Could this be atlantis? seriously.

[AmericanGeneral]

It seems this guy might have actually found atlantis near southern spain... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3766863.stm

 

[Xen]

seems interestng- I've long been a proponent of Atlantis being equatable with the sea people- though my own thoughts center around the Minoans- or even th"proto-e Etruscans", since they are mention by name by Plato, or some other of the several culture in between and around them- Sardinia is known to hae contrbuted to the sea people raids (but then so are the Etruscans and mycenaenas, and perhaps the Minoans- since of all people in the med, it was they who would have been most givfted in seaborne raids)

I really hope it gets a dig of its own

 

[Amenhotep7]

Cool! I wonder if this shall spur on underwater-tourism?

 

[stormbind]

Interesting; I would like to see it excavated. There are several contenders for Atlantis though, so I don't think it should be named yet.

 

[NeoDemocrat]

Interesting; I would like to see it excavated. There are several contenders for Atlantis though, so I don't think it should be named yet.

I agree.. but regardlessif it is Atlantis or not, it is still an amazing discovery! Imagine, Atlantean pottery shards and things of the sort. Sounds very, very cool

 

[Birdjaguar]

At least the contention is reasonable and one that can be checked out. I lean towards santorini, until something better comes along.

 

[NeoDemocrat]

Santorini never went under the ocean... did part of it? I don't know, please do tell

 

[North King]

Santorini never went under the ocean... did part of it? I don't know, please do tell

It blew up in a volcanic eruption, and the supposition was that later visitors came and surmised the empty crater had sunk into the sea.

I personally lean towards the refilling of the Red or Black seas as Atlantis flood myth basis.

 

[Esckey]

There's also that whole Inca thingy, with Lake something or other up in the Andes. My money is more on Santorini, just cause of the paintings on the walls that they've escavated

 

[Verbose]

Inca thingy, with Lake something or other up in the Andes.

Titicaca.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Very interesting. Although the location would not be too surprising, there'd been some proponents of an Atantis in S Spain before (the Tartessos, Tarshish theory).

Let's hope this leads to... something...

 

[Adler17]

Atlantis is supposed to be in East Prussia, Helgoland, Spain, Troy, Santorin, Bahamas, Bolivia and many other places. All over the world are myths about Atlantis. Atlantis has many names including Avalon and Albion. The Atztecs and some other Indian tribes believed to be descendants of a power in the east which had to flee of a big flood. And Plato says, that Atlantis had colonies all obver the world, but the exact place of Atlantis would be out off Gibraltar. So I think it is in the Atlantic ocean now. There should be searched. There were some mysterious relicts found 40 years ago, but after that the thing was forgotten. No. Although Plato got his infos by Egyptian priests who are as good as today tourists guides, the datas are too exact to doubt that it was not off Gibraltar.

Adler

 

[Xen]

Plato said that Atlantis had conqoured the western mediterrean up to about Egpt and Etruria- the same borders (if you exclude Greece/Crete and Anatolia) of the fabeld sea peoples- moreover, the Arthurian legend of Avalon (which is spawned off the name Albion, the greek name for at least England proper) dos enot stretch back far enough to even be connected indirectlyl with Platos dialogues- as for Prussia, the neworld and othe rconnections- no more then fantasy, based off of the eccentric and occultic type "new culture" that has uo grown for the last century and a half, highlly base don raceism and eugenics as it is. IMO, the atlantis connection with anything not based DIRECTLLY of Platos diologues on the subject is made up, or mis-intereperted fantasy- and as for the name connection, in which there similer names for the same thing- every language has at least one word for "mother" that begins with the letter M- some things in laguage are just universal

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Maybe Atlantis was Tartessos after all. It was a very rich ancient misterious civilization in western Andalucia.

I have seem some tartessic relics of Argantonio (700- 600 B.C I think), last monarch of Tartessos (and the only one we know historically), in a musseum of Sevilla. All them of pure gold.

 

[Adler17]

I do think that Tartessos was once a big power. However I do not think it is Atlantis. There must be a new Heinrich Schliemann to find Atlantis. Perhaps he is already born, or perhaps several centuries will come until someone will find Atlantis. Homer´s Troy was also a myth- until Schliemann. And what about the palace of king Minos? Or the recently found heirs of the Amazons?

Adler

 

[yaroslav]

It's probably the most important natural park of Spain, and even, of the European Mediterranean coast. I doubt somebody will get authorized to dig there.

 

[Esckey]

Or the recently found heirs of the Amazons?

To quote Manuel: Que?

 

[Stefan Haertel]

The starting point for a search for Atlantis should be in Egypt, since that's where the whole hype started. Everything else is probably pure guesswork. For example, this theory of mine could be convincing if properly researched:

The Sumerians had a myth about a Great Flood, just like the people who believe in the Old Testament (Jews, Christians, Muslims). Some vague knowledge of this, combined with better knowledge of Sumerian or Mesopotamian cities could easily be the origin of the myth considering the facts that Sumerian/Mesopotamian cities were near or surrounded by rivers. This also supports the idea that Atlantis was built in rings, as the structure of a ziqqurat may imply.
Even the description of orichalcum is supported by this. I know that there is nowadays a definition of orichalcum, but I'm not sure if this is what was originally meant. It could either be amber -which probably led some to think that it could also be somewhere in the Baltic sea, but there was already amber trade several millenia BC- bronze, which originated in Mesopotamia, or even iron. Depending on when the myth originated, which probably no-one can tell as it's origin was likely oral tradition, it could even be simple copper.
I personally believe that the Atlantis myth is most probably a very obscured memory of something known or unknown to modern-day historians. It was already obscured by the time Plato wrote it down, although I believe Plato was responsible for some more misunderstandings.
The romantic inside of me of course wants to believe that Atlantis was the way Plato described it, or at least similar to that, but the realist knows that this is likely not the case.

 

[Adler17]

In Russia Archaelogists found graves in which female warriors lived. DNA analysists compared the DNA with a Kazhak tribe and found it there. So the Kazhaks or at least a few tribes are the heirs of the Amazons the Greek told us.

Adler

 

[Xen]

well, not actually the "heirs of the amazons"- the amazons didnt esist, rather it known that the skythian culture did not dispermit (as was the custom in mosat of the world at the time) woman having weapons- however- they were not the female dominated, male slave, right brest cutting amazons tribes that were the tale of Greek Lore. Most legends have a root in reality- that dosent mean once the truth is found that the legend should be forwarded as truth however.