Posted on 11/14/2004 6:57:47 PM PST by aculeus
A team of American ocean researchers said yesterday that they were convinced they had found evidence of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus.
The team used the latest sonar technology to create images of the sea bed a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean.
The expedition, led by Robert Sarmast, spent six days at sea surveying the area. "I am absolutely convinced I have found Atlantis," Mr Sarmast said, speaking on the deck of his research ship on his return to Limassol.
"The sonar images showed what appeared to be two straight walls each about a mile long at either end of a flat-topped hill where the city's temples would have been situated."
In addition to these apparently man-made structures the images also showed evidence of two streams that Mr Sarmast said had flowed from springs on the summit. These fed into a trench or canal bed, which seemed to run concentrically around the hill.
According to Mr Sarmast the latest evidence matches exactly the detailed description of Atlantis given by Plato.
"There are about 60 specific points that match Plato's account," he said. "How can you explain away a bunch of coincidences like this?"
Mr Sarmast, 38, from Los Angeles, admits he has no formal academic qualifications to substantiate his claims, which he acknowledges to be controversial. But having spent 10 years studying accounts of the lost city he is in no doubt about the importance of his find.
He says his next step will be to make a three-dimensional computer image from the sonar data before returning to the site for further research.
But Mr Sarmast is not alone in claiming to have found the site of the ancient city. Last June a German researcher produced evidence to support his assertion that Atlantis was once a coastal area of Spain, not far from Cadiz. Other recent theories have located the city near Cuba and off the coast of Devon.
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A couple of months ago it was Ireland. They need to find actual evidence of a civilization there.
Last year it was off the coast of Cuba. I wonder where it'll be next year?
3 to 1 that it's really Kerry's Campaign Plan down there...
When they find the Yette, they'll see that the lost city is the Yette's mountain hideaway.
I think it was a chain, like Pizza Hut.
---gee whiz---Clive Cussler was wrong---
Maybe Atlantis outsourced itself and that's why it keeps popping up all over the place.
Seriously, we all know it's really in another galaxy, but we'd have to get through the Wraiths first.
So, let's see if we can total this up...Is this person number 10,000 or person number 10,000,000 who has claimed to have found Atlantis? :o)
They might have found a lost island somewhere... but where do they have evidence it is Atlantis?
We need to drain Lake Michigan to find it
What I want to know is where these guys are getting all of the money to hunt for something that may never have existed! What if Plato just made it all up?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=atlantis&ok=Search&q=deep&m=all&o=time&SX=4198227995abaf8f4b7dabcb7ecff87aae3c82de
yeah, great, but well where in the he11 is the remote?
Are we talking about Atlantis or Jimmy Hoffa's body or perhaps Al Capone's hidden safes?
Ping
Either that, or it's the Rose Law Firm billing records along with the answer to "who hired Craig Livingstone"...
Great news! Can all those depressed liberals immigrate?
No, the alien ship that brought human-kind to this planey 7,000 years ago
.....NOT another one!
/re-incarnation
It could be that all the deeply submerged ruins are satellites of the main, perhaps near Cyprus ... the story goes that the civ of Atlantis carried on world-wide trade and made maps (some of which have been revealed) of the entire globe.
You guys weely quack me up! Thanks!
Thanks WaggleBee, I'll ping GGG a little later, probably from his one:
Atlantis Hunt Reveals Structures In Sea Off Cyprus
Reuters ^ | 11-13-2004
Posted on 11/13/2004 3:54:27 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279338/posts
We all know it is in the Pegasus galaxy
Well, it's sort of a submerged island. It keeps floating around from continent to continenet - sea to shining sea.
Atlantis, it seems, has became a title given to any submerged evidence of civilization that may have existed in the window of 5-10 thousand years ago. I think what will be confirmed is that mankind worldwide had fairly robust civilizations in many parts of the world at the end of the last ice age. I think that there is a high likelyhood that Atlantis in some form or another did exist but as of yet it has not been found in any definitive sense and it will probably be some time before it is.
Noah even traveled it in the world-wide flood!
Hmmmmmmmm....
Why would he do that?
You'll excuse me, I'm a writer of fictional things loosely based in facts.
And I had a rather spirited discussion of politics with the Tooth Fairy last night. By the way, TF wants everyone to know that she is not a gay man. Former NJ Governor McGreevey however is.
I knew, I left it somewhere around there.
"...no formal academic qualifications" is the best thing this guy had said yet.
I hear about Atlantis everywhere. I heard of it even in Antartica of all places.
Nonsense. Plato said it was a considerable continent broken by 3 major rivers. The Atlantic is named after Atlantis. The Atla in Meso-America is named after Atlantis.
The searches haven't found Atlantis because it is too far south now for them to look for it, and its name has been changed.
It is called Antartica!
We have to wait for the ice to melt or the earth's surface to shift or the angle to change to discover the truth.
There are at least two proofs Darwin was wrong.
1. Antarica is the home of mankind and civilization.
2. Darwin never met my cousins.
That's the most plausible explanation I've ever heard! Atlantis was a stinkin' franchise! No longer did men need to travel to the far corners of the earth to turn their slaves into animals, or to take that crystal-powered Zaren(R) brand death ray in for some factory scheduled maintenance! Yessir, there's an Atlantis(tm) coming to an antediluvian city near you!
Somebody call WHOI, get Ballard on the horn...
sonar scanning 50 miles southeast of Cyprus revealed man-made walls, one as long as 2 miles, and trenches at a depth of 1,640 yards.
"It is a miracle we found these walls as their location and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings," Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher."
"We found more than 60-70 points that are a perfect match with Plato's detailed description of the general layout of the acropolis hill of Atlantis (search). The match of the dimensions and the coordinates provided by our sonar with Plato's description are so accurate that, if this is not indeed the acropolis of Atlantis, then this is the world's greatest coincidence," he said.
Tests of that part of the seabed showed it had once been above sea level, he said.
"We cannot yet provide tangible proof in the form of bricks and mortar as the artifacts are still buried under several meters of sediment at a depth of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards), but the evidence is now irrefutable," he added.
Asked if the ruins could not be that of another city that sank beneath the waves, Sarmast said the remains match Plato's description of Atlantis so closely that they could not be anything else.
"If you compare it with Plato, you will be astonished," he said. "We hope that future expeditions will be able to uncover the sediment and bring back physical proof."
...and the Moon will be in the 7th House and Jupiter will align with Mars and peace will (?do something) to the planet...it is the 'Darning of the Agent of Saudi'ee-es'... (yuck, yuck)
Thats interesting. Go down, inflate a giant dome with air and let the excavators go to work. =o)
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If the temperate zones were where they are today--or even farther from the equator, the evidence has been largely buried or wiped out.
What we find today is mainly the remnants of equatorial civilizations, when those climates were more temperate and the remanants of the ice sheets were retreating, those remnants now are largely in desert or tropical climate regions because the climate changed when the ice sheets receeded.
Just my crackpot ideas...
If the temperate zones were where they are today--or even farther from the equator, the evidence has been largely buried or wiped out.
My God man, do you realize what you're saying? You're saying that the Earth, in its 4.5 billion year existence to date, might have warmed and cooled several times?
When we all now know, that its man rise that has caused the earth to warm. Unless of course you're right, then the enviro's will be able to point to Atlantis as being proof that man warmed up his climate before.... oh wait, we've had an ice age since then...
never mind...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled freep.
I think you are probably right but that would not fit with the conventional wisdom concerning human civilization. Sometimes today what scientists make up for in "intellect" they lack in imagination but eventually things will be dug up. I wouldn't be surprised to find that considerable "proof" of pre-ice age civilizations is not already in the coffers of many museums not that they have covered the proof up but that no one is really looking.
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