Researcher says he's found sunken site of Atlantis

Boston Globe ^ | 10/11/03 | Helena Smith

[aristotleman]

ATHENS -- After nearly 10 years of study, a US researcher says he has assembled evidence to prove that the fabled lost island of Atlantis existed off the shores of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.

Robert Sarmast says Atlantis was not simply a figment of the imagination of the Greek philosopher Plato, who vividly described the seafaring civilization and how it had been "swallowed up by the earth," but a real place replete with stone temples, bridges, canals, and roads.

[Vladivostok]

"Atlantis is a myth, a literary construct of a far-off world, a perfect golden age,"

Like Camelot.

I was thinking more like "The Village," I guess it was the golden age (retirement) that made me think of Number 6. Bottom-line, one person's paradise is another's hell - so wasting time looking for some earthquake doomed old pile of rocks, that may have had a few farmer's daughters milking goats on it, if it ever supported life, is nothing more than an effort at milking the system for grant money.

[blam]

Thanks for the ping...we've covered this one a couple times.

The Search For Atlantis 'Ends At Ayia Napa' (Cyprus)

[blam]

"I think if it were near Cyprus, Plato would have said, "It was over there by Cyprus."

This one won't fly."

LOL, I agree.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Atlantis is a myth, a literary construct of a far-off world, a perfect golden age," said Stephen V. Tracy, director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. "To try and demythologize it by finding the actual place is simply wrong-headed. Good literature resonates with people, but myths such as this are meant to be symbolic."

Academics NEVER learn from the past, do they. One would think that one teaching in Greece just MIGHT remember that they once said the same exact thing about Troy.

[Vladivostok]

Any city at sea level 10,000 years ago is now at least 400 feet down.

Darn that global warming! Hey, they say if we cut the CO2 according to what the environmentalists say is needed, that coastal cities will be under 100' of ice by next century. Looks like it's swim or freeze in igloos, I'll take swim, he said as he started up a couple of SUVs for good practice :-)

[Malcolm]

If there was an "Atlantis," it was either a small island that sunk, or it is the present day American land mass in the western hemisphere, that split from Europe/Africa in ancient times. I base that on the "days of Peleg." Don't wish to discuss/argue that point here, life is too short. Do a search on the phrase I listed above; that will give you the source of my belief.....

[blam]

"nothing more than an effort at milking the system for grant money."

Nah, don't think so. The reason we know so little about Atlantis is because it was so far in the past...maybe 9,000 years .

[concerned about politics]

I think Atlantis is really Antarctica... and vice versa. ;)

Well, at least they both start with the letter "A". There's more proof in your theory than I've seen so far.

[concerned about politics]

Academics NEVER learn from the past, do they.

No, they don't. They teach liberalism, forgetting the fate of Babylon.

[night reader]

Like Camelot.

Aw, gee! You don't mean to tell me that Arthur's Camelot is a myth. Now, it's known that Kennedy's Camelot was fraudulent, but surely not Arthur's.

[Davea]

Atlantis

Donovan





The continent of Atlantis was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So great an area of land,
That from her western shores
Those beautiful sailors journeyed
To the South and the North Americas with ease,
In their ships with painted sails.
To them East Africa was a neighbour,
Across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is

But a remnant of The Atlantian culture.
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from far Atlantis.

Knowing her fate,
Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.
On board were the Twelve:

The poet, the physician, The farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were -
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice
And let us sing
And dance and ring in the new Hail Atlantis!

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
I wanna see you some day
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
My antediluvian baby,
My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,
Girl, I wanna see you some day.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah
I wanna see you some day, oh My antediluvian baby.
My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you
My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone
I wanna see you some day Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up,
oh yeah Oh club club, down down, yeah
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

[monkey]

Plato would have said, "It was over there by Cyprus."

Not quite beyond the Pillars of Hercules, is it?

[ctonious]

I think if it were near Cyprus, Plato would have said, "It was over there by Cyprus." This one won't fly.

Agreed. Next he'll claim he's found the Ark in Cleveland.

[Socratic]

'"Atlantis's legend is nonsense but even more stupid is repeatedly finding it in the Mediterrananean ..."

And where should it be? Plato rarely vacationed in Bermuda.'

I think that anyone would find it difficult to squeeze the areas of Libya and Asia into the space of the eastern Mediterranian - even if one considers ancient Libya to be half its present size, and Asia to be just the size of modern Turkey.

[wolficatZ]

I saw Atlantis in "Hercules and the Captive Women"!

[Vladivostok]

The reason we know so little about Atlantis is because it was so far in the past...maybe 9,000 years .

I may have been too esoteric, what I meant was we know nothing because there is nothing to know when chasing myths. Hence, the milking of grant money - but it is acknowledged that he may find something unrelated to the myth that may bring some value from the research.

[P.O.E.]

A-shimmay, a-shimmay, a she may....

[KantianBurke]

[Conan the Librarian]

Thou has hit the proverbial nail on its proverbial head.

[freedomfighter7]

Well you're all wrong as far as I am concerned. God sunk it, along with all the other Atlantis' during the Great Flood of Noah. Read the oldest and most well read manuscripts of all time, the King James Version bible and you shall find the resolve of much speculation.