[LostInBayport]

Many, many years ago I read (and still have) a book by Charles Berlitz called Atlantis: The Lost Continent. It suggests a few possible sites for the lost land, and it convinced me that Atlantis once existed (whether it was a continent or a island nation). I am still amazed at how scholars and historians use Plato as a reference for so much yet dismiss his account of Atlantis.

Great stuff!

[newguy357]

Many, many years ago I read (and still have) a book by Charles Berlitz called Atlantis: The Lost Continent. It suggests a few possible sites for the lost land, and it convinced me that Atlantis once existed (whether it was a continent or a island nation). I am still amazed at how scholars and historians use Plato as a reference for so much yet dismiss his account of Atlantis.

That's because the stuff that Plato is used for today (political theory, mainly) is based on reason. Reason was valid then and still is today. His account of Atlantis may or may not be true, but it is not based on reason, but on what even he acknowledged to be legend, from thousands of years prior to even his time.

[BipolarBob]

Antarctica. A continent and buried under (frozen) water.

[sergeantdave]

” I am still amazed at how scholars and historians use Plato as a reference for so much yet dismiss his account of Atlantis.”

Plato got his transcripts from ancient scrolls copied from the Alexendria library. Those scrolls in Egypt were 12,000 years old.

[gleeaikin]

The interesting thing about Plato is that he quotes an Egyptian priest as saying that the Atlantis sinking occurred 9,000 years earlier. This would put it about 13,500 years ago which coincides pretty well with the ideas regarding a major boloid strike episode in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in North America. SC, time to post Firestone’s book.