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To: blam

What is it about the legend of Atlantis that motivates scholars and treasure-hunters?

Considering the land masses that have come submerged since the last glacial maximum, there are probably sunken cities and sunken civilizations all over the world.

They can't all be Atlantis, but they're still worth finding.

By the way, I lost the link to that map again. When I upgraded Firefox a couple of months ago, I lost all my bookmarks. Can you please link it again? Thanks.


16 posted on 07/23/2005 9:43:18 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: CobaltBlue
Considering the land masses that have come submerged since the last glacial maximum, there are probably sunken cities and sunken civilizations all over the world.

They can't all be Atlantis, but they're still worth finding.
I wholeheartedly agree. Bravo!
Catastrophical Scenario for Discontinuities in Human History
by Emilio Spedicato
University of Bergamo
"that Atlantis was Minoan Crete, destroyed by the tsunami which followed the collapse of the volcanic chamber in Santorini... requires so many substantial changes to the Platonic text, that it is equivalent in our opinion to rejecting the text"
Spedicato puts Atlantis on Hispaniola. I don't necessarily agree with that, but at least it conforms to Plato's text. :')

17 posted on 07/23/2005 11:23:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
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To: CobaltBlue
"By the way, I lost the link to that map again."

What map?

This one?

19 posted on 07/23/2005 11:45:31 AM PDT by blam
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