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.

[a_Turk]

Soon as we stop being puppets in the hands of those who prefer to keep us down we will be able to get rich together.

We did well together hundreds of years ago, and we can do so again, this time as two sovereign nations but working together like all those years ago.

That day will come, just so long as our people keep improving their education there isn't fresh intercommunal violence to keep the silly hatered going.

[ctonious]

Reminds me of the old saw about the drunk looking for his car keys under a lamppost. A buddy asks him why's he only looking there. And the Establishment archaeologist says, "It's...because it's the only place I can conceive."

[Rebelbase]

An Atlantis themed restaurant in my city bombed horribly.

[bwteim]

An Atlantis themed restaurant in my city bombed horribly.

You be bad...

[aruanan]

"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."

Sort of like the Hittites. Stevie's a dope.