Posted on 12/01/2018 6:37:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
Now, with a suite of high-tech hardware at its disposal, a company called Merlin Burrows believes it might have finally pinpointed the location where the city once stood....
Bruce Blackburn says his company used satellite data to comb an area that the group believed may have been the location of the thriving city. Their work began years ago and, according to Blackburn, the location was chosen based on Plato’s writings as well as other texts.
The spot, which is located near the coast in Spain’s Doñana National Park, was subsequently searched for clues. Merlin Burrows says it was then that the company found what it believes is remains of temples and towers. Dating of the material, which is thought to be early concrete, suggested it was between 10,000 and 12,000 years old, which would fit the rough timeline of when Atlantis is said to have existed.
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Either that guy is Santa Claus or he needs a haircut.
The Phoenicians were from the present-day Lebanon region. They founded Carthage and other cities in the far-western Mediterranean, which may be what you are thinking of.
The Atlantic Civ was long before ... somewhere before 3500bc
Well, I think that is revealing. Guess we will see if this may have some merit.
SunkenCiv posted a discussion about a large impact in Greenland, and subsequent “splash” impacts as a result.
All about 10,400 years ago.
Atlantis was a thought experiment by Plato. It never existed, and can’t be found.
Nope. Atlantis is 100% FICTION. Now some other city on a bad island might have sunk, islands do that. But it ain’t Atlantis.
I don’t know about that. I just reread it and there’s just way too much detail in there for it to be a thought experiment. Seems like he could have accomplished the same thing without going into such detail.
Nope. Atlantis is 100% FICTION.
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People said the same of Troy. Then it was unearthed. We haven’t discovered all the lost cities yet. Trust Plato.
Sea levels were 300 to 400 feet lower than they are today, 12,000 years ago.
Great! I might get to have a Minotaur after all.
Of course all of the “Troys” we’ve found are just cities that got in big wars.
I do trust Plato. Having actually READ Timaeus and Critius I understand that they were his version of Atlas Shrugged and there’s no more an Atlantis than there is a Galts Gulch.
Ayn Rand didn’t have to write a 60 page speech either. But they were both trying to prove similar points about styles of government and beat their particular horse pretty hard.
Plato located Atlantis “beyond the Pillars of Hercules”, the Straits of Gibraltar. That would eliminate Santorini but the west coast of southern Spain would fit.
Too remote. Has to be close enough to Athens to allow Atlantis to attack.
That’s the area this Brit firm is looking at:
“Experts at Merlin Burrows believe the flooded ruins of the legendary city are off the coast of southern Spain.
“The location is somewhere north of the city of Cadiz, Andalucía, centred around the Doñana National Park, which the historians believe was once a vast inland sea.
Thought concrete was invented by Romans. Italians told me that when I was in the Pantheon in Rome........
BBB
I hear Minotaur burgers are good.
That would be OK too. I wonder if any of them were fed GM corn. That would be a real let-down.
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