Please correct the title...fots should be fits. Thamks
Nah. I like Thera (Santorini) better.
I read a book, Eden in the East, that discusses this possibility. Utterly failed to make the case. Too much water on top of all the evidence there might be. Just letting ya know, don't spend your money on E in the E.
It has been proven for years that Atlantis lies beneath the surface of what is now Oronogo,Missouri.
But the mention of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), and tin itself, suggests that the Atlanteans had a considerable amount of both copper and tin available, considering the observation they were covering whole walls with them. And are not modern Indonesia and Malaysia two of the world's largest producers of tin, as well as having significant copper reserves, along with several other metals? [56] As far as tin goes, only Brazil and China produce more. Much of Indonesia's tin is extracted from offshore 'placer' deposits, and in fact, it is thought that about 40% of Indonesia's potential reserves are actually offshore, on the Sunda Shelf! [57] The neighbouring countries of Malaysia and Thailand also have significant tin deposits, including 'placers'. In fact, the three Southeast Asian countries produce approximately one third of all the tin metal in the world [58].
Looks like a better spot for Mu.
Or Lemuria.
Interesting ATLANTIS connection: Plato said that Atlantis was an island populated by humans who coexisted with pygmy elephants, and that it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption.
This recent discovery of these "pygmy humans" on the island of Flores adds a new aspect. Flores is within this "Sundaland" region, and these creatures are thought to have lived there from 95,000 - 13,000 years ago. They could have walked across the flooded lowlands, which during the Ice Age were high and dry. No need for boats as someone here alluded to....and, these small people hunted "pygmy elephants" and according to scientists, this race of creatures was wiped out by a volcanic eruption about 13,000 years ago....so Flores could have inspired the legend.
I've read some of Hancock's books, you have to understand he has an agenda to find that long lost civilization, and he's looked everywhere on Earth.
I vote for Southwest Spain. The Pacific is too far away for the Greeks to have cared. There'd be a whole mess of stories about it in Asia if it was out there, too, and as far as I know, Atlantis is mentioned solely in European sources.
"this island was the way to the other islands; and from these you may pass to the to the opposite continent, which encompasses the true ocean"...
Plato put Atlantis outside the straits of Gibraltar. The opposite continent mentioned is the Americas. While I find it likely that much of the continental shelf was exposed all over the world during the glaciations, and that humans lived there, Atlantis was in the Atlantic, or it was nowhere.
Correction, Atlantis is in the Pegasus Galaxy.....
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His chapters about the 'Rig Veda' from that part of the world is very, very intruiging. His theory about the reality behind the 'Shiva and the Mountain Dragon' myth seems to me to be very plausible.
Personally, I wonder more if 'Sundaland' wasn't "Kumari Kandam".
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very good!
Although most of the ancient Greek stories were at least partially based on fact, such as the Iliad and Odyssey, I think Atlantis is totally fictional.
First of all, it has only one source. Second there are too many contradictions and impossibilities.
The only place which even remotely is close to the story is Crete. They really did war with Athens, and they really were advanced at an early date, although not as early as the supposed time of Atlantis.
Basically the story is an interesting piece of fiction.
