Researcher says he's found sunken site of Atlantis

Boston Globe ^ | 10/11/03 | Helena Smith

[aristotleman]

ATHENS -- After nearly 10 years of study, a US researcher says he has assembled evidence to prove that the fabled lost island of Atlantis existed off the shores of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.

Robert Sarmast says Atlantis was not simply a figment of the imagination of the Greek philosopher Plato, who vividly described the seafaring civilization and how it had been "swallowed up by the earth," but a real place replete with stone temples, bridges, canals, and roads.

[aristotleman]

If this turns out true, it's huge news for this little mediterranean island. Just think of the theme park possibilities.

[aristotleman]

Atlantis found in our neck of the woods. Let's make peace and exploit this ;-')

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

UGH... not a Disney "Little Mermaid Theme Park"!

[aristotleman]

More like an "UnderWaterWorld" park, with submarine rides and glass bottom boats. I give this six months.

[KellyAdmirer]

I think if it were near Cyprus, Plato would have said, "It was over there by Cyprus." This one won't fly.

[MonroeDNA]

"Atlantis is a myth, a literary construct of a far-off world, a perfect golden age,"

Like Camelot.

[kcar]

The Atlantis Theme Park would probably work with or without the truth part.

[inPhase]

O well, may as well try to decouple some history from myth.

[concerned about politics]

I think if it were near Cyprus, Plato would have said, "It was over there by Cyprus." This one won't fly.

According to the History Channel, this must be at least the 10th discovery of another Atlantis !! There's a whole bunch of them !!

It's really off the coast of Florida. All those lost ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle aren't really lost. They found Atlantis, and simply decided to stay. That's true. It's a fact. Really. Seriesly.

[VOA]

ping...in case you haven't seen this...
I'll reserve judgement until Robert Ballard gets on the job (isn't he the
deep-sea explorer, e.g. Titanic and The Black Sea?)

[rintense]

I think Atlantis is really Antarctica... and vice versa. ;)

[rintense]

The Bimini Road theory in the Bahamas has always intrigued me.

[Truth666]

Atlantis's legend is nonsense but even more stupid is repeatedly finding it in the Mediterrananean ...

[RightWhale]

There's a whole bunch of them !!

Without a doubt. Any city at sea level 10,000 years ago is now at least 400 feet down.

[Nicholas Romanov]

Sadly, the Timaeus indicates Atlantis is outside of Gibralter. The text could not be more clear that Atlantis is one of the many myths that Plato liked to use to illustrate his dialogues. See A.E. Taylor's seminal commentary.

[lawdude]

"Atlantis's legend is nonsense but even more stupid is repeatedly finding it in the Mediterrananean ..."

And where should it be? Plato rarely vacationed in Bermuda.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping...

[since1868]

Way down below the ocean is where she may be, she may be.
D.L.

[4mycountry]

but even more stupid is repeatedly finding it in the Mediterrananean ...

Need coffee?