silver 2039
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@Xenocrates yes those lines are in the Mahbartha, they eerily are similar to the effects of a nuclear explosion. Also there are flying chariots mentioned in Ramayana that resemble aeroplanes.
The guy from Finland who said it was there .....I won't even quote it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ior_Bock wow ...just wow
There was probably was more than one "civilization" that was flooded and submerged. The most likely source of these legends came from the end of the Ice Age, with the rising of sea levels. However, there were plenty of other climate disasters to give rise to the myth, located throughout history; as recently as the 15th Century or so. The pervasiveness of the myth indicates strongly that there was not just one civilization that submerged, but many, thus, there are probably quite a few sites that can be called Atlantises.
I believe Plato heard it from his grandfather, who in turn heard it from Solon, who heard it from the Egyptians.What i want to know is that is there any stories of the Atlantis in writings before Plato's dialogues?
They've already said the Antarctica was Atlantis. Or rather Atlantis is now Antarctica.Swedishguy said:I suspect they will find Atlantis around the Antarktis coast pretty soon.
Quite possible. Tertessos: definitely. Thera: definitely. Crete: not so sure. Could find better place. Which, in turn, is the problem to begin with, isn't it?Quite so.
It is generally recognised that Robin Hood arose from the combination of three separate myths.
And I think that Atlantis likely arose from a combination of perhaps:
(a) Thera
(b) Crete
(c) Tartessos
I believe Plato heard it from his grandfather, who in turn heard it from the Egyptians. There is also a discrepency in the date, something about how it was interpreted wrong, and it should have been 900 BC instead of 9000 BC.
That error would only make sense if they were using the AD/BC system, which they of course weren't back then.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Atlantis/timaeus_and_critias.htmlKnowledge of the distant past apparently forgotten to the Athenians of Plato's day, the story of Atlantis was conveyed to Solon by Egyptian priests. Solon passed the tale to Dropides, the great-grandfather of Critias. Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.
Atlantis will never be found simply because by now it would be unrecognizable, it's sitting in a place that we have ony explored a frcation of, if we do find anything that could be it the site will most likely be nothing more than a pile of rubble
i just heard a commercial for "digging for the truth" where they found atlantis does anybody out there believe they have found it?
Dont beileve everything you see on TV. Especially not commercials.![]()
how will you know that you found Atlanti though?, archeologists had a pretty good idea as to where Troy was, and it was easier to identify that it was troy because of the cultures. no one can agree where Atlantis was, if it existed, if it had it's own culture, or was influenced. We may find it, but if we do how will we know that we did?
The History Channel tends to be pretty trustworthy.
there are a million myths out there, Atlantis ha only survived becuase it is fascinating, for all that is actually know it could have been a small island in the Med that was lost and presumed to have flooded. Maybe the island had a earthquake and was lost. Atlantis might not have ever existed also, it could all be a myth, along with millions of other tales. I need some proof abou7t Atlantis first, maybe a stone sign underwater, or a carving or something. Heck if one of the myths i've heard is true about them having electricity, maybe a lightbulb.