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Posted: 01-06-2010 21:26 Post subject:

A magnificent book on this subject is Lost Continents - The Atlantis Theme in History, Science and Literature by L. Sprague de Camp - Dover Publications - New York.

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Posted: 06-06-2010 05:04 Post subject: Atlantis Neighbors?

Here is my insight on Atlantis. Assuming that Plato's story is true; researchers should be looking for the neighbors. Atlantis was at war with ancient Athens and Egypt. Why haven't any researchers tried to find these civilizations? Also since the story originated at the Temple at Sais in Egypt. Researchers should be looking for this Temple. Which might have more evidence, and stories about Atlantis. The Atlantis story was much longer than what we have; but Plato only had or gave a portion of the legend. Smile

Posted: 06-06-2010 08:16 Post subject: Re: Atlantis Neighbors?

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Posted: 07-06-2010 08:26 Post subject:

Plato wasn't writing history, he's writing a didatic story. The 10,000 years ago is probably the ancient Greek equivalent, of "Once upon a time.." or "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..."

The eruption of Santorini/Thera and the disappearance of a civilization practically overnight, passed on slightly mangled in the oral history of the Mediterranean, is a more likely candidate than a super civilization has left absolutely no trace. (Athens didn't exist 10,000 years ago by the way)

When asked Tolkien once said that the events of LOTR were about 10,000 years ago, I don't think looking for the ruins of Mordor would be very useful...(though some have tried)

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There have also been suggestions that the ancient Egyptian records did not in fact refer to years but to lunar months, which brings the date of the destruction of Atlantis much closer to the Thera eruption.

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On a slight side note,tolkiens tale of numenor was inspired by atlantis and by a dream of a huge wave engulfing him which ceased when he finished the story.

Posted: 07-06-2010 13:07 Post subject:

Last time I went to Santorini the diggings at Akrotiri were closed for safety reasons, which was a bit disappointing- but they have a nice museum in Fira with full-size reproductions. The fresco wiith the fleet of ships is fascinating - a cartoon strip showing Bronze Age sea-going technology in some detail.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Minoan_fleet_freeze_from_Akrotiri_fragment.gif

This was a major civilisation on Thera, not just an obscure Minoan colony.

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Posted: 15-03-2011 11:14 Post subject:

Lost city of Atlantis 'buried in Spanish wetlands'
The lost city of Atlantis is buried under marshland on the South Atlantic coast of Spain, a new documentary has claimed.
By Edward Owen in Madrid 4:41PM GMT 14 Mar 2011

The film, Finding Atlantis, was screened by the National Geographic Channel in the US on Sunday and fronted by Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut.

Professor Freund explained how he led a pursuit to find the lost civilisation, believed by many to be an ancient Greek myth, by using deep-ground radar, digital mapping and satellite imagery.

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His film company, Associated Producers of Canada, added: "Besides identifying the location of the city, they discovered a stele that may have stood at the entrance to the ancient civilisation. It records the long lost symbol of Atlantis."

The film's claims however were on Monday dismissed as having no reliable basis in scientific fact and of misinterpreting partial results [from] an investigation by a team of distinguished Spanish scientists. Since 2005 they have been working on the site at a huge national park and bird sanctuary near Cadiz.

Juan Villarías-Robles, an anthropologist with the Spanish government's scientific research body, CSIC, says Professor Freund appeared [to have] sensationalised their work.
Mr Villarías-Robles was part of a team investigating ancient geomorphology and settlements in Donaña, Europe's largest wetlands.
He said satellite photos of Donaña's massive wetlands, west of Gibraltar, seemed to show buried rectangular buildings and concentric circles of a buried city near a beach.

"Richard Freund was a newcomer to our project and appeared to be involved in his own very controversial issue concerning King Solomon's search for ivory and gold in Tartessos, the well documented settlement in the Donaña area established in the first millennium BC.
"He became involved in what we were doing and provided funding for probes through his connections with National Geographic and Associated Producers.
"He left and the film company told us the documentary would be finished in April or May. But we did not hear from him and are very surprised it has appeared so soon and makes such fanciful claims."

Mr Villarías-Robles, who also dismissed claims of the "memorial cities", said his team planned to offer their own conclusions later this year

The theory that Atlantis is buried in the Spanish wetlands is the latest in a long line of suggested locations. In 2004, US ocean researchers said they were convinced they had found evidence of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. Others include various Mediterranean islands, Central America and even Antarctica.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html