In 360 B.C. Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson believes the Greek philosopher based his geographic description on Ireland (shown above in a satellite image).
Posted on 11/17/2004 12:34:11 PM PST by blam
German physicist disputes Atlantis discovery claim by American
Tue Nov 16, 3:00 PM ET Science - AFP
BERLIN (AFP) - The remains of the lost city of Atlantis which a United States researcher claims to have found off the Mediterranean island of Cyprus are in fact submarine volcanoes, according to a German physicist.
US researcher Robert Sarmast claimed Sunday to have found proof that the mythical lost city of Atlantis actually existed and is located under the Mediterranean seabed between Cyprus and Syria.
But German physicist Christian Huebscher said he had identified the phenomenon as 100,000 year-old volcanoes that spewed mud.
Huebscher, of the Hamburg Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, is quoted in Wednesday's edition of the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as saying he and two Dutch colleagues had sailed in a boat to the same area at which Sarmast claimed to have located Atlantis and made their findings.
Sarmast's team claims to have found man-made structures located about one mile (some 1.5 kilometres) below sea level and 50 miles (80 kilometres) off the southeast coast of Cyprus.
In his book Discovery of Atlantis, Sarmast argued Cyprus was once part of that lost continent -- at its highest peak -- and said his findings matched almost perfectly every clue in the philosopher Plato's description of the legendary city state.
Plato's famed account in Timaeus and Critias is the sole source of the Atlantis myth dating back to 9000 BC.
The privately-funded 200,000-dollar expedition seeks to confound sceptics by bringing back scientific side-scan sonar data which supports evidence revealing man-made structures such as a three-kilometre (two-mile) wall.
Plato said an epochal flood "swallowed up" the mountainous island of Atlantis.
Other theories place the lost civilisation in the South China Sea, the Azores, the Aegean or the Atlantic Ocean. Greek mythology has it Atlantis was destroyed as punishment by Zeus for the greed and corruption that befell the city.
My bet is on the Atlantic Ocean.
Germans and spewing...how appropriate.
MV
The original claim/article.
My money is on the South China Sea, Sundaland.
You have several clues. First of all there's a city, in a lake, that meets all the requirements. Secondly that city is in the area where coca was first domesticated to provide high levels of cocaine. Thirdly, Egyptian mummies of the time have cocaine in the body's tissue cells.
We also find a similar site in Southern Portugual. It's laid out just like the place in the Andes.
Quite logically the Andean dope dealers sought markets around the world. They built settlements to support the transport of their product.
The business was so successful it's still operating!
As long as we're betting - I'd say Lake Eerie
What does a physicist know about under-sea archeology and for that matter....under sea geology? What makes this Physicist such an expert that he disputes the American?
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In 360 B.C. Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson believes the Greek philosopher based his geographic description on Ireland (shown above in a satellite image).
My bet is that it wasn't Zeus.
You're not the only one who thinks this. Jim Allen has the below linked site, a book and a pretty good one hour documentary on this. There was a lot more going on in South America in prehistory times than most can/will admit.
I would choose SA or the Caribbean as a site for Atlantis over anything in the Mediterranean or Europe. I'm leaning toward Sundaland these days though.
The Altiplano in the Andes.
Ka-ching! Mine too.
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I tend to think Atlantis was in Southeast Asia, Sundaland. I always think there was a lost civilization that pre-dates the first known civilization, which was very advanced.
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