Atlantis found?

[anti-matter]

Well it was exciting when I first saw that picture but coming from a tabloid publication I didn't get worked up over it. Anyway I'm still willing to go out on a limb and say those are man made lines...

...and on the right and upper right looks like a runway pattern you'd see in most major cities.

 

[Zachary Smith]

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classical scholar Dr Peter Jones told the BBC: "Historically Atlantis is nonsense." He added that Plato was using a political allegory but also that he was very precise about the location of Atlantis. "It is an island in front of the straits of Gibraltar, and no such island exists," said Dr Jones. "This is pure invention. It's not history, it's not even myth, it is an allegory - a fabulous science-fiction superstate - a utopia, and ancient philosophers like Plato used allegories like this all the time."

Much as I hate to disagree with any professor named "Dr. Jones", he's wrong. Atlantis is the island of Santorini, destroyed by the eruption of the volano at its center (Thera) in approx 1500 BCE. In terms of distance, size, population and time-frame, it matches Plato's references for Atlantis except it's off by a factor of 10. It happened 900 not 9000 years before Plato's time etc. He got the story from Egypt and likely there was a misplaced decimal (a joke! The concept of the "zero" hadn't been invented yet so a factor of 10 mistake is not surprising). Santorini matches phyusical descriptions of Atlantis and DID. in fact, disappear into the sea literally over night. It was a major outpost of the Minoan Empire based on the island of Crete and very advanced for it's day, with multi-story buildings, indoor plumbing and hot water etc.

It was in the Aegean Sea, not the Atlantic and the remains of the major city of Akroteri can still be seen there today. Few artifacts and I think no bodies have been found there so the inhabitants abandoned it prior to the volcano erupting. Empty buildings and city streets, it was a ghost town when it died. They KNEW what was coming and hauled ass. Smart folks.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

and people still believe Troy was in Turkey when there's tons of evidence to suggest it was in fact in England near Cambridgeshire near the gog magog hills. There's always evidence and 'theories' about what place was from what story but there's never really any concrete evidence to say with 100% accuracy.