[SunkenCiv]

> dating between the 16th and 12th centuries BC...

and Plato put Atlantis in a different place and 8400 years earlier. So, no.

https://www.google.com/search?q=etna+tsunami+site%3Afreerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2F

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doggerland/index

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, make that 6900 years.

[BlueDragon]

"...but only a comet hitting "very close to the coast and in a very specific direction" could have created a wall of water 1,640 feet high>'

Earthquake generated tsunami travels at greater speed than wide-waves (i think that's what we've been told) and do not have to be 1,600 feet high to wash over land of the same elevation.

I admit I'm assuming that land elevation was what the hail (Atlantis) Frau was talking about...

[SunkenCiv]

the Etna landslide:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/atlityam/index

[CutePuppy]

Isn’t Santorini / Thera more commonly potentially considered to have been Atlantis?

[BenLurkin]

Still very cool stuff.

That is an interesting civilization. Makes me wish I could charter a time traveling helicopter and fly over the various nuraghi to see what they looked like in their prime.

[blam]

I wonder what Sardinia looked like about 7-8,000 years ago before the Mediterranean ‘re-filled’ with water after the Ice Age? I went there in 1963...and Malta. I remember it being dry.