[Junior]

A purely platonic ping...

[Question_Assumptions]

I'm still going to bet on Thera, augmented with fanciful exaggerations.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

It would be easier to find El Dorado.

SEVEN CITIES OF CÍBOLA. Among the myths that propelled Spaniards into the far reaches of northern New Spain (Colonial Mexico) was the legend of the Seven Cities. That myth was an outgrowth of the Muslim conquest of Portugal in the early eighth century. Allegedly, in 714 seven Catholic bishops and their faithful followers had fled across the Atlantic to a land known as Antilia, the name of which, incidentally, was the source of the name Antilles, which was initially applied to the West Indian islands of the Caribbean. The Antilian islands failed to produce large quantities of gold and silver, and by 1539 lands reported on by Cabeza de Vacaqv and his companions were believed to contain an El Dorado known as Cíbola. In that year, Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza dispatched Fray Marcos de Niza and the African Estevanicoqv on a reconnoitering expedition. This exploration cost the life of Estevanico at Háwikuh, the southernmost of the Zuñi pueblos in western New Mexico. On his return to New Spain, Fray Marcos reported seeing golden cities, the smallest of which was larger than Mexico City. In 1540 the follow-up expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronadoqv captured Háwikuh and learned the true nature of it as well as other nearby pueblos. In the following year, disappointment over the Seven Cities of Cíbola prompted Coronado to launch a futile search for Quiviraqv-an undertaking that crossed the Panhandle.qv

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nonsense. Plato's description places it clearly outside the Pillars of Hercules thus in the Atlantic Ocean. He even mentions the continent to the West of Atlantis i.e. the Americas.

How do these clowns get money for such "research?" I want some.

[Grut]

To us contrarians, it's perfectly obvious that Atlantis was located near present-day Secaucus, New Jersey, because that's the only place left where it hasn't been 'found'.

[SunkenCiv]

Another oldie.

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