[JoeSchem]

The evidence for a connection between Plato's Atlantis and the actual historical Minoan civilization is enormous. Plato drew on a report of an account in an Egyptian archive, and it appears that the numbers got upped by a factor of ten through a translation error.

Thus, Atlantis was not in the Atlantic, it was ten times closer, on the island of Crete. The dimensions of Atlantis are those of Crete, reduced by a factor of ten. The heyday of Minoan civilization was 900 years before Plato -- a factor of ten less than the 9000 years that Atlantean civilization was supposed to have existed.

The clincher is that Minoan civilization was destroyed overnight by tidal waves from the largest volcanic explosion in human history . . . which of course is a remarkable coincidence with the Atlantis legend.

Minoan civilization was advanced when the Greeks were in diapers. The Minoans were poised to dominate western civilization and culture. Then God stepped in.

[expatpat]

Sounds like a good theory to me -- By Jove, I think you've got it!

[WoofDog123]

Is anything known about the language of the Minoan civilization, i.e. what their name for their island, city-state was? Is this where the Linear A tablets were found?

[blam]

The Search For Atlantis 'Ends At Ayia Napa' (Cyprus)

[blam]

"Thus, Atlantis was not in the Atlantic, it was ten times closer, on the island of Crete. The dimensions of Atlantis are those of Crete, reduced by a factor of ten. The heyday of Minoan civilization was 900 years before Plato -- a factor of ten less than the 9000 years that Atlantean civilization was supposed to have existed."

I prefer not to change the legend to fit my ideas. I find it more rewarding to 'work' my ideas around the original legend.

* Generally I have found that the more distant in the past, the less we know about things. This works for Atlantis...all we know is something handed down from an Egyptian priest in 360BC.

* 9,000 years ago was the end of the last Ice Age, enormous changes were occurring with the shifting of the weigh of the melting ice. There would be great earthquakes, volcanos and floods. A good time for a civilization and large areas of land to disappear.

[Bob J]

Agreed. It appears to me someone is fishing for Nat Geo or Discovery contract.