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In Edge of Remembrance, General Gareth Heksoth leads his renegade forces, the Sett, to overthrow the existing ruling body, the Auser (Osiris). His actions were not popular with the Kemeti people. For the protection of his troops, Heksoth set up camp in the Nubian Desert, in what is now modern day Northern Sudan.

The ancient city of Onn was later called "Heliopolis" by the Greeks, and is now part of Cairo. This is across the Nile, and not far from the Giza Plateau, where the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and ancient Valley Temple reside. It is in the midst of that plateau that Merla and Neria Volsinii placed the last archival records of Atlan.

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LAND OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES
According to Plato, the Tyrrhenian Sea included some of the colonies of Atlantis. In the novel, Pel es Androsa stood halfway up the coast of Sardinia (opposite side of the island from modern Oristano). Pel es Marmara was placed a short distance east of Cagliari, and Merla's Pel es Atenai was only a short distance north of Capo Carbonara, the southeastern point of Sardinia.

During that era, sea levels were likely two hundred feet lower than they are today. If Gibraltar Strait was blocked, as it had been 5–7 million years earlier, sea levels may have been stable over a long period of time. Instead, if the Mediterranean was connected to the great oceans beyond, then sea levels would have risen perpetually over many thousands of years. In the novel, the strait is an isthmus, and does not break until many years after Merla is gone. This may be nothing more than a story telling convenience. It allows the Atlani colonial pels to be built along the coast, at locations that are now far under water. And during that era, Sardinia and Corsica were one island, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait only three or four miles across.

According to tradition, Odysseus of Homeric fame, journeyed around the Tyrrhenian, meeting many strange and magical people. Did he meet the children of ancient technology — the children of Atlantis?

The Etruscans of Northern Italy have their own mystery. Their origins have still not been solved with any great certainty. There are some traits that seem to link them to the Basques of Western Europe, but the threads are tenuous at best. They include cultural, linguistic, and genetic links, but no one item strong enough to hold the connection certain.

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FIRST CITY OF THE ATLANTIC AND THE ENIGMATIC BASQUES
Much has been written about the heritage of the Basques. A great deal of controversy and violence have swirled around the subject. Some have claimed that the Basques are related to the artists who painted the famous caves of Western Europe. Such a claim would place the Basque ancestry in that region of Europe as much as 40,000 years ago, and neighbors to the ill-fated Neanderthal.

Today, most Basques are content to live out their productive lives along the pleasant coast of the Bay of Biscay (Viscaya, or Basque).

In Southern Spain, another ancient landmark stands on the Atlantic coast, not far from Gibraltar. This is the "grandfather" city of Cádiz, founded by the Phoenicians, some say, as early as 1100 BCE.

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ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD
The Americas have their pyramids, and much has been written about connections between these and their Egyptian counterparts. Much of it has been far from convincing. Yet it must be remembered that lack of proof does not disprove any hypothesis. To dismiss such a hypothesis on those grounds is short-sighted, and perhaps arrogant, at best. Certainly such an attitude is unscientific, but scientists are human, and tend to crave closure. It is perhaps easier to dismiss an uncomfortable hypothesis rather than hold it open and in limbo for an indeterminate period of time.

The novel places Gunter Jürgens's myth-shattering find near a town called "Puerta de Cráneos" (gate of skulls). There is no such town, but there is a city called "Puerto Cabezas" (heads door), on the Caribbean coast. Managua, the capital, near the Pacific coast, is the location for the story's archaeological receiving laboratory.