In 360 B.C. Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson believes the Greek philosopher based his geographic description on Ireland (shown above in a satellite image).
Posted on 11/17/2004 12:34:11 PM PST by blam
My bet is on the Atlantic Ocean.
Germans and spewing...how appropriate.
MV
The original claim/article.
My money is on the South China Sea, Sundaland.
You have several clues. First of all there's a city, in a lake, that meets all the requirements. Secondly that city is in the area where coca was first domesticated to provide high levels of cocaine. Thirdly, Egyptian mummies of the time have cocaine in the body's tissue cells.
We also find a similar site in Southern Portugual. It's laid out just like the place in the Andes.
Quite logically the Andean dope dealers sought markets around the world. They built settlements to support the transport of their product.
The business was so successful it's still operating!
As long as we're betting - I'd say Lake Eerie
What does a physicist know about under-sea archeology and for that matter....under sea geology? What makes this Physicist such an expert that he disputes the American?
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In 360 B.C. Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson believes the Greek philosopher based his geographic description on Ireland (shown above in a satellite image).
My bet is that it wasn't Zeus.
You're not the only one who thinks this. Jim Allen has the below linked site, a book and a pretty good one hour documentary on this. There was a lot more going on in South America in prehistory times than most can/will admit.
I would choose SA or the Caribbean as a site for Atlantis over anything in the Mediterranean or Europe. I'm leaning toward Sundaland these days though.
The Altiplano in the Andes.
Ka-ching! Mine too.
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I tend to think Atlantis was in Southeast Asia, Sundaland. I always think there was a lost civilization that pre-dates the first known civilization, which was very advanced.
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