Scott Cluthe's Love Cafe

Scott Cluthe interviews an extraordinary guest live from England tonight, Gavin Menzies, author of The Lost Empire of Atlantis. In his new book, THE LOST EMPIRE OF ATLANTIS, Gavin Menzies, the author of the worldwide bestseller 1421, reveals that Atlantis wasn’t just one island but an entire empire, controlled by the Minoans.   It’s long been known that this extraordinary civilisation, with its great palaces and sea ports based in Crete and nearby Thera (now called Santorini), had a level of sophistication that belied its place in the Bronze Age world but never before has the extent of its reach been uncovered.   Through painstaking research, including recent DNA evidence, Menzies has pieced together an incredible picture of a cultured people who traded with India and Mesopotamia, Africa and Western Europe, including Britain and Ireland, and even sailed to North America.   Menzies reveals that copper found at Minoan sites can only have come from Lake Superior, and that it was copper, combined with tin fr