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Simcha Jacobovici, involved in the production of a documentary on Freund's work for the National Geographic Channel, stated that the biblical Tarshish ( which he believes is the same as Tartessos ) was Atlantis, and that " Atlantis was hiding in the Tanach ".

Aren Maeir, a professor of archeology at Bar-Ilan University said “ a lot of people have made many crazy claims about Atlantis – it ’ s one of those classic places where you have a lunatic fringe looking for all types of things.

And Richard Freund is known as someone who makes ‘ sensational ’ finds.

I would say that I am exceptionally skeptical about the thing, but I wouldn ’ t discount it 100 % until I see the details, which haven ’ t been published as far as I know ... every few years we hear something like this from him ... And the fact that it ’ s on National Geographic doesn ’ t mean much.

Unfortunately, over the past years they ’ ve had many questionable programs.

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