High-tech search company claims to have found Atlantis

nypost ^ | November 29, 2018 | 4:24pm | Updated | Mike Wehner, BGR

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

I think this is the right segment from a few years back -- at least this new group is looking *under* the water and in the correct time frame.

National Geographic Finding Atlantis 1 of 4

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Artemis Webb and MV=PY for the pings. Seems like a good one for the weekly Digest ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Artemis Webb and MV=PY for the pings. Seems like a good one for the weekly Digest ping.

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The area around the Doñana National Park, between Cadiz and Seville, as it was in the time of Atlantis.

KEYWORDS: atlantis; doggerland

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, that's right...

• Geoscientists Find Large Impact Crater in Greenland

Thanks texas booster. Here's the book again, Carolina Bays formed by ejecta:

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Rand Flem-Ath: Atlantis Under the Ice / Atlantis Blueprint - 04-13-13 WDTRG

[SunkenCiv]

The "Eye of the Sahara" is an impact crater, millions of years old, and isn't outside the Pillars of Hercules, and isn't under water; otherwise, it's a perfect match. ;^) I saw some vids on that, they'd come up in the related vids on the Roku YT app, for some reason (not sure what I'd been watching, but it wasn't related that I could see), and I watched it just to learn something about that impact crater. I don't recommend the "Bright Insight" guy on YT, but that was the first one I saw.

[bitt]

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[21twelve]

I forget how large Plato’s Atlantis was -but it was huge - a subcontinent, not just some island with a temple. I’m guessing that the “concrete” the guy saw is just conglomerate rock, or perhaps limestone (an old reef).

[SunkenCiv]

• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Earth's Richat Structure [2013]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 10-28-02 [2002]
• Geology Picture of the Week, June 23-30, 2002 [2002]

[discostu]

“Larger than Libya and Asia together”. Now I don’t think the Greek concept of Asia was as big as ours, but yeah that’s still going to be a big island. With a bunch more near it. Basically Australia, only in the North half of the Atlantic.

[SunkenCiv]

Like the rest of mankind you have suffered from convulsions of nature, which are chiefly brought about by the two great agencies of fire and water. The former is symbolized in the Hellenic tale of young Phaethon who drove his father's horses the wrong way, and having burnt up the earth was himself burnt up by a thunderbolt. For there occurs at long intervals a derangement of the heavenly bodies, and then the earth is destroyed by fire... This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent... there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. -- Timaeus by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Project Gutenberg Etext #1572

...nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them... Atlantis, which, as I was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean. -- Critias by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Project Gutenberg Etext #1571

[DouglasKC]

I read Atlantis under the Ice a couple of weeks ago. Interesting theories....have read a bunch of books about crustal displacement..Hapgood of course and a few others. A good fictional book about that is “The HAB Theory”...excellent read.

[Rebelbase]

The traded with DryLand.

[vannrox]

Actually, the theory about the pole shift causing a relocation of Atlantis is a strong one. it is one that I personally like. Especially given the typography of Antarctica.

[TXnMA]

Well, why not check it out with Google Earth?

Sure enough, Google Earth does show a pattern of circles similar to the layout shown in one of the article's computer graphics:

Of course, the circles on Google Earth appear to be ponds. I have no idea how the "discoverers" claim to correlate ponds with stone structures...

(BTW, if you want to check this out for yourselves, the coordinates are

37.054662° -6.327863°

Have fun!
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[TXnMA]

DUH!!! Stupid TXnMA!!

I neglected to use Google Earth's "time slider" to check back into the past!

Since the circles are not apparent on Google Earth prior to the 4/2010 Google Earth satellite overflight...

...I'm beginning to have some doubts as to their dating back to the time of Plato's "Atlantis"... '-)

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Did Bruce Blackburn's company, "Merlin Burrows" get snookered by a modern counterpart to bogus "crop circles"?

You have the coordinates. Check it out for yourselves!

LOL!! Even for me, this may be a record time for validating -- and bombing -- an "Atlantis" theory in which someone obviously invested considerable time and computer graphics work ...

SMH...
TXnMA
 

[SunkenCiv]

Nice job, nice followup!