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64 Is There Evidence That Atlantis Was Real?

Physical Evidence That

Some Historians Think
Proves Atlantis Was Real

by Katia Kleyman

The lost city of Atlantis was first mentioned in
Plato’s dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. What
happened to Atlantis, if it existed at all, remains
a mystery. According to Plato, the island nation
existed close to 10,000 B.C. Its inhabitants
supposedly created an advanced utopian society,
but they flew too close to the sun and were
ultimately punished by the wrath of angry gods.
Many speculate, however, that Atlantis is simply
a myth, an allegory created by Plato based on
massive floods or destruction in the past.

Legend has it that the technologically advanced
city sank into the sea and was lost in time for
thousands of years. In the 19th century, the
notion that Atlantis was an actual city became
Atlantis Was Actually In The Bahamas Professor Richard Freund, while working on a
popular, and scientists and archeologists alike
documentary for National Geographic, traveled
became determined to find it. Whether or not
Steadfast Atlantis believers claim that the island to Andalusia and discovered evidence of Atlantis
you believe Atlantis existed, the theories about
nation could have existed in another part of the within the marshlands of Doñana National Park.
it's possible location are pretty fascinating.
world entirely, nowhere near ancient Greece. The team found memorial cities built by
Some Atlantis believers think that Bimini Road, residents of Atlantis who possibly fled inland
Santorini Could Have Been The
an underwater rock formation off Bimini Island after disaster struck the city. Freund and his
Original Atlantis students speculate that Atlantis was destroyed by
in the Bahamas, could be a link to Atlantis.
Because the rocks have a clean-cut rectangular a tsunami based on studies published by
One of the most logical theories about Atlantis shape, some believe they're evidence of ancient researchers. However, those same researchers
posits that it was the ancient Greek island of structures. In Quest for Atlantis: Startling New have dismissed Freunds conclusions, stating that
Thera, which is modern day Santorini. Some Secrets, Greg Little claimed that he and a group he misconstrued their work.
3,600 years ago a massive volcano erupted and of researchers found another layer of rock under
claimed part of the island. Geologists say that Bimini Road that dates back to 10,000 B.C., the Antarctia Could Have Hosted Atlantis
Santorini’s topography matches up with the time Plato said Atlantis existed.
topography in Plato’s description Based on a theory called Earth Crustal
Stone Anchors In Gibraltar May Be Displacement, a civilization may have existed in
The Antikythera Mechanism Was Too
Remnants Of An Atlantis Port Antarctica near the Ross Ice Shelf before the Ice
Advanced To Be From Anywhere But Age. The Piri Res map, a very rough outline of
Atlantis Plato claimed that Atlantis was located at the the world compiled in 1513 by an Ottoman
admiral and cartographer, is proof to some that
"Pillars of Hercules,” which is the ancient name
The Antikythera mechanism is a mysterious for an area near the Strait of Gibraltar. The Antarctica was free of ice at the time of the
device found inside a shipwreck that dates back James Cameron-produced documentary Atlantis map's creation. Many say the belief relies on
to 100 B.C. The machine, which has been called Rising showed ancient anchors discovered in the pseudoscience. The Earth Crustal Displacement
the world’s first computer, is most likely an Strait of Gibraltar, which could be evidence of theory posits that the continent could have
astronomical clock. The hands display the an Atlantis port. “If we found six on a few dives, shifted so far from its original location that
celestial time of the sun, moon, and each of the there must be thousands out there, confirming although it may have originally been near
five visible planets. The gears and engineering Plato's account of a port just past the Pillars of ancient Greece, what was formerly Atlantis is
that went into the device were not seen again for Hercules,” said the documentary filmmaker, now buried beneath ice in Antarctica.
over 1000 years. Because Atlantis was described Simcha Jacobovici.
as a highly technologically advanced society, Monolithic Structures In Ireland
some consider the Antikythera mechanism to be Rock Etchings In Southern Spain Match Atlantis's Description
a relic of Atlantis. Show People Fleeing From A Flood
Ulf Erlingsson is a Swedish geographer who
The Discovery Of Mythological Metal thinks that Plato’s inspiration actually came
In Atlantis Rising, Georgeos Diaz-Montexano
In A Shipwreck Could Have Come claims that some inhabitants of Atlantis were from a presently intact island: Ireland. "Just like
From Atlantis able to flee onto the Iberian Peninsula and settle Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles
wide, and features a central plain that is open to
into what is now known as Campanario, Spain.
the sea," said Erlingsson. "I have looked at
In Critias, Plato describes Atlantis as a city Rock carvings found on a site in Campanario
shimmering with the red light of orichalcum, a show images of boats and horses being geographical data of the whole world. Of the 50
precious metal. In 2015, a group of marine overcome by waves. Other features of the rock largest islands, Ireland is the only one that
archeologists found 39 orichalcum ingots, or etchings, such as the concentric circular matches Plato's description of the landscape," he
oblong blocks of metal, in a shipwreck from the structure of the illustrated city, are consistent added. He also used Ireland’s megalithic
6th century B.C. off the coast of Sicily. with Plato’s telling of Atlantis. monuments as further evidence. Erlingsson
thinks that while Plato exaggerated the utopian
Professor Sebastiano Tusa, an archeologist who
led the team said, “The discovery is unique and A Professor Discovered Memorial society, he did in fact base his allegory on a real
island.
exceptional because it's the first time that we've Cities
found orichalcum ingots.”
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