On this theory, entire cities ended up underwater after sea levels rose towards the end of the last Ice Age, a date cited by Plato as being some 9,600 years ago.
Now why the hell would the author cite Plato, a Greek philosopher who shuffled off this mortal coil centuries B.C. as an authority on when the end of the Ice Age occured?
"Now why the hell would the author cite Plato, a Greek philosopher who shuffled off this mortal coil centuries B.C. as an authority on when the end of the Ice Age occured?"
He was trying to make an Atlantis connection, underwater cities and all.