Is This the Comet That Sank Atlantis and Created World Wide Flood Legends

An international team of scientists has discovered nanosize diamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, according to a study presented in the Journal of Glaciology. The diamonds, which number in the trillions and are so tiny that they can only be observed with special, highly magnifying microscopes, add credence to the controversial hypothesis that fragments of a comet struck North America and Europe approximately 12 900 years ago. 

Several scientists consider the disappearance of Atlantis to be the result of a comet or asteroid that hit the earth. Provided that such an object hit the earth, these assumptions would also be able to explain the global appearance of Flood legends and legends concerning the end of the world at the very beginning of mankind. But which comet was it? 

The German scientist Otto Muck who died in 1965 and held about 200 patents elaborated his theory that Atlantis was located across the mid-Atlantic Ridge and sank right there after the impact of an asteroid in his book Atlantis Uber Alles, and in English, The Secret of Atlantis (free on Scribd)  Muck assumed that the extraterrestrial object (surrounded by several smaller projectiles) came from a northwestern direction hit the “Carolina Bays“, then crashed into the Atlantic Ocean and thereby left the deep-sea crater.

Carolina Bays as seen from the air, believed by Muck to have been created by comet that struck Atlantis

Credit: The Secret of Atlantis

After the impact, he assumed, tremendous underwater volcanic eruptions would have occurred exactly where the tectonic plates of the mid-Atlantic Ridge where joined together. When the plates became separated, ocean water came into touch with magma. The resulting explosions caused the island of “Atlantis“ to explode and the remnants sank in the clefts and hollows just created.

Figure illustrates Muck’s theory of how Atlantis sank after volcanic eruptions were set off by a comet strike. 

Credit: The Secret of Atlantis

Temples in steps on both sides of the Atlantic. Above: reconstitution of the sanctuary of Marduk in Babylon (about 600 BC), the “Temple of the Apparitions” (Esangila) left, and the tower in steps, “Etemananki” in the walled courtyard of the temple. Below: reconstruction of the temple complex of Copán, Honduras, dating from about 200 to 500 AD Salta eyes the “relationship” between the sanctuary and the Mayan temple of Babylonian Marduk. The civilization of Atlantis, the oldest, could have influenced the buildings of  towers from Mesopotamia to Central America according to Muck.

Credit: Otto Muck, The Secret of Atlantis

But what extraterrestrial object would be needed to sink such a vast landmass like Atlantis? Muck started calculating with the help of static samples collected from about 10 000 hollows with an average diameter of 500 metres. He came to th econclusion that the object in question must have been 10 kilometres wide and its impact must have been as powerful as thirty thousand tons of nitroglycerine or 3 000 medium level H-bombs. Muck thought that this was the reason for the creation of the furrows on the ground of the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean area and the Gulf of Mexico. Moreover, he held the view that the impact also caused the shifting of the poles. That was the beginning of a new geological age and the seasons became clearly separated from each other.

With his book “The Secret of Atlantis“ Muck caused a lot of sensation although many of his theses have not been proven so far. For example, no traces of a catastrophic change of the tectonic plates have been found on the Atlantic Ridge. In addition, the Carolina Bays have not proven home of any melted quartzes which would invite the inference of an extraterrestrial impact. Nevertheless, Muck probably found the key to the doom of Atlantis – comets or asteroids. More and more researchers agree on the assumption that the Carolina Bays have not been affected by a direct comet impact on the earth but that a comet exploded above the area and the resulting blasts left behind the bays. This thesis was supported by the unresolved Tunguska explosion in Sibiria on June 30, 1908.

This cosmic impact would also explain the multiple Flood legends in Central America and on the Antilles. Accordingly, we have a new candidate for our search for Atlantis.

Halley’s Comet

Credit: NASA

Links related to sinking of Atlantis as a result of comet strike. 

Atlantis, A Journey of Old Cultures

The Secret of Atlantis by Otto Muck, a well illustrated book that is at least a lot of fun. 

ASTEROID CATASTROPHE:  Did an asteroid destroy Atlantis? By R. Cedric Leonard

Original title: “Über Alles Atlantis