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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GGG Ping
A couple of months ago it was Ireland. They need to find actual evidence of a civilization there.
Last year it was off the coast of Cuba. I wonder where it'll be next year?
3 to 1 that it's really Kerry's Campaign Plan down there...
When they find the Yette, they'll see that the lost city is the Yette's mountain hideaway.
I think it was a chain, like Pizza Hut.
---gee whiz---Clive Cussler was wrong---
Maybe Atlantis outsourced itself and that's why it keeps popping up all over the place.
Seriously, we all know it's really in another galaxy, but we'd have to get through the Wraiths first.
So, let's see if we can total this up...Is this person number 10,000 or person number 10,000,000 who has claimed to have found Atlantis? :o)
They might have found a lost island somewhere... but where do they have evidence it is Atlantis?
We need to drain Lake Michigan to find it
What I want to know is where these guys are getting all of the money to hunt for something that may never have existed! What if Plato just made it all up?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=atlantis&ok=Search&q=deep&m=all&o=time&SX=4198227995abaf8f4b7dabcb7ecff87aae3c82de
yeah, great, but well where in the he11 is the remote?
Are we talking about Atlantis or Jimmy Hoffa's body or perhaps Al Capone's hidden safes?
Ping
Either that, or it's the Rose Law Firm billing records along with the answer to "who hired Craig Livingstone"...
Great news! Can all those depressed liberals immigrate?
No, the alien ship that brought human-kind to this planey 7,000 years ago
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