Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean

Reuters ^ | December 6, 2001 | Andrew Cawthorne

[jackbob]

There's no need to feel threatened when evidence arises that changes how we see the world and the past.

Very interesting. It seems that we have only slightly scratched the surface of the wonders yet to be discovered here on this small rock earth. You provide a service to FR, bringing out this topic, without jumping to some old (or new) speculative conclusion, as so often occurs with these types of discoveries.

[spycatcher]

Thanks for the good words. It often stresses people out if something they believe is challenged by new evidence -- and they get emotional or angry or just dismiss it. I try to stick with logic and allow for the possibility that new evidence may contradict my worldview. Scientists can be much worse than Bible believers when it comes to that. Unprofessional scientists use smear tactics and spin against perceived enemies as often as the Democrats.

The preliminary evidence here at least rules out the conclusion that there is absolutely nothing to the find -- especially when you read the background info about the pre-Columbian inscriptions that appear to be on the stones.

[spycatcher]

I think you're talking about the "Bimini Road."

From a USA Today article:

"Most of the skeptics I have read are of the 'Atlantis is impossible' variety, and have never done any exploration in the area at all," says Doug Richards, a geologist who has carried out research and written papers for the Meridian Institute, a Virginia Beach, Va., organization that sponsors research into the connection between mind and body. "I think that most likely it is a natural formation, but neither side of the debate has done the work necessary to prove it one way or the other."

Richards says at least part of the Bimini Road may be man-made. "For example, there are large stones balanced on top of smaller stones," he says. "Beachrock does not form that way naturally, so if it is beachrock, it appears to have been moved by humans. There is also a circle of stones that looks nothing like a natural beachrock formation."

[Goldi-Lox]

Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, predicted that the lost city of Atlantis would be found around the time of the new century. His prophecy rate is in the 90% range. He died in 1947, and there are still many prophecy's that have not yet occurred. More info about him, his healing work, and his prophecys at A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment, in Virginia Beach, VA.)

[Green Knight]

Didn't Edgar Cayce also say that California would sink into the ocean before 1998? Damn shame that didn't come true... (Just kidding, California FReepers. :P)

Sorry, but I'm just a bit skeptical of Edgar Cayce. Though I do believe that there was an Atlantis. Seems to me that all these underwater cities that people are finding all disappeared at the same time. Evidence of the Flood? Maybe. The timing does seem about right to me. Either way, I've always been a great fan of history, and a new discovery is always a great thing. I enjoy seeing the mysteries of the past being unraveled.

[Straight Vermonter]

The intriguing discovery provided evidence that Cuba at one time was joined to mainland Latin America via a strip of land from the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers said.

[Wm Bach]

Dr. Pangloss, we've found your El Dorado.

Hey, maybe Edgar Cayce WASN'T a complete whack job...

...nahhhhhh.

[D2BAH]

Impossible. My son-in-law is a Christian fundamentalist and says the world has only been here for 5000 years max. Even the Grand Canyon was "created" in no time flat. Carbon dating is a hoax--untrue, inaccurate, and purely an attempt by atheistic scientists to disprove the bible. All the generally accepted views of millions and billions of years having been involved in universe history and the age of the earth is baloney. So, you see, my grandchildren are getting a solid foundation in common sense. How nice.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[valhallasone]

It is a better thing to cultivate wonder at the mysteries of the real world, rather than to besot the imagination with idle fantasies...

That's right, because there is no use imagining what Troy was like. And heaven knows that Hissilick where Dergfeld (sp?) and Schliemann dug could not be Troy, because there was no mention of Troy before Homer and Homer just made all that wacky stuff up to sell books and make money. It was like a Spielberg production.

Might as well toss Herodotus and Thucydides out as sources too. I mean what over active imaginations? No one wrote about some fabled Persian invasion of Greece before... and mice eating the Persian bowstrings? Man, it's all fantasy. We should just focus on what's on now. Where's the remote control?

[BCR #226]

if nothing else, there wasn't any contact between the west and east hemispheres!

Actually, there is evidence that there was contact between the east and west hemispheres. Scientists have discovered ruins of ancient statues of men with beards in South America that date back thousands of years. They have also discovered similar busts and statues of people with European features in the south Atlantic in places like Easter Island, and a few other places.

Artifacts have also been discovered in these places that don't fit with the geological background. Many scientists believe these artifacts are European in origin.

Mike

[Ridin' Shotgun]

'It often stresses people out if something they believe is challenged by new evidence -- and they get emotional or angry or just dismiss it.'

Too true. No need to go back 6000 years for that. Most people can't remember/agree/accept anything but the PC version of history from 200 years ago.

Enjoyed the article and links. Bookmarked. Thanks.

For a REAL good read ... try Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" and "Earth in Upheaval". These two books (+ 'Ages in Chaos') turned the scientific world on its ear back in the 50's. He was hounded for going outside the circle, but now a good deal of his theory is accepted/proven (credidted to others).

[lavrenti]

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

There was another submurged potential megalith site off the coast of Japan.

Hopefully the New Orleans police is on the case regarding nameless cults and that our mental health authorities is on the look-out for sensitive artists creating manifestations of terrible gods. Iä! Iä!

Big trouble in little Innsmouth, anyone?

[lavrenti]

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

There was another submurged potential megalith site off the coast of Japan.

Hopefully the New Orleans police is on the case regarding nameless cults and that our mental health authorities is on the look-out for sensitive artists creating manifestations of terrible gods. Iä! Iä!

Big trouble in little Innsmouth, anyone?

[bwteim]

Interesting link, thanks.

[blam]

"Hey I just posted that! Thanks anyhow, but what I couldn't find was the Free Republic post of that same article from a couple of weeks ago."

It's bookmarked on my profile page. Sorry, don't know how to link.

[freedomson]

Not 5000 years, but 6 to 7 thousand years. I bet you feel real superior to a naive, dumb believer in fairy tales, huh? Just remember that:

"All of mans wisdom, is but foolishness in the eyes of the Lord"

[blam]

"It's a lot of fun to imagine a great ancient city lost beneath the waves, but that's all it is. The fact remains, there was no record of the Atlantis myth anywhere, ever, in any language, before Plato's stories."

They called Henrich Schleimann an idiot for using Homer's The Illiad as a guide to finding Troy.....until he found it. Then, they called him brilliant.

[blam]

"Why are the ancient Chapapoya Indians of Peru blond-haired then?"

Do you have any more info on this subject? I had a Colombian employee once tell me that they are still there in the high mountains of Colombia.

[ravingnutter]

It's bookmarked on my profile page. Sorry, don't know how to link.

Here you go:

Your link