ATLANTIS DISCOVERED?

DAILY MAIL ^ | Aug 21, 2004 | Colin Wilson

[robowombat]

Some really late news.

[ncountylee]

Have the Muslims claimed this as their holy place number 666, yet?

[RockinRight]

Actually, it was just Michael Moore swimming in Myrtle Beach.

[Cyclone59]

No, that would be the cause of the American Tsunami

[Mr. Mojo]

Wish I had a dollar for every "Atlantis Discovered" and "al-Zarqawi Dead" headline.

[Semper Paratus]

I thought it was in Nassau?

[RetiredArmy]

It is in Georgia. Atlanta, GA. Oh, wait, it said Atlantis! Never mind. My bad! :)

[freedom4ever]

That was my thought. They have found Atlantis as many times as Zarqawi has been killed.

[johnny7]

I don't buy that Atlantis was in the Mediteranean... Plato said it was BEYOND the Pillars of Hercules. If it existed... it was in the Atlantic.

[Calusa]

How 'bout Akro-titty I mean Akrotiri on the volcanic island of Thera near Greece and Crete.

[FlipWilson]

Quote: "Wish I had a dollar for every "Atlantis Discovered" and "al-Zarqawi Dead" headline."

Was this Atlantis that was discovered or just one of Atlantis' Chief Lieutenants?

[Semper Paratus]

How 'bout Akro-titty I mean Akrotiri on the volcanic island of Thera near Greece and Crete.

I'm pretty Atlantis died in a massive volconic explosion in that area.

[SlowBoat407]

I'm pretty Atlantis died in a massive volconic explosion in that area.

You are probably correct about Atlantis. I don't know if you're pretty or not. I'll have to take your word for it.

[KellyAdmirer]

The ancients knew all about Cyprus. If Egyptian priests are the source of the story, or Plato himself, they would have said, "It was over there on Cyprus."

I like how these theories take some facts from Plato as gospel and throw out the inconvenient facts to fit the new theories.

The idea that Atlantis was in Southern Spain makes the most sense to me, but nobody knows. If this guy goes wandering around Cyprus and finds concentric canals and the ruins of Atlantis, well, my hat is off to him, since people have been tramping over that island ever since Atlantean times without finding them.

[Semper Paratus]

I don't know if you're pretty or not.

Just don't call me Shirley!

[KellyAdmirer]

Santorini is another name for Thera.

[camle]

VEY SERIES. HUGH!

[Fractal Trader]

GGG Ping -- I thought Atlantis was buried off the coast of Cuba

[newfreep]

Time for that Donovan song....

[Phsstpok]

there is more than one landmark in the Med referred to as the "pillars of Hercules." The mouth of the Med at Gibralter was not commonly referred to as anything in Plato's time, as that was "out there." Far more common was to refer to a formation of islands in the Aegean along one of the common trade routes by that name.