[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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[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.

[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?)

[Truth666]

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

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping...

[Wonder Warthog]

"Atlantis is a myth, a literary construct of a far-off world, a perfect golden age," said Stephen V. Tracy, director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. "To try and demythologize it by finding the actual place is simply wrong-headed. Good literature resonates with people, but myths such as this are meant to be symbolic."

Academics NEVER learn from the past, do they. One would think that one teaching in Greece just MIGHT remember that they once said the same exact thing about Troy.

[Davea]

Atlantis

Donovan





The continent of Atlantis was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So great an area of land,
That from her western shores
Those beautiful sailors journeyed
To the South and the North Americas with ease,
In their ships with painted sails.
To them East Africa was a neighbour,
Across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is

But a remnant of The Atlantian culture.
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from far Atlantis.

Knowing her fate,
Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.
On board were the Twelve:

The poet, the physician, The farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were -
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice
And let us sing
And dance and ring in the new Hail Atlantis!

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
I wanna see you some day
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
My antediluvian baby,
My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,
Girl, I wanna see you some day.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah
I wanna see you some day, oh My antediluvian baby.
My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you
My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone
I wanna see you some day Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up,
oh yeah Oh club club, down down, yeah
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

[KantianBurke]

[ctonious]

Reminds me of the old saw about the drunk looking for his car keys under a lamppost. A buddy asks him why's he only looking there. And the Establishment archaeologist says, "It's...because it's the only place I can conceive."

[aruanan]

"Atlantis is a myth, a literary construct of a far-off world, a perfect golden age," said Stephen V. Tracy, director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. "To try and demythologize it by finding the actual place is simply wrong-headed. Good literature resonates with people, but myths such as this are meant to be symbolic."

Sort of like the Hittites. Stevie's a dope.