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"I think the story of Atlantis told by Plato is as interesting as any story told by one ancient guy. And there are a lot. However, since Aztecs mention that there used to be this great empire called Atlan, and since Atlan and Tis are Aztec and Inca words meaning City and Water, and Plato talks about how Atlantis was so tied to the sea, im willing to believe that Atlantis may have been located on or next to south america."

"South america itself is after all past the pillars of Hercule, and it contains plenty of gold and copper. Not to mention piramids, which everyone associates with Atlantis anyway."

Thanks. I have considered this area too as have many others, Jim Allen's Historic Atlantis In Bolivia. Dr Robert Schoch believes these people were refugees from Sundaland when it went underwater at the end of the Ice Age. This can be found in his book, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders

LOL, I had some PhD's do a study that showed how the Gulf Of Mexico could have been blocked off and isolated from the world's oceans during the Ice Age and when the waters rose and the dam broke, Atlantis was flooded. I thought of that idea while trying to explain how man-made (?)(the jury is still out) structures came to be lying under 2,500 feet of water off the western edge of Cuba.

Were the Chapoapoyas (of South America) exiled workers from the gold mines (ophir) of King Solomon?

I think there are a lot of big suprises for us in South America, yet.

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Thanks. I have considered this area too as have many others, Jim Allen's Historic Atlantis In Bolivia. Dr Robert Schoch believes these people were refugees from Sundaland when it went underwater at the end of the Ice Age. This can be found in his book, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders

I havent read that book.

So Sundaland went down and it's people fled to all over the world? Hmmmm. Hell-of-a-better emergency planning than New Orleans it seems? How much food would that have required? How much time and ships?

How could flooding and earthquakes that destroys an entire continent leave any survivors, even (especially~!)if they where on boats? Where the survivors already exploring other places at the time?

Presuming there was a Sundaland and all, i still dont' know... if my country was flooded, I would not sail out to the other side of the globe. I would go to the nearest bit of furtile land, and there should be plenty around Indonesia. At least those people would be familiar to me!

To sail to lands far away, to split up groups of survivors, well it's strange. Not impossible, but awkward. There would have to have been prior exploration and a lot of knowledge where you are going, and a great shortage of food or space in the surrounding lands, before i would sail to another continent to live.