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Explorers on the trail of Lost City of Atlantis
Telegraph ^
| October 27, 2003
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 10/26/2003 4:16:51 PM PST by sarcasm
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posted on
10/26/2003 4:16:51 PM PST
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
Let me guess: they are trying to find a link between what happened to Atlantis and the Bush family.
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posted on
10/26/2003 4:18:58 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: sarcasm
The evidence for a connection between Plato's Atlantis and the actual historical Minoan civilization is enormous. Plato drew on a report of an account in an Egyptian archive, and it appears that the numbers got upped by a factor of ten through a translation error.
Thus, Atlantis was not in the Atlantic, it was ten times closer, on the island of Crete. The dimensions of Atlantis are those of Crete, reduced by a factor of ten. The heyday of Minoan civilization was 900 years before Plato -- a factor of ten less than the 9000 years that Atlantean civilization was supposed to have existed.
The clincher is that Minoan civilization was destroyed overnight by tidal waves from the largest volcanic explosion in human history . . . which of course is a remarkable coincidence with the Atlantis legend.
Minoan civilization was advanced when the Greeks were in diapers. The Minoans were poised to dominate western civilization and culture. Then God stepped in.
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posted on
10/26/2003 4:27:35 PM PST
by
JoeSchem
To: sarcasm
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posted on
10/26/2003 4:29:43 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: Paul Atreides
Correct, the ancient Bush wouldn't sign the Athen's Treaty that banned the spread of fire, which caused gobal warming which caused the oceans to rise which caused Atlantis to sink under the waves.
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posted on
10/26/2003 4:41:57 PM PST
by
sticker
To: sarcasm
I'm only surprised that Ballard didn't get his name in here somewhere, he usually finds a way to horn in on all the big-publicity deep-sea projects.
This would sure be a kick in the rear to that guy in Cleveland who just came out with his revelation that Atlantis was near Cyprus.
To: JoeSchem
Sounds like a good theory to me -- By Jove, I think you've got it!
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posted on
10/26/2003 5:03:34 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: sarcasm
A golden age continued for centuries, but eventually corruption got the better of its inhabitants and the gods punished them by submerging Atlantis.Must have been about the time attorneys and politicians came on the scene.
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posted on
10/26/2003 5:18:58 PM PST
by
varon
To: sarcasm
I never did buy that Santorini bit. They're looking in the right place. But Atlantis wasn't just a small inconsequential island. It was big.
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posted on
10/26/2003 5:27:29 PM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Truth is a relentless searchlight!)
To: JoeSchem
Is anything known about the language of the Minoan civilization, i.e. what their name for their island, city-state was? Is this where the Linear A tablets were found?
To: WoofDog123
the name of the island the minoans lived on was crete. that was where the linear b tablets are found
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posted on
10/26/2003 5:54:41 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: KellyAdmirer
Or that French fellow who is looking for it in the waters off Cuba and the Bahamas.
On the other hand, Troy was just a faded greek legend till a few decades ago.
To: farmfriend; RightWhale; sarcasm
"To see if Stone Age people could have crossed the strait, he made a map of what the coastline looked like at that time, when the sea level was 420ft lower than today. Notice that this guy says the oceans were reduced in depth by 420 feet during the Ice Age.
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posted on
10/26/2003 6:26:25 PM PST
by
blam
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posted on
10/26/2003 6:27:46 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: JoeSchem
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posted on
10/26/2003 6:30:12 PM PST
by
blam
To: JoeSchem
"Thus, Atlantis was not in the Atlantic, it was ten times closer, on the island of Crete. The dimensions of Atlantis are those of Crete, reduced by a factor of ten. The heyday of Minoan civilization was 900 years before Plato -- a factor of ten less than the 9000 years that Atlantean civilization was supposed to have existed." I prefer not to change the legend to fit my ideas. I find it more rewarding to 'work' my ideas around the original legend.
* Generally I have found that the more distant in the past, the less we know about things. This works for Atlantis...all we know is something handed down from an Egyptian priest in 360BC.
* 9,000 years ago was the end of the last Ice Age, enormous changes were occurring with the shifting of the weigh of the melting ice. There would be great earthquakes, volcanos and floods. A good time for a civilization and large areas of land to disappear.
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posted on
10/26/2003 6:50:10 PM PST
by
blam
To: SandfleaCSC
Here is a link to the latest update on the underwater site off the coast of Cuba.
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posted on
10/26/2003 6:57:59 PM PST
by
blam
To: JoeSchem
Agreed. It appears to me someone is fishing for Nat Geo or Discovery contract.
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posted on
10/26/2003 7:01:57 PM PST
by
Bob J
To: blam
all we know is something handed down from an Egyptian priest in 360BC. Plato wrote around 450BC and Solon Lived around 1500BC.
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10/26/2003 7:04:00 PM PST
by
Bob J
To: Bob J
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