Posted on 10/02/2023 12:05:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A team of divers and archaeologists have made a discovery deep in the sea off the Gulf of Cadiz that they hope could possibly solve an enigma that is thousands of years old.
They uncovered large concentric circular structures that look like artificial walls which are said to bear similarities to Plato’s descriptions of the mysterious lost city of Atlantis.
At a press conference held in the Cádiz municipality of Chipiona this Saturday, September 30, the divers and technicians who carried out a scan of the area, spoke of their findings.
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The location of the find has not been revealed publicly
Speaking at the press conference, the historian and archaeologist Mercedes de Caso Bernal indicated that the team was not going to reveal the location of these findings: ‘We have notified the corresponding administrations and it is they who are responsible for maintaining and protecting them’, he explained.
Boris Martínez Abad and Antonio Fernández Olivero, two of the diving team, explained that 10 years ago, while returning from one of their underwater explorations, they detected ‘some anomalies’ in the area with sonar. ‘We were going with empty oxygen tanks, so we marked the area and left it for other explorations’, they revealed.
They detected something ‘quite special’ under the water
In their subsequent dives, in an area with hardly any visibility, they said they thought they had detected shapes similar to walls, built with stones at right angles, something that was ‘quite special’.
As a result, they contacted the topographers and hydrographers Sergio Aleu Ruiz and Alejandro Aleu Ruiz. The two specialists used technology to carry out bathymetric surveys of the area, with which they detected structures rising from the seabed, with a height of five metres and some of them up to 450 metres long.
‘We are calling them walls, but they could be rock formations, natural, artificial, we don’t know’, they explained. The only thing they do know is that they have never before seen others like them in the area.
The team discovered ‘square and triangular stones’
Luis Silva, a marine biologist, also explained that during the dives they were surprised to see: ‘square and triangular stones, with such unnatural shapes, because right angles in nature are not very common’.
The archaeologist indicated that what they found is ‘the first data’ of an investigation that must continue with numerous technologies.
Among other things, he pointed out that they must verify whether these supposed walls form part of the mainland or if they could in fact be an independent island like the one Plato referred to in his texts about a mythical civilisation, where he spoke of a lost paradise that for many scholars is no more than a legend.
‘We don’t know what we have found, or what the name of what we have found is. That’s all we can say’, Mercedes de Caso Bernal commented at the conference with ‘maximum caution’.
Plato wrote about an empire built 11,000 years ago
Michael Donnellan, also an archaeologist, was nevertheless convinced that he was ‘on the verge’ of ‘a monumental event’. He assured that, after seven years of research, the structures located coincided ‘perfectly with Plato’s writings’.
The ancient Greek philosopher mentioned an empire built 11,000 years ago, which was formed ‘by a series of cities facing the sea’. It had a capital located on ‘an artificial island’ that was surrounded by concentric circular walls and in which some 20,000 people lived at the time.
Donnellan explained that in his research, which he had carried out ‘respecting the law’, he found ‘exact similarities’. He concluded: ‘We cannot say that it is that place, we are simply saying that it is very curious and that we are in the process of continuing our research’.
Wasn’t it a fictional morality tale?
Any clickbait article that has a title in the form of a question can automatically presumed to have a “no” as the answer.
"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in southern Spain."
DemocRATS and sheep will finish the job that aliens gave up on.
I don’t believe these structors were built by humans alone.
We’re just not that smart, then and now.
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Except Plato says the opposite. He said it was beyond he pillars of Hercules, which would be in the Atlantic, not in the Mediterranean. Hence the name “Atlantis”.
Ask Joe Biden. I’m sure he has a long-winded story on how he delivered newspapers as a boy growing up in the rough part of Atlantis.
Might this have been another city that suffered same/similar fate as Sodom & Gomorrah?
We were that smart prior to the flood, when the environment was better for us. It’s quite possible that these stone structures are remnants of the antediluvian civilization that preceded the flood.
Except he doesn’t actually. Because the whole story is an allegory. His description of the location is no more telling people where a real place is than Lovecraft’s description of R’lyeh.
Oh geeze, I just realized in 2000 years gullible are going to be looking for R’lyeh. And Innsmouth. Etc etc. Oh boy, Lovecraft really screwed up the future.
“Except he doesn’t actually. Because the whole story is an allegory.”
Yes, the story is an allegory, but he still places the action of the story in a specific location, which is beyond the pillars of Hercules, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Yes just like Lovecraft placed his stories in specific locations... locations that NEVER existed.
I highly recommend you watch Galaxy Quest and remember Plato’s stories are NOT historical documents.
“remember Plato’s stories are NOT historical documents”
Who said they were? You’re tilting at windmills.
My antediluvian baby!
Again?
YOU ARE. By saying that he gave a description and therefore it’s real. Making a fictional place SEEM real by saying where it is located is called verisimilitude. It’s a common story telling trick.
You got one part right, I am tilting at windmills. You really just are not bright enough to understand. There was never an Atlantis it’s FICTION.
On many stone structures the marks left by rotary drills and such can be seen. And some surfaces are flat to within 2 thousands of an inch. Impossible with hand tools. These things are as flat as modern truing tables. No way could they be produced by craftsmen with chisels.
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