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The Lost City of Atlantis May Be Hiding in Plain Sight Sergio Frau
Newser ^ | August 17, 2015 | Sergio Frau

Posted on 09/02/2015 10:20:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Sergio Frau suspects Plato was writing about a tidal wave on Sardinia...

Writer and journalist Sergio Frau is another. After researching the island for a decade, Frau suspects a mysterious disaster that devastated Sardinia 3,200 years ago was in fact a tidal wave, which boosts the theory that Sardinia and Atlantis are one and the same, reports the Guardian. Stefano Tinti, an expert on tidal waves who recently visited the island with Frau along with a dozen other experts, says 350 tidal waves have occurred in the Mediterranean over the last 2,500 years and one might explain why all of Sardinia's ancient megalithic edifices below 1,640 feet of elevation are hidden beneath dirt.

Frau explains at least 20,000 nuraghi—fortresses with a main tower—can be found across the island, dating between the 16th and 12th centuries BC. But below 1,640 feet in the south, the structures are buried. Excavations in this area have found a jumble of ceramics, cups, pots, oil lamps, sharpening stones, metal implements, knives, chisels, needles, and arrow tips; gold, silver, amber, and rock crystal jewellery have also been found. Tinti notes the 2003 earthquake in Algeria "triggered a shockwave that reached the Balearics and Sardinia an hour later," but only a comet hitting "very close to the coast and in a very specific direction" could have created a wall of water 1,640 feet high. The Guardian reports researchers could search for evidence of such an impact, including comet fragments, underwater. The initial purpose of the nuraghi, used later for moon worship, is also a subject of interest.

(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: algeria; algeriak; atlantis; balearicislands; catastrophism; comet; earthshaker; godsgravesglyphs; italy; mediterranean; nuraghi; plato; poseidon; santorini; sardinia; sergiofrau; stefanotinti; thera; tidalwave; tsunami; tyrrheniansea; volcano
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To: SunkenCiv

“Well, I’m stumped.

Stumps come from the Sahara Forest.

Don’t you mean Sahara Desert?

Sure, now.”

Desert is often misspelled as dessert. Desserts are, generally speaking, sweet.

So, it must be someplace without sand.


21 posted on 09/03/2015 11:06:55 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

Sand Franciscold?


22 posted on 09/03/2015 11:14:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sand Franciscold was rather famous for its perversions and depravities, much like the Atlantis of legend before it fell.

Famous is like legendary, mostly. So, you might be on to something.


23 posted on 09/03/2015 12:46:52 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting part is the dating of the tidal wave - 1200 BC and the appearance of the Sea Peoples in the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptians called one group of the Sea Peoples Confederacy the Sherdana and it is thought they might have been Sardinians.


24 posted on 09/03/2015 12:50:44 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: ZULU
The Sea Peoples are a modern invention; there are two references to them in Egyptian contemporary records, which are misdated by centuries anyway. The Sea Peoples left no towns, no distinctive burials, armor, weapons, rulers (including conquerors of the lands they supposedly conquered), written records in their own right, and perhaps most significantly, no wrecks -- the last one being pretty damned peculiar for a massive group of seagoing conquerors.

25 posted on 09/03/2015 2:26:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder what Sardinia looked like about 7-8,000 years ago before the Mediterranean ‘re-filled’ with water after the Ice Age? I went there in 1963...and Malta. I remember it being dry.


26 posted on 09/03/2015 2:58:27 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: tet68
"Feel free to substitute brazil nuts, if you know"

Brazil nuts are not farmed...they are all harvested in the wild. They tried to farm Brazil nuts but failed. Has to do with the bees. Only the female bee is strong enough to pollinate the Brazil Nut flower but her mate dines on a number of other flowers (orchids, etc) that only grow in the jungle. Put the tree on a farm and the male bee starves to death, etc.

"Brazil nut tree's yellow flowers contain very sweet nectar and can only be pollinated by an insect strong enough to lift the coiled hood on the flower and with a tongue long enough to negotiate the complex coiled flower. For this reason, the Brazil nut's reproduction depends on the presence of the orchid Coryanthes vasquezii, which does not grow on the Brazil nut tree itself. The orchids produce a scent that attracts small male long-tongued orchid bees (Euglossa spp), as the male bees need that scent to attract females. The large female long-tongued orchid bee pollinates the Brazil nut tree. Without the orchid, the bees do not mate, and therefore the lack of bees means the fruit does not get pollinated."

27 posted on 09/03/2015 3:10:08 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

Ok, guess it was just too esoteric.

It comes from the stage play “Charlie’s Aunt”.
In which every time the word Brazil is mentioned
the reply is “Oh, where the nuts come from!”.


28 posted on 09/03/2015 3:16:17 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

or it is all misinterpreted

the towers are archeo astronomy related structures that tell time


29 posted on 09/03/2015 4:24:26 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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To: bert
You left out the part about "great religious significance".

If we look at the facilities we have today, and try to imagine the past equivalents in a successful society, The frequency of the sites would indicate that either there was a severe need for protection (a very large and mobile raider population) or the sites served some utilitarian purpose.

The former could be verified or eliminated by excavating for the remnants of attacks, either military camp debris or evidence of walls being broached, burning, etc. Projectile points and such should be fairly abundant.

Storage for grain and/or silage (animal fodder), would make particular sense, considering the shorter transport distances from field to storage afforded by the number and distribution of sites. That, too should leave evidence in the forms of seeds or pollen or plant debris of a type likely to have been the results of agricultural or animal husbandry efforts, and may be supported by a lack of evidence of military action.

It would be possible for these sites to serve multiple uses as well, including both as grain/fodder storage, military defense, and be also aligned to foster astronomical measurements, although I would think the selection of site would be dominated by military considerations if that was the primary function, even distribution within an area if agriculture was paramount, and if in concert with other sites it served an astronomical purpose, the alignment and relative position of the sites would dominate site selection.

30 posted on 09/03/2015 5:03:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: BlueDragon

Land level was probably much lower. Sea levels have changed significantly sine the last ice age.


31 posted on 09/03/2015 5:40:27 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: tet68
"Ok, guess it was just too esoteric."

It's me.

I like the Brazil nut/bee story and have been waiting to tell someone. Your mention of Brazil Nuts was enough to get me started. Ha. Ha (I read that LOL is uncool now)

32 posted on 09/03/2015 7:33:31 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Vermont Lt
Ice Age world map:

HERE

33 posted on 09/03/2015 7:36:41 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

Well, that certainly explains prehistoric migration....

One certainly did not need ships and planes to go from one continent to another.


34 posted on 09/04/2015 7:31:59 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Whar about the Egyptian records, including illustrations and names?


35 posted on 09/04/2015 1:58:17 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: blam

I learn something new every day, at least. I knew they collected Brazil nuts from the wild, but now I know the reason why. Thanks.


36 posted on 09/04/2015 7:44:50 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: OldNewYork
Further:

The Brazil nut tree is the tallest in the jungle and Bolivia, not Brazil supplies most of the nuts.

37 posted on 09/05/2015 6:26:17 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

Very interesting. How do you know so much about Brazil nuts?


38 posted on 09/05/2015 6:30:27 AM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: SunkenCiv
The Guardian reports researchers could search for evidence of such an impact, including comet fragments, underwater.

Of course, if a comet is made up of ice, then 6 millenium old comet fragments might be found underwater....?????!!!!!

39 posted on 09/05/2015 6:34:22 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: OldNewYork
"Very interesting. How do you know so much about Brazil nuts?"

It started out with a TV documentary I saw about them....then, searching the internet.

There's an intriguing documentary I saw about a fish that only eats the fruit from a certain tree that overhangs (fruit drops into the water) the waterway where it lives and eats nothing else. If the tree disappears, these fishes die. Now, more intrigue.
The tree can only re-seed itself after its fruit and seeds pass through the gut of this fish. The seeds will not germinate unless they are eaten and expelled by this particular fish. The tree disappears without the fish.

A perfect example of obligate symbiosis.

"Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. For example, many lichens consist of fungal and photosynthetic symbionts that cannot live on their own.[4][9][10][11] Others are facultative, meaning that they can, but do not have to live with the other organism."

This knowledge is very entertaining for me.

40 posted on 09/05/2015 8:22:49 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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