Explorers on the trail of Lost City of Atlantis

Telegraph ^ | October 27, 2003 | Roger Highfield

[Paul Atreides]

Let me guess: they are trying to find a link between what happened to Atlantis and the Bush family.

[JoeSchem]

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.

[ckilmer]

if they greeks first heard about it from the egyptians then the egyptians would have been referring to the minoeans on the island of crete. that civilization traded with the egyptians for 1000 years or so until it was destroyed in about 1500 bc by the eruption of santorini
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/AtlantisDestruction.html
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/TsunamiSantorin.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/minoan_02.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/minoan_01.shtml
http://www.decadevolcano.net/santorini/santorini.htm

[sticker]

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.

[KellyAdmirer]

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.

[expatpat]

Sounds like a good theory to me -- By Jove, I think you've got it!

[varon]

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.

[Savage Beast]

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.

[WoofDog123]

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?

[ckilmer]

the name of the island the minoans lived on was crete. that was where the linear b tablets are found

[SandfleaCSC]

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.

[blam]

"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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[blam]

The Search For Atlantis 'Ends At Ayia Napa' (Cyprus)

[blam]

"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.

[blam]

Here is a link to the latest update on the underwater site off the coast of Cuba.

[Bob J]

Agreed. It appears to me someone is fishing for Nat Geo or Discovery contract.

[Bob J]

all we know is something handed down from an Egyptian priest in 360BC.

Plato wrote around 450BC and Solon Lived around 1500BC.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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