Search For "Lost" Atlantis Centers On Strait Of Gibraltar

National Geographic ^ | 0104-2001

[blam]

Presently I think Atlantis will be found in the Americas.

[mvonfr]

Presently I think Bin Laden will be found in the Atlantis

[prometheus]

End of the Ice Age = Global Warming....

[A Navy Vet]

There exist underwater ruins off the Spanish coast near the city of Cadiz. Not sure I ever heard a reasonable explanation of their origin. Cadiz is at the southern most part of Spain, not far from Gibraltar.

[blam]

"End of the Ice Age = Global Warming...."

End of the Ice Age=Many flood stories.

[keithtoo]

I could be wrong, but I think this thing is fairly mobile

At least once its lit!

[Cagey]

End of the Ice Age=Room temperature Martinis

[Dog Gone]

I think it was Thira.

Even if these islands near Gibralter existed, they would have been insignificant specks of land, hardly an impressive civilization. Their eventual disappearance in a rising sea would have been no more impressive than what happened to any coastal city of the time and probably less so.

Thira, on the other hand, was the at the center of the Minoan Civilization, perhaps the most advanced and impressive one on the planet at the time. It was blown to bits and disappeared into the sea with only fragments of the volcano making up some of the beautiful Greek isles today.

Legends sometimes get it wrong.

[aruanan]

Remember that the entire Mediterranean basin was once a giant valley through which Nile and other rivers from Europe flowed to the Atlantic. There are LOTS of flooded ruins on the floor of the Mediterranean.

[KevinDavis]

Also don't forget, many cultures speak of a great flood and a great civilization. Atlantis was one of them. Personally I think Atlantis is located either in Antartica region or the somewhere in the Atlantic ocean.

[Dog Gone]

No doubt about it. The Mediterranean shoreline is much further inland than it used to be. But if the tale of Atlantis is true, I think we should be looking for something that ended in cataclysm, not a gradual rise in sea levels.

[blam]

"I think it was Thira."

I once thought that too. I don't think the explosion of Thera (1628BC) is old enough. If Atlantis existed in more recent times there would have been more evidence and more written about it. The scarity of information about Atlantis hints at an ancient date. IMO (In the 1300's a Jewish guy named Nazi (no kidding) owned the island of Thera)

[John H K]

Thera is (and was) a tiny island as well.

[John H K]

Thera is (and was) a tiny island as well.

[Hemlock]

The story of Atlantis is just a corrupted Greek version of the biblical flood story.

[exmoor]

Search for "Lost" Atlantis..WASN'T THERE AN ELVIS SIGHTING THERE?

[Nitro]

Link to Akrotiri of Thera!!

[Bosco]

Yes, Elvis was there along with Bigfoot, after landing in their UFO.

[blam]

"The Mediterranean shoreline is much further inland than it used to be. But if the tale of Atlantis is true, I think we should be looking for something that ended in cataclysm, not a gradual rise in sea levels."

The Med has completely dried out at least 40 times, the last time was 5 million years ago. My theory along those lines would have the Med blocked at Gibraltar and a lower but stable water level.
The cataclysmic part would occur when the plug at Gibraltar broke, like the Black Sea at the Bosporus. This flooding of the Med could have eventually spilled over and flooded the Black Sea. There are scouring marks (as yet undated) at Gibraltar on the ocean floor that are very similar to the scouring marks at the entrance to the Black Sea.
Noah would have gotten word of the flooding of the Med from all the travellers and refugees from the Med and decided to built the arc on the side of Mt. Ararat. (huh?)

This would also put Atlantis in ancient times where I think it belongs, 7,000-11,000 years ago. Incidently, I think something similar could have happened in the Gulf of Mexico. (The Persian Gulf was completely dry during the Ice Age, potentially more flood stories?)