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Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found
Yahoo News ^ | 12 mar 2011 | Zach Howard

Posted on 03/12/2011 3:40:55 PM PST by mandaladon

NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) – 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.

"This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.

"It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.

To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.

Freund's discovery in central Spain of a strange series of "memorial cities," built in Atlantis' image by its refugees after the city's likely destruction by a tsunami, gave researchers added proof and confidence, he said.

Atlantis residents who did not perish in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities there, he added.

The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.

While it is hard to know with certainty that the site in Spain in Atlantis, Freund said the "twist" of finding the memorial cities makes him confident Atlantis was buried in the mud flats on Spain's southern coast.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantis; cadiz; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; richardfreund; samothrace; spain; tsunami
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To: 21twelve
Which fit fairly well with that old map. Cool stuff.

So true. The skill and accuracy of ancient mapmakers is itself a fascinating thing. THEY didn't need GPS!
41 posted on 03/12/2011 6:48:07 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: PIF

Paraphrasing Einstein: “Time is relative”.


42 posted on 03/12/2011 6:51:48 PM PST by BipolarBob (I'm BiPolar,BiWinning AND have a clean drug test. Questions? Call 1-800-CharlieSheen)
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To: LostInBayport

Comparing the ancient map of Atlantis with the ground (underneath the ice at Antarctica) was supposed to be a match according to some scientist, but I don’t have the link or the name. I just remember reading about it. You might Google it.


43 posted on 03/12/2011 6:56:18 PM PST by BipolarBob (I'm BiPolar,BiWinning AND have a clean drug test. Questions? Call 1-800-CharlieSheen)
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To: mandaladon

btt


44 posted on 03/12/2011 7:24:36 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: mandaladon

In a past life I had to travel a lot and I got tired of always having to change planes in Atlantis.


45 posted on 03/12/2011 7:27:12 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: mandaladon; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono
Not a terribly encouraging report from an insider about the females of Atlantis!
46 posted on 03/12/2011 7:30:17 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Thank you. Knew there was something coming up.


47 posted on 03/12/2011 8:25:45 PM PST by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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To: mandaladon; SunkenCiv
I spent quite a bit of time examining -- in overall "pattern view" and in great detail -- those Doñana Marshes. Didn't see any sign of Atlantis, but I will admit that the place has some of the absolutely weirdest terrain I have ever seen!

FYI & FWIW, the place is not "just north of Cadiz" -- it is some 30-odd miles NNW of Cadiz...

48 posted on 03/12/2011 8:26:40 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: BipolarBob; PIF
"Antarctica. A continent and buried under (frozen) water."

I used to think that too.

But under the ice, much of which goes all the way to the sea-floor, Antarctica's actual geography is less monolithic.

This article, which I find easily by searching for "if all the ice melts", is interesting in its own right, but also has a map of what Antarctica would look like "if all the ice melted".

It's smaller than Australia, with many islands and an archipelago.

49 posted on 03/12/2011 8:47:57 PM PST by NicknamedBob (I get my exercise. I take my vitamins. I tell pain it can come along, but it'll have to ride in back)
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To: mandaladon

I have the special set for dvr, but I am fully expecting a bunch of BS.


50 posted on 03/12/2011 8:53:52 PM PST by wolfman23601
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To: mandaladon

Atlantis isn’t gone.

I was there last week. I got my kid a t-shirt that says, “My parents went to Atlantis and all I got was this damn shirt.”

It has some great casinoes and Donald Trump is the man!


51 posted on 03/12/2011 10:08:27 PM PST by Jonty30
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To: mandaladon

Announcements of the discovery of the true location of Atlantis are about as frequent as the announcements of the discovery of Noah’s ark and just as credible. Headlines and breathless announcements are used by researchers to chase grant money, lecture circuit fees and sell books.

The most intriguing thing I’ve ever read about Atlantis was in Graham Hancock’s book “Underworld”. There’s compelling evidence that at the end of the last ice age, sea level didn’t rise gradually but in sudden major jumps. The great glaciers of the Northern hemisphere melted internally and acted as giant ice dams. The ice dams failed catastrophically and released one million or more cubic kilometers of water in probably the space of a few hours, causing sea level to jump world wide about 30 or more feet literally overnight. The last great glacial ice dam failure occurred around 11,500 years ago, at the end of the ice age. Solon, Plato’s relative, was told about the Atlantis legend by an Egyptian priest around 2500 years ago who said that Atlantis disappeared 9,000 years previous to their time. There’s an almost perfect match in the timelines.

Atlantis might be in much deeper water than a sudden 30 to 60 foot sea level rise would suggest. The enormous weight of the glaciers depressed the land under them around a half mile or so, causing other areas to bulge, probably including sea floor. The sudden removal of the pressure of the glacier would cause bulging areas to collapse as the land under the glacier isotatically rebounded.

I got the chills when I first read the above; Atlantis as described by Plato probably did indeed exist. I also find it remarkable that the legend may have survived 9,000 years or more through some combination of oral and written tradition.


52 posted on 03/12/2011 11:57:02 PM PST by KamperKen
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To: mandaladon

Area of Cadiz is quite plausible, always has been. Many others elsewhere also plausible.
Even the “collective memory” theory is plausible (e.g., Black Sea inundation).
That’s part of the allure of Atlantis, you can find it in so many places.
Ok, Cadiz is especially plausible because the Atlantic is a lot livelier than the Mediterranean...
But let’s have some PROOF.
(Doesn’t that look like an acronym? “Plausibility regardless, obtain observable facts.”)


53 posted on 03/13/2011 6:07:05 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: engrpat
Isn’t one of the History/Science channels having a special on this in the very near future? Any one know?

You are SO cynical. My eightball says "Without a doubt." Search "National Geographic Finding Atlantis" on youtube. It airs tonight.

54 posted on 03/13/2011 6:11:14 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: TXnMA

I didn’t look, because I figured those guys were just trying to get some publicity for their next grant requests, raise some money. I’m not saying it’s not smart, I’m just saying, they’re full of it. ;’) Tartessos is often said to be the same as the Biblical Tarshish, and to be in Spain, but that’s simply not true. That hasn’t stopped some pre-Roman stuff to be labelled as “Tartessian” though. :’)


55 posted on 03/13/2011 8:34:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Weird coincidence, eh? ;’)


56 posted on 03/13/2011 8:40:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!

I just got back from Atlantis, and boy are my fingers tired from holding my nose shut.


57 posted on 03/13/2011 8:40:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: sergeantdave

Sorry sergeantdave, but the Library of Alexandria hadn’t been built yet.


58 posted on 03/13/2011 8:43:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Revolting cat!

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59 posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: livius; mandaladon; BenLurkin; FormerACLUmember; DoughtyOne

Tarshish was Crete. Tartessos was probably the same place, but may have become equated with Tarshish by accident.

The so-called Tartessian culture in Iberia didn’t leave a deep imprint, as if it came and went in a generation or two, and no city site has ever been identified. Still, referencing Tartessos in dictionaries will still turn up the unsubstantiated claim that it was in the Guadalquivir valley. Again, there’s zero evidence of that.

The very interesting cultural remains and sites (like that excellent graphic of Dama de Elche, thanks for that) don’t even appear to be that closely related to each other, suggesting a period of settlement by a variety of outsiders, who then had to leave for some reason, were driven out, died off some way, etc.

The Dama de Elche bears closest resemblance to the terracotta masterpieces of the Etruscans, perhaps the artist came from there, or had travelled there and was influenced by it. The Etruscans themselves came from further east, and (even for those who don’t accept that) they were influenced by Ionian Greeks, probably due to trade and having been their neighbors at one time, in Anatolia and the Aegean.


60 posted on 03/13/2011 9:07:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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