Maciej Kuczyński
, 1929 - 2019
A mountaineer, polar explorer, speleologist, architect, Polish writer and author of 30 books about travelling. He is also an author of documentary films and television programs. He worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences as a technical manager of scientific expeditions. Kuczyński provided commentaries to geographic and travel films, including the expeditions of Marek Kamiński, a famous Polish Polar explorer, to the North and the South Poles. In 1990 Kuczyński suggested how to decipher the records of biological knowledge of the Mesoamerican Indians contained in pre-Columbian pictorial codes in Mexico. In 1994, he published Atlantyda, jej tajemnice i odkrycia [Atlantis: Secrets and Discoveries] with his interpretation of symbols on the Phaistos Disc, proposing a hypothesis that the Disc is connected to Atlantis.
Sources:
"Maciej Kuczyński", racjonalista.pl (accessed: June 16, 2021).
"Maciej Kuczyński. 40 lat życia na wyprawach", odkrywcy.com (accessed: June 16, 2021).
"Maciej Kuczyński", theexplorersclubpolska.pl (accessed: June 16, 2021).
Bio prepared by Kruhlak, University of Warsaw, maria.kruhlak@al.uw.edu.pl
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