Where Was Atlantis? Sundaland Fits The Bill, Surely!

Graham Hancock ^ | unknown | Dr Sunil Prasannan

[blam]

Please correct the title...fots should be fits. Thamks

[MrChips]

Nah. I like Thera (Santorini) better.

[Graymatter]

I read a book, Eden in the East, that discusses this possibility. Utterly failed to make the case. Too much water on top of all the evidence there might be. Just letting ya know, don't spend your money on E in the E.

[em2vn]

It has been proven for years that Atlantis lies beneath the surface of what is now Oronogo,Missouri.

[Chani]

ping for later....thamks lol

[Sidebar Moderator]

Next time just hit the AR. We'll see it faster.

Thanks.

SBM

[blam]

"I read a book, Eden in the East, that discusses this possibility. Utterly failed to make the case. Too much water on top of all the evidence there might be. Just letting ya know, don't spend your money on E in the E."

I have the book...I thought it was excellent. I just ordered Out Of Eden

You probably wouldn't like Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders, by Dr Robert Schoch. It's reasonably good.

[blam]

"Next time just hit the AR. We'll see it faster."

Okay...What's the AR?

[Sidebar Moderator]

The Abuse Button...

[blam]

Ping.

[Graymatter]

Haven't read Voyages yet, but I like Schoch. Nothing ponderous about Schoch. Thanks, will look into it!

[GOPJ]

Nice post -- helps make the case...

But the mention of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), and tin itself, suggests that the Atlanteans had a considerable amount of both copper and tin available, considering the observation they were covering whole walls with them. And are not modern Indonesia and Malaysia two of the world's largest producers of tin, as well as having significant copper reserves, along with several other metals? [56] As far as tin goes, only Brazil and China produce more. Much of Indonesia's tin is extracted from offshore 'placer' deposits, and in fact, it is thought that about 40% of Indonesia's potential reserves are actually offshore, on the Sunda Shelf! [57] The neighbouring countries of Malaysia and Thailand also have significant tin deposits, including 'placers'. In fact, the three Southeast Asian countries produce approximately one third of all the tin metal in the world [58].

[BenLurkin]

Looks like a better spot for Mu.

[BenLurkin]

Or Lemuria.

[BenLurkin]

[blam]

The oldest bronze smeltering site ever found is in Thailand.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping!

[eagle11]

Interesting ATLANTIS connection: Plato said that Atlantis was an island populated by humans who coexisted with pygmy elephants, and that it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

This recent discovery of these "pygmy humans" on the island of Flores adds a new aspect. Flores is within this "Sundaland" region, and these creatures are thought to have lived there from 95,000 - 13,000 years ago. They could have walked across the flooded lowlands, which during the Ice Age were high and dry. No need for boats as someone here alluded to....and, these small people hunted "pygmy elephants" and according to scientists, this race of creatures was wiped out by a volcanic eruption about 13,000 years ago....so Flores could have inspired the legend.

I've read some of Hancock's books, you have to understand he has an agenda to find that long lost civilization, and he's looked everywhere on Earth.

[KellyAdmirer]

I vote for Southwest Spain. The Pacific is too far away for the Greeks to have cared. There'd be a whole mess of stories about it in Asia if it was out there, too, and as far as I know, Atlantis is mentioned solely in European sources.