Posted on 11/14/2004 6:57:47 PM PST by aculeus
A team of American ocean researchers said yesterday that they were convinced they had found evidence of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus.
The team used the latest sonar technology to create images of the sea bed a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean.
The expedition, led by Robert Sarmast, spent six days at sea surveying the area. "I am absolutely convinced I have found Atlantis," Mr Sarmast said, speaking on the deck of his research ship on his return to Limassol.
"The sonar images showed what appeared to be two straight walls each about a mile long at either end of a flat-topped hill where the city's temples would have been situated."
In addition to these apparently man-made structures the images also showed evidence of two streams that Mr Sarmast said had flowed from springs on the summit. These fed into a trench or canal bed, which seemed to run concentrically around the hill.
According to Mr Sarmast the latest evidence matches exactly the detailed description of Atlantis given by Plato.
"There are about 60 specific points that match Plato's account," he said. "How can you explain away a bunch of coincidences like this?"
Mr Sarmast, 38, from Los Angeles, admits he has no formal academic qualifications to substantiate his claims, which he acknowledges to be controversial. But having spent 10 years studying accounts of the lost city he is in no doubt about the importance of his find.
He says his next step will be to make a three-dimensional computer image from the sonar data before returning to the site for further research.
But Mr Sarmast is not alone in claiming to have found the site of the ancient city. Last June a German researcher produced evidence to support his assertion that Atlantis was once a coastal area of Spain, not far from Cadiz. Other recent theories have located the city near Cuba and off the coast of Devon.
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.....NOT another one!
/re-incarnation
It could be that all the deeply submerged ruins are satellites of the main, perhaps near Cyprus ... the story goes that the civ of Atlantis carried on world-wide trade and made maps (some of which have been revealed) of the entire globe.
You guys weely quack me up! Thanks!
Thanks WaggleBee, I'll ping GGG a little later, probably from his one:
Atlantis Hunt Reveals Structures In Sea Off Cyprus
Reuters ^ | 11-13-2004
Posted on 11/13/2004 3:54:27 PM PST by blam
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We all know it is in the Pegasus galaxy
Well, it's sort of a submerged island. It keeps floating around from continent to continenet - sea to shining sea.
Atlantis, it seems, has became a title given to any submerged evidence of civilization that may have existed in the window of 5-10 thousand years ago. I think what will be confirmed is that mankind worldwide had fairly robust civilizations in many parts of the world at the end of the last ice age. I think that there is a high likelyhood that Atlantis in some form or another did exist but as of yet it has not been found in any definitive sense and it will probably be some time before it is.
Noah even traveled it in the world-wide flood!
Hmmmmmmmm....
Why would he do that?
You'll excuse me, I'm a writer of fictional things loosely based in facts.
And I had a rather spirited discussion of politics with the Tooth Fairy last night. By the way, TF wants everyone to know that she is not a gay man. Former NJ Governor McGreevey however is.
I knew, I left it somewhere around there.
"...no formal academic qualifications" is the best thing this guy had said yet.
I hear about Atlantis everywhere. I heard of it even in Antartica of all places.
Nonsense. Plato said it was a considerable continent broken by 3 major rivers. The Atlantic is named after Atlantis. The Atla in Meso-America is named after Atlantis.
The searches haven't found Atlantis because it is too far south now for them to look for it, and its name has been changed.
It is called Antartica!
We have to wait for the ice to melt or the earth's surface to shift or the angle to change to discover the truth.
There are at least two proofs Darwin was wrong.
1. Antarica is the home of mankind and civilization.
2. Darwin never met my cousins.
That's the most plausible explanation I've ever heard! Atlantis was a stinkin' franchise! No longer did men need to travel to the far corners of the earth to turn their slaves into animals, or to take that crystal-powered Zaren(R) brand death ray in for some factory scheduled maintenance! Yessir, there's an Atlantis(tm) coming to an antediluvian city near you!
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