Sea Level Study Reveals Atlantis Candidate

NewScientist.com ^ | 9-19-2001 | Jon Copley

[StriperSniper]

BTTT

[blam]

You wouldn't be speaking of the Altiplano in Peru would you?

[blam]

It would be fun to do an ocean floor archaelogical survey to see if there are artifacts or evidence of construction, but that's true of just about every place on the continental shelves today.

Yup. Do you remember this posting?

Update on Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b34ba6163f0.htm

We should be hearing something about this Cuba site in a short while. They were going down to have a look this summer.

[blam]

"I still prefer the Thera eruption and tidal waves on Crete affecting the Minoans."

That's still a good candidate but, I'm leaning toward South America as my first choice these days. The alloy of gold and copper mentioned by Plato occurs naturally in only one place in the world, Peru. Tihuanaco has some unusual metal alloy, nickel/copper, clamps that are used to hold the huge masonary blocks together. We only attained the ability to make that alloy in the 1930's.

[blam]

"Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?"

Plutarch (Greek) writes of his tour of the ruins of Carthage decades after it was destroyed and mentions seeing descriptions of Atlantic Ocean travel by the Carthagenians.(sp) There are (man) altered waterways in the Amazon basin that some have said would have taken a human population of fifty million to have accomplished, they are ancient and little examined.
Also, I've read one anthropologist say that he thought that Solomon's gold mines may have been at the head waters of the Amazon River.

[blam]

Go here to see an interesting site:

http://www.geocities.com/webatlantis/

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is another theory regarding the metal working within S. America. In fact, Zacharia Sitchin has written four books about his theory and marshalls impressive evidence for it.

I go with Plato though.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Plato would not have made such a dumb geographical mistake.

[blam]

"In fact, Zacharia Sitchin has written four books about his theory and marshalls impressive evidence for it."

I haven't read them. Can you give a quick overview of his ideas? Thanks.

[cogitator]

Plato would not have made such a dumb geographical mistake.

Well, it's not my place to determine Plato's geographical accuracy. But 9,000 years of verbal memory strains my belief zone.

[justshutupandtakeit]

It is Zecharia but he maintains that the metal working facilities and massive structures in Peru were created by extra-terrestrials who came down from the 12th Planet which has a long elliptical orbit around the sun. That argument is in Lost Realms and I can't say much about it but can definitely say that wierd as such a theory is the ruins in Latin American are even wierder.

Look on the net for references to Sitkin and his books.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The description of location is not a likely change even from oral history. From an island a few miles from the Greek mainland to one specifically set outside the pillars of Hercules does not seem to be the kind of mistake one would make.

Plato claimed that this story comes from Solon's discussions with the priests of Eygpt who had written records not just oral ones.

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America is Alantis!

[curmudgeonII]

How many people on the Free Republic site for the first time are going to read this post?

And conclude that if the rest of Free Republic is like this post then there is nothing but a bunch of "flat earth" types in this forum.

[blam]

Huh? Flat earth types? If you don't like it, don't read it. ...and I suggest that new comers do the same.

[4CJ]

What? The Earth isn't flat? Hah! The next thing you know, someone will say that the Earth isn't the center of the universe, the moon isn't made of cheese, or Usama Bin Laden is a terrorist.

Interesting article my friend. Either Plato (and possibly others) invented the story, or else it is based on fact. You knowledge impresses me.

[blam]

Does anyone know why my pictures in post #22 disappeared?

[blam]

"Either Plato (and possibly others) invented the story, or else it is based on fact."

Heinreich Schleimann was ridiculed terribly for using the writing of Homer in his quest to find Troy. The ridicule ceased when he uncovered Troy by following the 'myths' of Homer. I expect something similar will be true of Atlantis.

[curmudgeonII]

Huh? Flat earth types? If you don't like it, don't read it. ...and I suggest that new comers do the same.

It'd be even better if nobody read this drivel.

[blam]

"It'd be even better if nobody read this drivel."

Drivel? Can you be specific...or do you just hate anthropology? You're not making any sense. What about this article/thread is offending you?