Theories
There have also been theories, although the "lost continents" of Lemuria and Mu are considered to be falsified by plate tectonics.
- Nan Madol was one of the sites James Churchward identified as being part of the lost continent of Mu, starting in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man.
- In his book Lost City of Stones (1978) writer Bill S. Ballinger theorizes the city was built by Greek sailors 300 years before the time of Christ.
- David Hatcher Childress, an author of travel guides, speculates that Nan Madol is connected to the lost continent of Lemuria.
- The 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, which predicts that global warming might produce sudden and catastrophic climatic effects, claims that the construction of Nan Madol, with exacting tolerances and extremely heavy basalt materials, necessitated a high degree of technical competency. Since no such society exists in the modern record - or, even, in legend - this society must have been destroyed by dramatic means.
- See also the book by Erich Von Daniken "the gold of the gods", 1972.
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