Legendary Lost City of Atlantis Found in......
Legendary Lost City of Atlantis Found in Southern Spain, Archeologists Claim
March 15th, 2011, In Legend, Travel, by Tom
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In the mysterious world of urbex and abandoned cities, none are more iconic – or debated – than the lost city of Atlantis. Described by Plato in 360BC as an island lying in front of the Pillars of Hercules, thousands of years of searching historically found nothing despite promising archeological discoveries. But now, researchers claim to have located Atlantis in the wetlands of southern Spain, despite the feeling among many scholars that the city was nothing more than a Greek myth or fantastical urban legend.
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Using Plato’s writings as his starting point, Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut, used deep-ground radar, digital mapping and satellite imagery to locate what he called “one of the largest and most ancient cities at the bottom of a huge marsh”, north of Cadiz in Spain’s Donaña National Park. The resulting documentary, Finding Atlantis, was screened by National Geographic in the U.S. on Sunday.
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Freund’s theory hinges on Plato’s assertion that Atlantis was destroyed by a “natural disaster”, believed to be a tsunami, in 9,000BC: “This is the power of tsunamis,” Freund told the Daily Telegraph. “It is so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that’s pretty much what we’re talking about.” Freund also claimed that refugees fleeing the tsunami established “memorial cities” in central Spain.
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The find – the latest among a surge of discoveries fueled by Atlantis-mania over the years – could be the most compelling evidence yet that the lost city really existed. But like many ground breaking archeological finds, controversy is never far away. The film’s claims were dismissed Monday as scientifically unreliable while Professor Freund was accused of sensationalising the work of a team of Spanish scientists led by anthropologist Juan Villarías-Robles. The Spanish team did, however, confirm what appeared to be a sunken city, with conclusions expected later this year.
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Plato described Atlantis as being a large continent the size of Africa and Europe combined, not as a city. If there was a submerged continent in the Atlantic ocean we would have found it already, seeing as we have now mapped Earths ocean floors. There is only one candidate, the American continent.
At the end of the last ice age the sea levels rose dramatically flooding many coastal areas. Most cities and settlements are on coast lines. There was also a whole series of large floods in America caused by water building up behind ice dams. It would have made most low lying areas in America uninhabitable swamps.
Plato also describes Atlantis as being ‘beyond the pillars of Hercules’ (Gibralta gap) in the Atlantic ocean. Not as ‘an island in front of the pillars of Hercules’.
Someone posted the link to Google Earth about a year ago that did Indeed show what looks like a civilised grid layout under the sea, West of Gibraltar. It didn’t generate much excitement at the time….. I looked and yes, it did appear to be there and not a naturally occuring geological pattern. My thought is this, just one of many Cities/lands once occupied by our veryvery ancient ancestors in a time when the sea and the continents were totally different. There are literally hundreds of similar sites all across the Earth many underwater, especially around India, are these Atlantis too?? My own research has concluded that Atlantis is actually under what we know today as the Antarctic and wasn’t always cold and wasn’t always the South Pole…. another reason why every country under the Sun seems to have more than a passing interest in this apparently hostile, uninhabited desolate spot thousands of miles from any where…. Yes there’s the telescopes all apparently tracking planet X, even one funded by the Catholic Church (probably linked to their own satellite) but surely that’s not the whole picture of our interest in Antarctica.
Pix, You are a walking encyclopedia. I appreciate your correction. Thanks