Who is the foremost expert on Atlantis (the lost continent)?

Don't know if he is the foremost expert but Dr AC Ross is knowledgeable.

Nobody. There are three different strains of "knowledge" about Atlantis which contradict each other.

Plato published a story he claimed was handed down in has family through papers left by his ancestor Solon the Lawgiver some 200 years before. This story has been studied and developed by philosophers ever since.

In the nineteenth Century occultists such as Madame Blavatsky and W.Scott-Elliot began developing it with their theories of Theosophy and spiritualism. What Edgar Cayce said should be seen in this context.

Also in the nineteenth century Popular Science Advocates like Ignatius Donnelly, who I almost classed with the Occultists, and Lewis Spence, who was influenced by the Occultists. Recently some scientists have attempted to rebut this with their own theories (like "Atlantis is Santorini" which most scientists agree is probably a simplistic view of things) while many popular science advocates have gotten more sophisticated.

Nobody involved is not controversial. Charges of fraud against Madame Blavatsky, for example, appear to be well-founded, but at the same time so is -- allegedly altered -- access to esoteric doctrines (she had a Sikh patron about whom some interesting stories have been told). There really isn't room to reconcile all these diverse theories, opinions and approaches to the subject, so there is nobody we can say is a foremost expert on any of them.

notrealland

Milo Thatch (Joke joke. You know, from the cartoon "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"?) I think it was Nicholas Christian.

Plato and btw, it's not the lost continent..

the lost continent is Lemuria.

Atlantis & Lemuria? Lost Civilizations?

Hi Guys, Recently I read some books on these two lost civilizations...

Well I find it quite Fascinating. I have a friend who basically got me started on this, He believes he has lived in Atlantis in a past life. Well I decided to research this stuff and wanted to Find out who else believes that these places existed and what are your theories/Ideas on what happened to them? Do you know anyone who also believes that the are from those places etc?

I just want to know your thoughts on these places?

Thanks

Edgar Cayce claimed to have lived during the exodus from Atlantis. W. Scott-Elliot wrote a history of Atlantis claiming (he was ambiguous on the point as this was the nineteen-twenties) it was the product of either Channeling or past life regression.

Frankly, though, Lemuria was first discussed as a lost civilization by Madame Blavatsky, who should be regarded with caution as a source of information. She claimed it was inhabited by a pre-human race from which we are ultimately descended. Rudolf Steiner, who does owe a lot to her, discussed it claiming the authority of the Akashic Records and suggesting that there was reincarnation from those days, but also claiming its inhabitants were pre-human. I would treat the stories about it with suspicion.

I believe in past lives and it is possible. It is one thing if your friend thinks he lives there before. It's better if he can recall his life, name and everything there. I have read about both as well. Atlantis of course was the empty void of the Atlantic Ocean whereas Lemuria was somewhere around Oceania. I don't know anyone who thinks they have been there before though. Imagine when the big one finally happens and we finally lose California; I think generations thousands of years later will wonder if it existed but we have better record keeping now so that probably won't be the case, lol.

yes, they both existed.

atlantis was in the atlantic and was destroyed by earthquakes 20 thousand years ago. the mayans and the gypsies are some of the folks who left before the cataclysm.

lemuria was in the south pacific and was destroyed by earthquakes 40 thousand years ago, the japanese and the american indian are some of the folks who left before that long lost continent was destroyed.

You should know by my avatar what I believe. My sister and best friend were there as well. I have vague recollections of it, but do remember Atlantis as being very beautiful. What I recall the most was when the big rock walls came crashing down in the end. I don't have a clue about Lemuria.

Atlantis: REAL

Lemuria: Not real

Lost island is Atlantis?

Do you think the Island from Lost is actually Atlantis?

Also do you think Amelia Earhart crashed on the Island?

1. No

2. No

i dont think she did. i think all the references to her just gives the impression of how mysterious the island is.....but there is an other called amelia she was in juliettes book club the older lady so who knows:)

1. No, but it may be the famed fountain of youth

2. I hadn't thought of that, but she could have, seeing that she disappeared over the south pacific. the island does seem to attract crash landings and has a lot of magnetic pull...

Do you know if the lost city of Atlantis is suppose to rise soon?

I think it's still in the pegasus galaxy. it shouldn't be here for some time

it isnt gonna rise..you have to go through a stargate to get to it but once you go through your stuck there...watch out for lifesucking zombie creeps.

that would be cool, a nice book idea too, they would have to wait for our technology to catch up to theirs first, right?

I have heard rumors and such of it doing so. I remember one of which it was to rise out of the ocean along with some land bridge thing. I've had dreams and such that were similar if that has any bearing. However, I would suggest if this is true and is to happen soon, the world is about to get a lot more interesting ;-)

Edgar Cayce said it would rise in 2000, and also that he would rise with it.

Atlantis rising is most likely a euphamism for a period of enlightenment rising in the future.

I wonder if it has anything to do with that 2012 thing?

Edgar Cayce made a prediction on this.I cant remember when he said though.Look him up on the web and it might tell you.

it's supposed to rise?

im pretty sure it isnt

Will the lost Atlantis appear again? Is it in Sunda island?

I have heard that it will arise in the next 15-20 years, also Mu ( Lemuria- a continent in the Pacific ocean) will rise as well. But that will be after a great earth quake

depends on ur belief

Well.....if you believe that King Arthur was of Atlantean decent and that when he was mortally wounded was takes back to Atlantis/Avalon, to await the day when Britains need is greatest...then yes.

But if you believe that Atlantis was drowned in the Flood myths then .... no.

Where on the internet can i watch stargate atlantis THE LOST TRIBE?

the one with michael shank

Hello there!

You can watch a bunch of Stargate Atlantis on Fancast:

http://www.fancast.com/tv/Stargate%3A-Atlantis/93280/full-episodes

Free, streaming and legal!

Hope that helps!

Try at www.freewatchtv,info.

They have giant library, absolutely very high quality pictures. I think just easy to find The lost tribe from them. Need to download their video player first for search, watch online or download to burn later. Free and anti spy ware. Good luck.

you can't

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/204.html

have you tried youtube

have u tried www.alluc.org !

Where is the lost city of Atlantis supposed to be

I am not sure if this question should be in paranormal or in mythological and folklore. So since many here are scientifically minded, I thought I would try here first.

Also, it would be great if you would quote any sources you have, so I can do more research on my own.

Thanks!

The island was originally named Atlantis because it was thought to have been in the Atlantic ocean off of the coast of Spain near Africa. I have seen two other theories on what Atlantis was and where it was located.

Plato was the first to record information about Atlantis, and it was mythical even in his time. He spoke of an island that was just beyond a "gateway". There have been questions about where the story was first told, and some believe that, instead of being in the Atlantic, as Plato describes, it was actually an island called Minoan Crete which was in the Mediterainian Sea. The lifestyle of the residents of this island is very like that described by Plato. See the third link below for archeological evidence for this theory.

Another theory that I heard was related by geologists. It states that Antartica was at one time located near to the equator, and through very quick movements of the earth's crust, it the continent was rotated to the south pole. The mechanism had to do with the ice caps getting off balance and the fact that the crust of the earth is actually floating on top of a layer of magma. The rotation occurred very quickly (in a matter of weeks) and so, much of the civilization was lost. In this theory, Antartica was Atlantis.

It seems that the Mediterainian island is the most likely explanation, but given the progression of the descriptions over the years, I have to wonder whether all of them are more myth than fact. I hope this information was helpful!

The whereabouts of Atlantis has been a hot topic of debate for thousands of years. Homer (ancient greek philosopher, and writer) puts it behind the pillars of Hercules, which would be the island of Santorini, one of the Greek isles. You can see some of the ruins if you visit. What is left of the island is still beautiful, and the people are friendly. There is also the theory that all of the Greek isles were once connected, before the eruption of the volcano.

Edgar Cayce, founder of ARE at Virginia Beach, he was a great psychic of his day. He said that Atlantis was a series of islands that came all the way across from Greece down to Bimini in the Carribean. He prophesied that part of Atlantis would be discovered near Bimini in 1968, and there indeed was a road discovered there. Cayce passed away in 1947.

Some folks think they found it off the coast of the Bahamas in the Atlantic.

The "Bimini Road" structures are intersting - but I think the machined marble columns and arches are the give-away.

http://www.qsl.net/w5www/atlantis.html

A lot of the civilisations claim knowledge of this place.

I recon it was destroyed and sunk by massive nuclear explosions - similar to how the dead sea was formed.

There is evidence of intense heat - around 1100 degrees C - enough to melt rock on structures around the world. If Atlantis was sunk by such - it would have punched through a thin mantle - and caused volcanic activity.

Many theories, one being it was an island of the Italian coastline which dissolved into the sea after a volcanic eruption. Another that it was off the coast of san francisco. Too many theories, including one that it wasn't of this planet. Another that it was another name for heaven. Another that they destroyed themselves accidentally by way of manipulating the weather of the planet, -shirley maclaine's theory in her book 'out on a limb'.

No one knows if it's fact or fiction.

Edgar Cayce, the famous American psychic, had predicted that Atlantis would be found in the Bahamas. There have indeed been unusual rock formations found there, which some call the "Bimini Road." Some people think these are natural, others think they are man-made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQrmAbpSndg

This is a great video about atlantis.

I Think that is a made up story, but there is a place called Atlantis on the Bermuda Triangle.

It's in the Pegasus galaxy

Off the cost of Bimini and that isn't supposed that is fact.

Well Atlantis is in Atlantis.... which is underwater..... with a bunch of dead people...

Its Antarctica, we all know it..lol

If anyone really knew, they would have found it already . . . . .

Is Atlantis a modern lost city underneath the sea. Is it a legend or just pure imagination of it's existence?

Want to know if Atlantis City really existed before?

It is believed to have disappeared under the mediterraen following a volcanic eruption.

The roots of Atlantis can definitely be found in the Mediterranean. According to Plato's Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, Atlantis was an island continent, larger than Libya and Asia put together, which existed before the great biblical flood. Atlantis, according to Plato, was a civilized island continent which existed 9000 years before the "Golden Age" of Greece (479-414B.C.). Plato was writing in the fifth century B.C. This date corresponds with the evidence from geology, indicating that there was a worldwide flood in approximately 9600 B.C. drowning most of Europe and causing the seas to rise more than 200 feet all over the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean. Arab legends and the Koran also describe the Flood and the Book of Genesis gives explicit information about the watery demise of a pre-diluvian world. Arab stories place the Great Flood inside the Mediterranean, which makes it closer to Italy and Greece. However, Plato's story describes Atlantis beyond the
Gates of Hercules, a location corresponding to present day Gibraltar and Tangier. That is why I centered my own research in Spain, specifically Cadiz, where I worked with a team of divers for more than three decades to investigate and photograph evidence for Atlantis.

Certainly no cooperation has ever been given to Atlantis researchers by the scientific community. Most official agencies spurn Atlantis, since the discovery and validation of Atlantis would push back biblical history more than 5000 years, an anathema to purists who do not want change the status quo. The truth is that four cities lie underwater from Cadiz to Gibraltar, and these cities are submerged at least 120 feet and resting on the continental shelf. Using the yardarm of 10 feet for every 1000 years of recorded history, we can observe highly developed sunken cities, the remains of which are at least 9000 years old or older (see Internet Website www.web-hed.com.amra). If these remains are not Atlantis, then such evidence still requires that we acknowledge civilization's beginnings at least 5000 years before the earliest Egyptian cities.

At the time of the Great Flood, only 1% of all people on earth survived, probably ending up on Mt. Ararat in Turkey according to Biblical accounts. In fact, Jericho in the Holy Land, has been dated at 9200 B.C. which means that the survivors of Atlantis, may have stayed on the mountaintop for generations before descending the mountain to establish a sea level city similar to what they remembered about their ancestral home-Atlantis.

Legends of all peoples speak about the Great Flood, including the Navaho Indians of the American Southwest and the Mayas of Mexico. Ice cores taken at the North Pole also give evidence of the Great Flood of 9600 B.C. and inscriptions near Gibraltar show people escaping a flood in boats. The survivors of Atlantis are believed to have floated across Spain and across the Mediterranean. In fact, Sicily may have been an early Atlantean survival site as well as Malta and Cyprus, where evidence of advanced civilizations as old as 7500 B.C. have been identified. Some survivors of Atlantis also went as far north as present day Ireland and perhaps also drifted along what is now the Danube River in Northern Europe.

My own research was confined to Spain simply because there was so much speleologic evidence for Atlantis in Iberia as well inscriptions and old textbook materials, some of which were more than 1500 years old and were written in medieval or archaic Spanish. These materials, many of them in private collections, added to my on-site research and led me to believe that Atlantis was indeed a reality. Yet, I was amazed to find that information about Atlantis had been withheld from the general public because of its controversial nature within the religious and scientific communities. It has often been pointed out that religion and science are equally dogmatic in their ideas and highly resistant to change. Evidence about Atlantis has been observed in sequestered archives of the Vatican Library and in the monasteries in Monte Cassino in the north of Italy. It is also a well publicized fact that when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948, both the Christians and the Jews wit
hheld large portions of the scrolls, as well as other books of the Old Testament, because of information about Atlantis that they did not wish to reveal.

Today, in the rapid pace of the twenty-first century, interest in Atlantis is at an all time high. A huge resort called Atlantis has been built in the Bahamas and is believed to be an exact replica of the lost continent. New books have emerged, discussing the issue of Atlantis and reports of Atlantis discoveries have increased on the Internet since 1998.

At present, plans are underway to build a large research center, museum and diving center in Spain devoted to Atlantis research. The discovery and validation of Atlantis may change the history books, as man rediscovers his origins and revises the chronology of the Bible. With space exploration now seen as a priority by many civilized nations, it is more than ever appropriate to dredge up new discoveries at the bottom of the ocean. These discoveries may provide a whole new field of interest for scientists and a complete revision of our cultural heritage.

The Atlantean Legend is possible. There were many cities in the ancient Mediterranean world, and many volcanos also! It is possible that the legend of Atlantis came from the absolute destruction of a decent-sized island city-state, taken out by a volcano or tsunami. It would be difficult to find artifacts from such a catastrophe, however. The destruction could have been total, and the civilization only remembered by its neighbors, who came on the wreckage later.

Remember Pompeii?

The island of Santorini is what's left of ancient Atlantis.

There are a lot of people who want to know this very answer. Youa re not alone.

The fact is that Plato wrote about it in detailed description. And no evidence has come about through extensive searches for a city that provides the same details that Plato stated.

There have been numberous statements of suggessted Atlantis sites. From the actually discovered city of Troy that did suffer a fate that was described by Homer in the Illyiad and shows remsembling evidence of water damage, to the Bermuda island with its odd roadways of stone under the water. Even locations as bizarre as South America with a circular man made lake, Coastal Spain with a city uncovered in ruins at the base of cliffs, a place in the Indian Ocean, that carries a simular story but with a different name and Antartica are all possible candidates for this search.

Some people have even uncovered Geneological facts regarding the Chinese along the African coast and they surmised that the Chinese with their vast knowledge of sailing ran aground near the Ivory Coast and the ship sank, forcing the surviving sailors to come to the nearest shore...they looked different acted different and could have even contained advance technologies to that culture that found them or traded with them. A mere mistranslation could have translated to the local people that their ship was a city.

Do not fear this question will remain one of the greatest mysteries left unsolved, it will be answered as long as people young and old ask this same question. Always keep searching and never give up.

Just remember that before you can make any acheological digs ya' gotta' know where you are digging at.

It never existed. It is, instead, a legend.

Legend. As simple as that.

Nice casino though.

Atlantis is a myth.

You needed to watch a show on the History Channel this past weekend. They talked about the Minoan culture on Crete and Santorini. We don't know their real name--they were named after King Minos by the man who first discovered the civilization in modern times. Their buildings were far advanced of anything else in the Mediterranian at the time. The Egyptians considered them to be the only other culture which was their equal. Plato described Atlantians to be higly advanced--the Minoans even knew how to build earthquake-resistant buildings. Plato said they had stone quarries of both red and white stone, which these islands do. They were also supposed to live in harmony with nature--archeologists are finding beautiful murals of natural scenes. But the entire society disappeared almost literally overnight in 1500 BC. That's because that's when the volcano on Santorini erupted. The most violent eruption we know of was Krakatoa in the late 1800's. The Santorini eruption wa
s at least 10 times that strong. It created an ash cloud about 1 1/2 miles across, which deposited ash as far away as the Nile delta. It blew away half the island of Santorini, and created a tidal wave that covered Crete, which was only 10 miles away. It toppled buildings down to their foundations, and killed all but a few Minoans, and since they were a peaceful society, those were easy pickings for their warlike neighbors. It happened long enough before Plato's time that there were probably not that many Greek records of it (the people are mentioned in Egyptian records), and it may have been considered almost legendary by his time.

Just a legend. Sorry!

how can it be a lost city that is modern? unless its being developed undersea which makes no sense.

They say that it's a myth, a legend, but I believe it to be a real place. I think, possibly, it may have been a volcanic island, or something of the sort, and that natural causes are the reasons it disappeared. Wish I could give you more information, but that's all I got.

I believe that it did exist at one time. There are a few sites that have been explored in suspect of once having been the city, but I don't think anyone has found it with certainty, yet. Though, there is one group who has an extremely plausible location that matches all of Plato's clues exactly. I keep hoping to hear more about their research, but last I heard, they ran out of grant money and were in the process of getting another grant.

Atlantis did exist, but is unclear where exactly the island was. Many people think it was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but recent evidence has come up that it was actually in the Mediterranean Sea and was posibly destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption like Pompey. The reason this can't be proven is because there are too many laws preventing any form of excavation in the waters hence no solid evidence.

Remember, people thought that the city of Troy never existed either and that was proven incorrect.

Do you believe that the lost city of Atlantis ever existed?

What if humans have reached great technological heights in the distant past and these ancient superpowers destroyed themselves in the ages of the different 'Root Races' long since past? Sounds crazy right? But there are some strange things that need explaining!

Like these heiroglyphics from Abydos:

http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/abydos.gif

http://www.bibleufo.com/Abydos%20jet.gif

These ancient mayan figurines:

http://www.dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art/deltafigs.jpg

Ancient crystal skulls:

http://www.ofspiritandsoul.com/images/pics_big/Crystal-Skull-museum.jpg

http://www.cam.net.uk/home/aaa315/events/brit-mus-skull.jpg

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6_1c.jpg

The Nazca lines:

http://library.sjsd.net/Images/nazca%20lines.gif

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/53/31/23203153.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/captainosmoteria/nazca_lines.jpg

The Ica Stones:

http://www.geocities.com/dominorus/ica_stone.jpg

Artifacts from ancient Sumeria:

http://www.alienvideo.net/images/articles/06-11/annunaiki%20-%20alien%20grey%20-%20gods%20of%20the%20summerians.jpg

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/01jan/annunaki.jpg

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/geocentrism/sumerian_artifact.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/area51/orion/3781/sumerian1.jpg

http://www.sitchin.com/

Ice-age nanotechnology from Russia:

http://www.mystae.com/streams/science/russcrew2.html

Strange Jomon figurines from Japan:

http://www.math.psu.edu/grutzman/pictures/cities/NewYork/museum/P310jomonFigure0664.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/JomonStatue.JPG/424px-JomonStatue.JPG

Thousands of ancient geoglyphs:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-7pJeHY-fLI

Why is the plethora of Chinese Pyramids so secret?:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UCAyg3-R9Aw

Some say J.R.R. Tolkien knew of these repetitive cycles when he wrote his Lord of the Rings Trilogy that started with the 'Armageddon' of the 2nd root race age (Hyperborea) and ended with the 'Armageddon' of the 3rd root race age (Lemuria) and the start of the fourth root race age (Atlanteans). Others say he was trying to warn us in a way. Like the eye of Sauron is similar to modern and ancient symbols:

http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpress/wp-content/sauron.jpg

http://www.cuttingedge.org/All-Seeing_Eye_Unfinished_Pyramid.jpg

http://www.crossroad.to/images/2002/symbols/eye-planet.jpg

http://store.higherheart.com/shopimages/products/normal/Eye-of-Horus-Pendant%20%20.jpg

Remember how Tolkien even had a resurrection during the 'Armageddon' of their Age of Middle Earth? But what do you think he meant by part two- The Two Towers? Were they related at all to artwork from ancient secret societies?

http://www.crystalinks.com/image46.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Major_16.jpg

http://gfx.tarot.com/about-tarot/library/boneill/Tower05.jpg

http://www.congregator.net/images/tower3.jpg

http://www.freewebs.com/grailhunters/diagnostics_1646_kircher,%20note%20how%20the%20One%20light%20manifests%20e.jpg

Digging up demonic 'orcs' is crazy right?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hbONIQfQmDU&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8b5Ea3dgK3c&feature=related

Nahhhhh... that's crazy... right???

Rosicrucians, many elitists and others believe in these 'Root Races' though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_race

idk.....but i do think that there was once an island that we dont know ever existed..........

Yes and it could have been completely destroyed by

1)natural disaster (floods, earth quakes, etc.)

2) conquered by aggressive people and killed off

No one really knows for sure.

if it is real, there was nothing magical about it. Just a wicked city god destroyed, like Sodom and Gomorrah, or Jerusalem

yes,i know it existed....

yes geological evidence exists

Atlantis appears in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. It's the only place that it does in any ancient literature. In reading the works it's clear the story is a lesson about what makes up an ideal society.

"While the bulk of Plato's account of Atlantis details its physical and political layout, its location and the nature of its destruction warrant only a few hundred words. It is a meagre foundation for the weight of subsequent theories and speculations on which the modern controversy is based"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/atlantis_01.shtml

Written in 348 BCE, the dialogues supposedly refer to a time 9,000 years ago when Atlantis sank.

So where's the evidence? No, not similarities in culture or language, good physical evidence.

Everything since Plato has been speculation, psychic divining, and wistful thinking. There's not been any evidence presented that is clearly linked to Atlantis.

I think it's possible. Think of Easter Island and those mysterious heads. Also, think of the ancient fish that was found that everyone believed had become extinct millions of years ago. There is a lot about the ocean & it's contents that we know nothing about, and if we do, the information is often very limited.

There's absolutely no proof that it does, and it's all based on an ancient Greek fable.

no its a myth

yes i just think it got flooded out and is in the ocean now

It is believed that Plato may have based the myth cityical of Atlantis on ancient Crete, which is the oldest European civilization known to exist. There are a few similarities in the story of Atlantis and the archaeological evidence we have about Crete.

But "Atlantis," as described by Plato, did not exist.

Yes. Where is was there are many theories. I read a convincing book that put it in antarctic. It might be true. It might also been a whole civilization which is now mostly underwater. There are pyrmids under the ocean off the coast of Cuba and other places like the seeming stone structures off the coast of Japan.

It could be possible

Yes, I Believe It Did; and apparently so did PLATO...!!

NO, it did not.

Atlantis was a large island, larger than Libia & Asia together lying in the Atlantic ocean beyond the pillars of Hercules, according to Plato the ancient Egyptians had the story of the disaster of Atlantis carved in hieroglyphics on the massive pillars of the great temple in Sa'i's. Now no one knows how long this great city and temple have been standing but it has been recorded since at least 3000 BC. and It was the royal capital for the twentysixth Dynasty of the Pharoes. Thats all I can tell you on the subject. Well ! it's all I've got time for.

Yes, and Acheron is the Apostolos

Is newark new jersey the remnants of the lost city of atlantis?

yes it is

No. Atlantis (in Greek "island of Atlas") is the name of a legendary island somewhere near the Mediterranean. Atlantis, lying "beyond the pillars of Heracles", was a naval power that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9500 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune."

No. Despite the presence of the New Jersey Medical School (which alone qualifies it as a strange and magical place) there is nothing to connect its tradition with that of the Sons of Poseidon and their subjects.

I am not trying to make fun of its history. It was in the Newark Public Library I first read about Appolonius of Tyana. While they no doubt have discarded G. R. S. Mead's strange and wonderful book, my relatives tell me it remains a very good place. And it is right next to the Newark Museum, one of many excellent small museums (like the RISD Museum in my native Providence, R.I.) we have in this country. Poet Amiri Baraka lives there, and has taught at Rutger's Newark Campus.

When I lived there during the eighties, University Hospital had the highest concentration of AIDS patients in the country. It was educational and sad that while the media was calling this an affluent gay white male disease such a catastrophe was occurring in a community which was none of those things.

Newark was where I had my first taste of Halal food. It really does have a rich vibrant culture, but I am afraid it has nothing to do with what happened about twelve thousand years ago. As a student of esoterica, I do recommend you go expose yourself to what it offers though.

Lost city of atlantis character?

what would be a good name for a character who lived in the lost city of atlantis!

Latin kryptics are fun: Beratu, Coberre, Valobe, Prega

Palias pa-li-as

Hyestaous Hye-sta-ous

Sephia Se-phia

Hope these are ok.

Siphon

Depends on what tack you're going for the theme of the city. "Atlantis" is itself a Latin-based word, so if you're sticking with that, any Latin name will work. If the inhabitants speak Norse, Greek, Egyptian, Mayan, whatever, the name should match their language.

"If the nation is called Eagleclaw, the capital should not be called X’ithcal, and the river upon whose shore it sits should not be named the Chijcothu’ru River. Names of related places should relate linguistically, generally speaking. If they don’t, it should be on purpose, as a way of indicating that the region was named by another civilization or species" - Rich Burlew, world designer.

Zues

Zora!

Do you believe in Atlantis : the lost empire?

I do. I'd be glad to hear your opinon.

I do believe that it did exist and like countless civilizations, it went to ruin. I believe it was similar to the city of Pompeii. If that city was never unearthed and studied then it would stay forgotten and only remembered through word of mouth. Atlantis has just not been discovered yet and it is unlikely that it every will if it's ruins lay under decades and decades of rising water levels.

I am skeptical about it, although, I do not deny the chances of Atlantis exsisting. The whole theory of the poles shifting and the seas draining and the lands flooding.. then it would make perfect sense for an incredible city once along the land, to be flooded by the shifting of the poles.

I think that most of what we call "history" is bunk and fairy stories anyway. People cant even agree what realy happend on recent major histoy making events what to speak of things which happend tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. How much of the story is propoganda or simply alegory I dont know,

but the sad old excuse: I only beleive in what trivial findings there are, and BS theories

needs some change

Bottom line: If you think it is real, there is a dam good chance it is

I believe that Atlantis really did exsist...but I dont think its exactly what we picture it as...maybe it exsists but its like undiscovered or undetectable...

I believe it was a city that died from some sort of natural disaster. However, I doubt they were technologically advanced.

Yes, I do believe it did exist. There was a show on the history channel the other day and I do believe it could be true.

Well, it was sunk as mosus crossed the coral sea. Yes it was.

No. It was just an example created by Plato in order to describe something else.

Yes....

no- plato made it up

Was the lost city of Atlantis discovered by the Mexicans or Texans at the Alamo?

No, that was Lemuria.

For asking this question, you deserve to lose 5 points. At least.

Many ppl clame to have "found" it in many different locations but there is no soild proof that it is even real.

In the book "Decipher" by Stel Pavlou, Atlantis is in Antarctica and is connected to pyramids all over the world by energy tunnels. In the book, the reason all these cultures who made pyramids of various kinds (including earthen mounds) all have similar flood myths is because this flood happened and the survivors made the pyramids because that's what their home of Atlantis was like.

I've already spoiled the book. Sorry.

there is a myth that where i live is the remains of atlantis, i find that rather cool.

No, Atlantis was found by the Beatles when they were out in the yellow submarine.

Is this a joke?

Stargate sg-1 found it.

There is a lost city in the ocean and it's not on Atlantis or in the Bermuda triangle?

Where and what is it? Who discovered it?

The city of Is from "Gulliver's Travels". Gulliver discovered Is on a voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan . The city is fictional of course as is Atlantis.

How can it be lost if they know were it is.

Where can i find/buy flute sheet music soundtracks to atlantis the lost empire/miyazaki's films?

i love the soundtracks to both an want them sooo bad! really pretty to. i found a website that has a book for miyazaki but don't know where to buy it. atlantis, don't have a clue if they even made an orchestra book.=(

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The lost Atlantis?

From secrets of the dead on PBS, about the discoveries Minoans...and what is your view on Atlantis?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/video-chapters/sinking-atlantis-chapter-1

you can check out this video, its really intriguing! and tell me what you think about it!

i think the bubbles that are in the burmuded triangle are the reason atlantis came down...its just a guess because if it pulls metal stuff to the ground how would any 1 see if atlantis is really down in the burmuda triangle...so ya thats my way of how atlantis went under AND y they never found it

The ONLY references to Atlantic originate with Plato, which is pretty much a slam dunk that he made the whole thing up. Likely inspired b the destruction of the Greek City of Helike which happened in his time and was big news, but forgotten now:

http://www.helike.org/

It will probably be found one day , as was Pompeii..

There have been plenty of catastrophes over the centuries that could explain what happened..

I have always been a believer in Atlantis. Some of it may be fake, but it probably exsited

The lost city Atlantis, Real theories?

I would like to hear some theories if you would.

And if someone could give me the dates/ explain the Atlantians and the pyramids that would be amazing thanks!

Atlantis is believed to have existed in the vicinity of the Tigres and Euphrates rivers. Plato mentions the Pillars of Hercules and what is really interesting is that many different cultures(in that area) refer to the same geographical location...even the Bible with the Garden of Eden.

Yes, Atlantis really did exist and was destroyed in a cataclysmic event, such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake, or both. Then there was a tsunami which finished the job.

the Atlanteans migrated to many different regions and even eventually got as far as the western hemisphere. It was a highly evolved culture which was destroyed due to natural forces, like many other ancient civilizations.

:-)

Oh by the way, the ancient city at the bottom of a lake near Mexico City is the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, and not necessarily Atlantis. However, many Atlantean societies evolved after the initial migration. Some were destroyed and others just...evolved!

Look up the Timaeus and the Critias-the Plato dialogues where Atlantis is discussed. Also, check out this website and google some others:

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/atlantis.html

According to the book Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend by J.V. Luce, Atlantis was the Minoan civilization which was destroyed by the eruption of the volcanic caldera on the island of Thera (now Santorni, well...what's left of it!). The Minoans lived on Crete, in the city of Knossus, near Akrotiri, and their civilization was wiped out in "a single day and night of horrible destruction" that is, they really did "sink in the depths of the sea"--at least for a little while. Then when all the water went back out to sea, it swept everyone in the Minoan kingdom back out to sea with it. The book is heavily appendded with lots of geographical data from all over the Medditerranean region that supports his claim (which is actually the claim of an archaeologist by the name of Marinatos-who actually discovered the kingdom of Knossus, which up until his time was thought to be a myth).

Marinatos' claim as we read it through Luce's writings, also answers alot of the questions asked concerning the actual discrepancies in the legend of Atlantis itself. Check it out! It made a believer out of this skeptic!

Hello,

Atlantis is an interesting myth but there never has been any empirical evidence. The word's population 12,000 years ago was less than 10 million, most hunter - gatherers just starting to form villages as such and there was not enough talent in that sort of gene pool to have had made the advances attributed to the Atlanteans.

Edit - OK, I'll elaborte a more on this:

Well according to legend and what Plato said, Atlantis lay beyond

the "Pillars Of Hercules " which is the Rock of Gibraltar.

In my opinion, I think it is just a legend with no archeological

proof found to date. A colonizing power,

technically superior like Rome has buildings and artifacts as well as

historical records from Saudi Arabia to Scotland so I believe it.

Where is such evidence for Atlantis 12,000 years ago? One building,

one dagger or statue? The bottom of the Atlantic in the middle of the

ocean is a basaltic volcanic range, spreading a few inches a year

with no continental materials; I'm afraid plate tectonics sunk

Ignatius Donelly's theory.

I would agree that the ancients had considerable skills; I'm sure an

ancient would learn to drive a car far quicker for example than one

of us could manage a team of horses and chariot.

Again I am thinking of the number of geniuses and inventors in small

populations. I'll show you the whole section From " The Ancient

Engineers " by L. Sprague De Camp who wrote and might clarify things

a little better:

" Nevertheless during all of the last million years invention

progressed with glacial slowness... by 100,000 years ago, however

man had probably become quite as intelligent as we are-but still

technology advanced at a crawl.

The reason for the sloth of invention in primative societies is easy

to understand. For one thing people live a hand to mouth existence.

Most of their foods cannot be stored so they have no economic

surplus. Therefore they can less afford to risk experiment than more

advanced people. If an experiment fails they die.

As a result primative societies are very conservative. Tribal

customs prescribe exactly how everything shall be done, on pain of

the gods' displeasure. An inventor is likely to be liquidated as a

dangerous deviationist.

Another cause of the slowness of primative invention is the scarcity

of inventors. A hunting and food gathering technology can support

only a very small population for a given area. Thus the few hundred

thousand to 2 million members of the human species living at any

time before the Agicultural Revolution were divided into many

isolated little hunting bands.

Such a band seldom exceeds 50 or a hundred people, counting the many

but short lived children. Because the radius of action of the

hunters is limited to the distance they can walk to kill game and

carry it back to their camp, an increase in numbers does not enlarge

the area that can be hunted at one time. It merely causes the same

area to be hunted more intensively. So, if the band grows too large,

game in the neighbourhood becomes scarce; and the band might migrate

or starve...

Now, in any society, only a few human beings ever have original

ideas or make inventions. Of these inventors, only a fraction have

the courage, stubbornness, and energy to keep on bettering their

inventions until they really work and keep promoting them until they

pursuade others to take them up.

A rough idea of the percentage of inventors among modern Americans

of the mid 20th century can be obtained from the statistics of the

American patent office. The Pattent office issues about 40,000

patents every year. So we can estimate that the mid 20th century

American population of 180 million people produces about one

patentable invention each year foe every 4500 citizens.

Suppose now that all Americans (at this time) were wiped out except

for one band of 45 people.. If this group continued to produce

inventions at the same rate, it would turn out only one invention

every century! This of course is a gross oversimplification but it

does indicate why a small tribal society, no matter how clever the

tribesmen, cannot be expected to produce inventions rapidly...

Suppose now there are 2 bands of 45 Americans. If they are isolated

from each other, each band will produce one invention per century,

so that each progresses at the same rate as before. Their cultures

will diverge somewhat, as they will hit upon the same inventions

only rarely, by chance.

However, if they meet and join forces, then all 90 persons will take

advantage of the inventions produced by any one of them... in other

words they will progress technologically twice as fast.

To sum up: Progress in civilization depends upon invention, and a

rapid rate of invention in turn depends upon the sizeable

populations that are only possible under civilization. The crucial

inventions that made such progress possible - Knowledge of raising

domesticated, edible animals and plants - took place in Syria and

Iraq about 8000 years ago."

L. Sprague De Camp

Now taking the above narration into account I still cannot help but

wonder how the civilization of Atlantis could have ever existed a

few thousand years before hunter-gather tribes of 2 - 10 million plus or

minus in the world even started amalgemating with one another to

form the first primative farming communities.

Also the lack of archeological evidence combined with the above

makes he outlook rather dismal in my opinion.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

There are many theories but off the florida cost there has been found what they call the Bimini Road. It is a sunken paved road so Atlantis may have been somewhere close to the isle of Bimini. Other theories say it is in the caspian sea I believe and there is even a theory floating around in Mexico that it is in the bottem of the lake in the center of Mexico City.

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Atlantis/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/home.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html

Atlantis is only one fabled sunken city.

http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/sunkcity.htm

It flooded. That is all. There was a city. It flooded.

Probably some island civilization which sank. Some islands do sink.

This guy I work with claims to have found the lost city of Atlantis using Google Earth. Is he crazy?

Maybe he is...Google Earth uses satellite imagery that cannot penetrate to any great depth in water. As Atlantis is supposed to have sunk into the ocean/sea I would have to say there is no way he could see it on Google Earth.

Yes, and so are you for even questioning its validity, and so am I for answering this question.

BTW, gullible is not in the dictionary!

he probably just found the atlantis resort in the bahamas. its pretty nice, trust me

Between you and him, I think SOMEBODY'S crazy!

No, he is a dreamer and adventurer. I wish that would be true. Maybe some day he will find it. Good luck to him.

Many things were invented and founded by chance. Who knows. Future will show.

Im not sure but im typeing it in and seeing if it does work right now.....................................…

i got nothing he was probably meant Atlantis, FL, USA or he's just a nutcase and doesn't know what he's talkin bout.

yes, he sounds like a total nutcase, get him to a mental institute asap

NO! I'm not crazy. I did find it and it's not in the Bahamas. It is off the coast of...well let's just say it's not in the Bahamas. I will set up my infamous Invisible knee machine there, and launch my plot for domination of the planet....what??!...who's there?....I feel like I'm being watched....ooooh, look at the pudgy pigmys with the marshmallow tipped spears...I'M NOT CRAZY!!!

Maybe. But more importantly, can you ask him if he can find my other sock? :)

haha yeah he sounds like it but just in case he did tell him to call me.

maybe not crazy! check out this site... if antlantis exists this is where it could be although its under water so you cant really see it as such :)

http://www.gearthhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=305

http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile842/Atlantis.htm

I think that if he could see in on Google Earth, others would have seen it by now and it would be all over the news. Or maybe he just got really lucky.

No he isn't crazy. I found it on there too and I am not crazy.

this is impossible.

The kingdom of tyrus written in the bookof ezekiel 26,27 and 28:1-19 could be the lost atlantis!read the book!

ezekiel 26:19,21 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD;WHEN I SHALL MAKE THEE A DESOLATE CITY,LIKE THE CITIES THAT ARE NOT INHABITED;WHEN I SHALL BRING UP THE DEEP UPON THEE,AND GREAT WATERS SHALL COVER THEE. I WILL MAKE THEE A TERROR AND THOU SHALT BE NO MORE;THOUGH THOU BE SOUGHT FOR,YET SHALT THOU NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN,SAITH THE LORD GOD.

Sorry. Unless you have more proof I don't buy it. What is your secondary and tricary sources?

The name used is that for Tyre, a city whose location we know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre%2C_Lebanon . No, it is definitely not Atlantis - it is about as far west of the Pillars of Hercules as you can get.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Wow pretty cool! I never read that before, could be. GI

Scientist believe that there was a lost continent call Atlantis. True or false?

State why you think it's true or false.

Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "Island of Atlas") is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

As continental drift became more widely accepted during the 1960s, most “Lost Continent” theories of Atlantis began to wane in popularity. In response, some recent theories propose that elements of Plato's story were derived from earlier myths.

Plato scholar Dr Julia Annas (Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona) has had this to say on the matter:

The continuing industry of discovering Atlantis illustrates the dangers of reading Plato. For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction â€" stressing the historicity of an event (and the discovery of hitherto unknown authorities) as an indication that what follows is fiction. The idea is that we should use the story to examine our ideas of government and power. We have missed the point if instead of thinking about these issues we go off exploring the sea bed. The continuing misunderstanding of Plato as historian here enables us to see why his distrust of imaginative writing is sometimes justified.

It's Antarctica. Since that continent really exists, I would say it is true. Go ahead and laugh, but remember, our view of a polar earth is confined to the present "North - South" view; there was a time when Antarctica was located in the middle latitudes, and if you saw what I saw on a satellite photograph of that continent, you too would believe that there was once a civilization there.

Not only do they believe it, they think they have now found it. It was in the news.

"Scientists believe" is much too vague. Geologists generally support the theory of plate tectonics, which currently excludes the possibility of a lost continent during human history. There are, of course, still scientists (of one sort or another) who believe that the legend is based on fact. Many archaeologists hold the theory that Thyatira was the basis of the Atlantis story mentioned by Plato, but this does *not* lie beyond the pillars of Hercules as specified by Plato.

There are a myriad of theories, of course. One of the most interesting is that, either through continental drift or a change in the earth's axis, the continent is now beneath glaciers at the South Pole (Antarctica), while its sister lost continent, Mu (formerly in the Pacific), is the island of Greenland. Such a theory explains why no one has discovered these "lost" civilizations under water.

It *is* interesting that the Atlantis tale corresponds so well with the story of the deluge found in the bible and other ancient sources. It is even possible that a pre-Colombian civilization had the boating technology to perform a trans-Atlantic crossing, and that this was the source of the story.

The *truth* is, no one has been able to prove or disprove that Atlantis existed.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Most believe it is a myth. There could possibly be an island that was destroyed and legend grew over 100s, possibly 1000s of years.

False.

How do scientists kno theres a city of Atlantis if its lost?

I asked all my teachers but all they did was laugh

Real scientists don't know that it is real. And just because Plato described it doesn't mean anything. Its debatable that Plato was real. The only evidence of Plato's existence was in Socrates' writings. Plato was just as fictional as the City of Atlantis.

Plato was a great philosopher. He wrote a great many concepts that are still referenced today. The lost city of Artlantis is probably under the Antarctic ice cap. Remember the wolly mammoth that was found flash frozen with an undigested flower in it's stomach? This is just one bit of proof that the Earth had a transformation in a rather rapid manner. Atlantis was burried when this shift took place.

It's only lost to this world Hon. It's safe and in another dimension for now. The time for it's return is soon. Very soon indeed.

I've read about pyramids in the Atlantic and near of Japan and in other places which are under water. Those in the Atlantic are in a depth of more than hundred meters (more than 330 feet),

the last ice age ended 10.500 years BC, i.e. 12.500 years ago.

It can be guessed that the sealevel augmented then within a short period (within some hundred years) perhaps 100 or maybe 200 metres (660 feet). So those pyramids got under water then.

Would you consider such pyramids as a proof for Atlantis?

There is still a conflict between some scientists. Some (maybe more than the half) allege that the found "pyramids" are not artificial and that they are naturally arised objects.

Not very good teachers.

Whether ATlantis existed or not is still an open question. AS you say, we haven't found it yet, and that is usually the strongest argument against it having existed at all.

There is a lot of evidence though that points to SOME kind of advanced civilization having existed way before we think it even started. There are ruins of huge pyramids off the coast of India, Japan, Central America and many other locations, and from geology we know that these places were last above water before the Ice Age ended.

There are also maps, of which the most famous is the Piri R'eis map, of places that were only supposedly discovered much later, and which show these places, not as they are now or were at the times they were created/used, but as they would have been thousands of years ago. The Piri R'eis maps, for example, show the eastern coast of South America, ALONG with Antarctica - BUT WITHOUT ICE. The map outlines have been verified as accurate through satelite imaging of the Antarctic coast, only, there's no way anybody in the 14'th century could have known - the last time even parts of Antarctica was ice free was well before the Ice Age ended.

So yeah, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence out there, for people who keep an open mind and care to look. Unfortunately few do.

If you'd like more info on this, feel free to email me, and I'll send you some pdf's about the topic.

The writings of Plato..

As most people have mentioned, Plato described the city in his writing. A lot of people believe that it's mythical, but Troy was also thought of as a mythical place until it was discovered by archaeologists.

because anceint people have described it. One of the most famous of these people is Plato. If you look up Atlantis in www.wikipedia.com, you'll find more answers.

(pokes at the people that calls us weak minded individuals) just because we have different believes doesnt mean we are weak minded. We like the mystery of the legend and want to find out if it is real. Prove to us it is fake. OMG you can't just yet till we are able to research all of our planet and find every nook and cranny of it. You are weak minded because you cant realize that it can't be proven right or wrong yet.

Ok vent/rant over.

when the world was formed all the continents were 1 it was called pangea meaning all there was probably a blank space of water they couldnt fill

They dont, as far as anyone can tell there was no such place as Atlantis, it is a story dreamed up by the ancient Greeks and accepted by weak minded individuals to this day.

Maby it shows up on Goggle Earth. he he he

Sorry i just couldn't resist that.

Where is The Lost City of Atlantis?

If we make the assumption that Atlantis was a real place, it seems logical that it could be found west of the Straight of Gibraltar near the Azores Islands.

In 1882 a man named Ignatius Donnelly published a book titled "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World". Donnelly, an American politician, had come to the belief that Plato's story represented actual historical fact.

He located Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, suggesting the Azores Islands represented what remained of the highest mountain peaks.

Donnelly said he had studied zoology and geology and had come to the conclusion that civilization itself had begun with the Atlantians and had spread out throughout the world as the Atlantians established colonies in places like ancient Egypt and Peru. Donnelly's book became a world-wide best seller, but researchers could not take Donnelly's theories seriously as he offered no proof for his ideas.

As time when on it became obvious that Donnelly's theories were faulty. Modern scientific surveys of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean shows it is covered with a blanket of sediment that must have taken millions of years to accumulate. There is no sign of a sunken island continent.

People have made cases for places as diverse as Switzerland, in the middle of Europe, and New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean. The explorer, Percy Fawcett, thought that it might be located in Brazil.

One of the most convincing arguments, though, came from K.T. Frost, a professor of history at the Queen's University in Belfast. Later, Spyridon Marinatos, an archaeologist, and A.G. Galanopoulos, a seismologist, added evidence to Frost's ideas.

Frost suggested that instead of being west of the Pillars of Hercules, Atlantis was east. He also thought that the catastrophic end of the island had come not 9000 years before Plato's time, but only 900. If this was true, the land of Atlantis might already be a well-known place even in Plato's time: the island of Crete.

Hope that helps. :)

I think it's somewhere in the Mediterranean. Some people also believe it's somewhere by the Bimini's in the Bahamas.

Actually no one knows where it is. But there are a few guesses. :D

Seriously speaking, there's a WHOLE bunch of guesses, ranging from Andalusia to Antarctica and even Indonesia.

So just check out the wiki link, ya?

PLato puts it

West of the straits of Gibraltar

others say off cuba or cyprus

there is even a lost kingdom off India

and others argue that it is in black sea

here is an interesting blurb

Look here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3227295.stm

They might be more than one since it is a myth which could pertain to more than once city. ie mankind has lost more than one city to the sea, exp. New Orelans,usa

Cheers Zonkvert

Personally I believe it was in the atlantic ocean. Perhaps somwhere near or in the Bermuda Triangle and that may be what causes some of the wierd events there.

Atlantis is a myth. There have been lost cities, but the story of Atlantis is more the realm of sci-fi television than actually history. You might as well look for Valhalla. What we have of Atlantis is bits of suggestion from writings about other things by people like Plato, but no real historically significant proof of such a civilization. There are some supposed ruins that treasure hunters have found in the Mediterranean basin, but they are a couple columns and some pottery, hardly enough to validate the notion that there is a lots continent out there in the ocean somewhere.

if we knew it would't be called the lost city........duh

Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "Island of Atlas") is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In Plato's account, Atlantis, lying "beyond the pillars of Hercules", was a naval power which conquered many parts of western Europe and Africa 9000 years before Plato's own time--approximately 9400 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune." As a story embedded in Plato's dialogues, Atlantis is generally seen as a myth created by Plato to illustrate his political theories. Although the function of the story of Atlantis seems clear to most scholars, they dispute whether and how much Plato's account was inspired by older traditions. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration of contemporary events lik
e the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415â€"413 BC.

The possible existence of Atlantis was actively discussed throughout the classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied. While basically unknown during the Middle Ages, the story of Atlantis was rediscovered by Humanists at the very beginning of modern times. Plato's description inspired the utopian works of several Renaissance writers, like Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis". To this day, Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books and movies.

Since Donnelly's day, there have been dozensâ€"perhaps hundredsâ€"of locations proposed for Atlantis. Some are scholarly or archaeological works whilst others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. Many of the proposed sites share some of the characteristics of the Atlantis story (water, catastrophic end, relevant time period), but none has been proven conclusively to be the historical Atlantis. Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea, either islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Cyprus, Malta, and Ponza or as land based cities or states such as Troy, Tartessos or Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey, and the new theory of Israel-Sinai or Canaan as possible locations.[citation needed] The massive Thera eruption, dated either to the 17th or the 15th century BC, caused a massive tsunami that experts hypothesize devastated the Minoan civilization on the nearby island of Crete, further leading some to b
elieve that this may have been the catastrophe which inspired the story.

A. G. Galanopoulos argued that the time scale has been distorted by an error in translation, probably from Egyptian into Greek, which produced "thousands" instead of "hundreds"; this same error would rescale Plato's Kingdom of Atlantis to the size of Crete, while leaving the city the size of the crater on Thera. 900 years before Solon would be the 15th century BC. [15]

Locations as wide-ranging as Andalusia, Antarctica, Indonesia, underneath the Bermuda Triangle, and the Caribbean have been proposed as the true site of Atlantis. In the area of the Black Sea at least three locations have been proposed: Bosporus, Sinop and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon). The nearby Sea of Azov was proposed as another site in 2003.[16] In Northern Europe, Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in "Atland", 1672-1702), Ireland, and the North Sea have been proposed (the Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson combines the North Sea and Ireland in a comprehensive hypothesis).[citation needed] Areas in the Pacific and Indian Ocean have also been proposed including Indonesia, Malaysia or both (i.e. Sundaland) and stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have drawn parallels to Atlantis.[citation needed] Even Cuba and the Bahamas have been suggested. Some believe that Atlantis stretched from the tip of Spain to Central America.[citation needed] According to
Ignatius L. Donnelly in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, there is a connection between Atlantis and Aztlan (the ancestral home of the Aztecs).[citation needed] He claims that the Aztecs pointed east to the Caribbean as the former location of Aztlan. Some have considered the Philippines to be the possible site of Atlantis, and proposed that the islands were remnants of Atlantis's mountains.

The Canary Islands have also been identified as a possible location, West of the Straits of Gibraltar but in close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea.[citation needed] Various islands or island groups in the Atlantic were also identified as possible locations, notably the Azores (Mid-Atlantic islands which are a territory of Portugal), and even several Caribbean islands.[citation needed] The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar would coincide with some elements of Plato's account, matching both the location and the date of submersion given in the Critias. Popular culture increasingly places Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean and perpetuates the original Platonic ideal.

It's somewhere in the Mediterranean basin. There's a good possibility it was in the Adriatic Sea. Exact location remains unproven, but there are a couple of possibilities.

Silly person, it's lost!

It is Crete. Everything we know about Minoan Crete matches, except that in the story which Solon got from the Egyptian priest, the lost city or island of Atlantis:

a. was ten times further away

b. was ten times bigger

c. had ten times as many people, cattle, riches etc.

d. was destroyed ten times as long ago.

The story says Atlantis was destroyed about 9500 BC, 9000 years before the telling. Minoan Crete was destroyed by a huge eruption of Thera (Santorini) and tidal wave about 1450 BC, only 900 years before the telling.

By assuming that Solon made a simple mistake in converting Egyptian numbers, plus only a very little dramatic exaggeration, everything is explained. By assuming the story was true as passed on by Solon, there are lots of near-impossible things to be explained. Take your pick.

quoting myself from another thread :

It doesn't exist

Basic source of the atlantis legend are Platons books Kritias and Timaios.

First of all, we need to know that Platon was not a historian, but a philosopher and didn't care for historical correctness.

He describes Atlantis to praise Athens (his hometown), so its quite easy to unmask as propaganda.

In brief, he says :

Atlantis existed 9500 BC. and conquered most of europe and the north of africa (unlikely in itself)

Athens beat Atlantis and stopped it from conquering Greece (unlikely, 9500 BC. Athens was no more than a small village, if it had existed at that time at all)

Atlantis was bigger than Libya and Asia together (oh come on)

and was destroyed by a floowave and an earthquake that destroyed Greece as well.

All that knowledge was being kept by the egyptian city of Sais

which was founded 1000 years after Atlantis,according to Plato ,was destroyed)

You see, pretty hard to believe.

The only ones who still believe it, are non-academic treasure hunters and dreamers

Do you believe in the lost continent of atlantis?

the idea of an advanced antediluvian culture is interesting to me, and it is a pretty cool donovan song.

More than I believe in God

I really don't have an answer for this one, sorry.........:),Are you a closet braineack

Well I never heard of that. Just the movie.

try a book called finger prints of the gods by Ghram Hancock

yes i believe in the lost city. i think it might be antarctica though.

When I lived on the coast of Ireland in a place called Tralee, there was a legend of a place called TirNa'nog..this is said in Celtic legend to be the lost continent of Atlantis..It's ruins can be seen at low tide off the coast of Ireland(WEST). I saw them when I was 8 Years old ....it changed my life forever and made me a believer in ancient civilizations...A lot of ancient history records were destroyed by the so called Christians and conquers of the world..God , if only the Library of Alexandria had survived can you imagine how our view of the ancient world would be...There may have been a civilization like ours that existed but managed to destroy itself and erase all memory from the historical records so that now it would only be tall tales or legends...If our world today was ended and our historical records destroyed///what would future humans have to inform them of our existance but the tales handed down orally by the survivors of a catastrophe...Think about it ...It is
a fascinating subject and can open a closed mind to so many possiblities...Remeber,,no mystery is closed to an open mind....

no

Maybe we already found it and it's called Antartica. There are supposed to be some really old maps, from ancient times, which show what Antartica would look like if it were free of ice.

And the interesting thing is . . . the maps are accurate.

The problem is? Nobody back in ancient times had ground penetrating radar. So the only way it could have been mapped this way, would be if it were free of ice. More than one warm spell has melted the ice in the past. Even now, scientists are discovering dinosaur remains; and even the remains of tropical jungles. So who knows if there were some kind of ancient civilization living there at some point in history.

Except we will know by the end of this century.

Due to the effects of global warming, Antartica will be warm enough for trees and other vegetation to grow, by the end of this century. Maybe when the ice starts melting, we will discover a lot more down there besides penquins.

Yes, I wish someone would find it.

does believing in atlantiis also means believing

in the mythical place of El Dorado? or that

aircrafts missing in the bermuda triangle are caused

by aliens or the pull of a blackhole?

...there are things in this world w/c are really hard to explain....

Of course. Personally, all myths and legends have a seed of truth in them, however, I believe that the story of Atlantis is a historical one.

ive read some stuff about it

NO- but i believe in your mama ;)

Yes i believe its the Azores Islands in the Alan tic

The idea, yes. the location, no

I don't believe there ever was a continent of Atlantis. I do believe that the Minoans were the people referred to by the legend of Atlantis, however. The Minoans were a great people who gained riches from their far flung trade ties throughout the Mediterranean at about the time Mycenaean culture was becoming more powerful in Greece.

Atlantis is the American Continent. Probably the lost cities are the Mayan or Aztecs empires. This concept is clear to me. If the New Continents doesn't "exist" at this time, why believe in the existence of another one between Europe-Africa and America. If you look at the underwater maps of the Atlantic Ocean I'm sure you can't find a lost Continent.

i believe in the lost continent of Mianus

http://www.mianus.org/

Atlantis is what a Greek philosopher wrote about in one of his books and that with other writing of other people which prove that Atlantis did exist and was destroyed by an volcano and earthquake............................. And there is plenty of evidence of that but most of this racist world want to believe that Africans or the black man was capable of such greatness. So this racist world would rather die or turn the Atlanteans white before the admit that they were Africans some other famous Black Men turned white or Chinese was Attila The Hun, and Genghis Khan, and Hannibal. As well as a few others, that a racist historian won't talk about. Another point in history is that Attila The Hun and Genghis Khan were both born in Yugoslavia not that far apart, And they were some of the greatest Conqueror know to mankind. And then ther was Hannibal who was born in Africa..

Hannibal was totally Black, Attila along with Genhis were Black and Oriental....

And if you never seen a Black Man with slanted eye try visiting Africa and Madagascar...... How is that for a history lesson.....

Atlantis specifically? I'm not sure...

But the idea that an advanced culture (that may or may not have been as -- or more -- advanced as us) disappearing suddenly, yes. Look at the Aztecs, the Incas. Look at what the Vikings are believed to have done in the Northern climes...

By today's Engineering standards, the Pyramids make no sense.

What is the purpose of Stonehenge?

There is a lot about human history that is confusing and inconsistent.

I personally like the story put forth by Stargate SG-1... no, I don't believe it is true, but the idea that other space faring cultures "used us" would explain a lot that seems unlikely with our current understanding of engineering and history.

Proving it is a whole different story. And while I have an open mind about possibilities, I yearn for proof, not supposition.

I believe in it. ^_^

Been there!

kewl place, but, rather silent, and dead...

I'll believe it when they discover it.

I definitely believe in it. It's pretty ignorant to think that Earth has been like this forever. Just look how New Orleans is going under, it shows that it can happen!

No. It is a miss-telling of several oral histories that stem from the end of the last ice age. There are stone age structures all over the world from that time period that are exactly where ancient people would have built stone walls or temples if the sea levels were 50 feet lower.

Add in the destruction of the island where the Minoan culture was, tack on a few hundred years of bad re-telling of tales of survivors and run it through Egypt, then add a few hundred more years of re-telling and THEN translate it into Greek, add another couple of decades and there you have Plato's "Atlantis".

History is far more interesting than myth.

i dono but if they do find it i wana see!

i believe in it

How can I find the lost city of Atlantis?

To all those who are making fun of this question you have another thing coming this person asked this question to get some descent answers not some like the ones ive read. Atlantis was destroyed by massive earthquakes and floods, not to mention their technology got out of hand. There has been much speculation as to were it might be (if it hasnt been found and kept secret) but in recent times people have agreed it might be somewere in the Atlantic ocean, as of Platos writings. Lemuria and Atlantis are the most popular lost cities in history, people might want you to believe that it is fake, but i suggest you open your eyes, look around you and wonder how you got were you are and how things before you got were they are!

Good luck with your search! :)

by not asking retards on yahoo answers like me and go to collage and stop playing with your boyfriends pecker thats what i would do

At the end of a doobie

Get google Earth and search for Atlantis, there the answer you want will be revealed.

I heard you can go see it if you walk under the Atlantic Ocean. You have to not be wearing any scuba gear or they won't let you in. Good luck!

Ask the the little mermaid she might know.

Find dortheys ruby red slippers click your heels three times and say " I wish i were in atlantis the lost city " It works every time.

It is not a real place! It is a los city beacsue no one has ever been able to find it. No one has ever been able to fing it because it doesn't exist!!!!!!

Good Luck with that!!!!!!!

A serious rumor is talking about the southern tip of Cyprus

duh get a life u cant

You can't. It's in another dimension.

Watch a movie

"Finding Atlantis" maybe

or "Atlantis"

or "The lost city; Atlantis"

well it could be in several places , but i have heard and seen evidence to suggest that it is off the eastern coast of Florida.....

Start diving.

Why can't you people understand the lost city means that it is lost!

It hasn't been located or it would be renamed the Found City of Atlantis.

its easy to find, the lost city of atlantis is located on an island in the bahamas and is now a flourishing resort and casino!!!

i wud look it up in the yellow pages ahahaha xD

who tinks dis is funny

as with most myths, atlantis has a grain of truth in it. scientists continue to debate but many people think it's Santorini, an island in the middle of the Aegean Sea. the shape of the island is that of a ring with a big hole in the middle. a volcano used to sit in the middle of that, but it blew its top and formed wat is called a caldera, a big crater. the explosion can be compared to krakatoa and destroyed the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete to the south. it created a tsunami which also affected Santorini itself.

Sorry to be a pessimist, but i don't think you can! =P

They've been looking for It for ages, and they're professionals,

So some how don't quite think you would find it.

=P

Goodluck ...!

get on the magical dolphins and they will lead you. DUHHH!

To date, you can only discover it in Mythology and folk legends. The said area has been extensively explored by explorers and scientists alike and no one has make any discovery. And with today technology, and this is what they say, "no part of earth was left undiscovered".... Maybe the only exception is my bedroom. LOL

Is Princess Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire Black? I was wondering what everyone else thought about this.?

I just thought since she is dark-skinned, she would be consider Black, but she's not considered Disney's first Black princess. What does everyone else think?

I think her skin is darker because the Atlantian people live outside (in their bubble), not sheltered as much under buildings who shield pale persons.

Living "outside" for thousands of years (evolution) causes the skin of a person to produce melanin, a pigment that colors people's skin and protects from the sun's ultraviolet rays. Eventually, all descendants of that person have this darker colored skin, even if they don't use it.

Kida is black because of her skin tone, which even looks just like the black Congoid/******* Doctor Sweet.Atlantis is just a city people. Tokyo, New york, Sparta were just cities, but you'd still consider most of the people from there Japanese, American, and Greek. That's just her nationality. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/accuse_write?qid=20090220184839AAVN3le&kid=E8xNBmDvVWXsY7QcKZVU&s=comm&date=2009-03-18+13%3A51%3A49&.crumb=

Hmm...interesting. Well, she does have dark skin, but she never came from Africa, or any of her ancestors. Technically, she's Atlantican, named for the ocean where Atlantis used to be. So, I guess the answer is technically no.

According to science, we are all from Africa, so I guess so.

Any information/facts about Atlantis, the Lost Continent?

Atlantis was a city that existed 10,000 years before Plato, the main source of information on the topic. It was lost because the Atlanteans had displeased the gods and were punished. Plato heard about the story from Egyptians, and wrote about the story, claiming that it was true throughout. As of now Atlantis is a myth, though there are some theories about it. One is that the Minoan civilization on Crete was Atlantis, another is that Spartel Island near the pillars of Hercules could have been Atlantis, and some people believe that Atlantis could have been in Antarctica.

If you really want to know, then here it goes: it may have never existed.The Greek philosopher Plato(427-347 B.C.) wrote a story about a glorious island in the Atlantic ocean that sank into the sea because of earthquakes and floods. Although Plato never claimed his tale was true,some people came to believe that Atlantis really existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis

It's a continent, and it's lost.

Oh yeah, and people look for it constantly.

Have you found Atlantis Lost?

Tried to post as prose, yahoo did the spacing, not me!

High Priestess of Atlantis

Torch lit aisles parting throng of believers, waiting for Healer to come. Draped in royal garb, she approaches, crown rests upon regal head. Tonight the power will come, she'll make dead spirits dance.

Ancient gift passed down through the ages, destined to be channeled yet again. She raises long arms, palms upward to the heavens,

anxious crowd stilled with a hush, holy chant:

O God of Power, Source of Warmth, Your Healing Touch Deliver!

Torch lights flicker then go out as force field all can feel alters.

Transferring of power duly manifested in their leader, eyes watch to see who she will choose. Yet, it is never her choice, never. She is obedient to her Source and knows the charge is not hers to make, she, simply the honored vessel, this place, this time, this now. She turns to waiting mass, yearning for her touch. They call to her, Hail her name, declaring allegience of trust, knowing she serves only for their highest good. Slowly she rubs healing hands together, then faster, till they must part. Glowing orb of healing power floats in space between opened palms. Today she knows her worshipers will be sorely disappointed, leave unfulfilled, grumbling as they turn their backs. But she must do as told. Glowing orb she brings to her lips and with mystical gift, blows it across the sea, the ages, time and space. Though Atlantis is now lost, the orb obediently finds its way to you. In this place, this time, this now.

"All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas

In all legends from all lands were from fair 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."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmXElrdrJ3U

smothers brothers? it was the shortest, audible version i found! your question reminded me of the song, i loved it (and donovan) way back when...

A stanza format would suit this story poem well. Two lines to me distract from this great tale 'crown rests upon "regal" head' and 'torch lights flickers then go out as "force field all can feel alters"' Otherwise a great read. Editing will only make it better.

Enjoyed your thoughts. Thanks.

Mine was found 20 years ago when I moved here. ♥

Yes I found my Atlantis 16 years ago..

What is the latest news about the Atlantis (the Lost Continent)?

It's still lost.

March 9, 2005 - Today I am puzzled. My search for Atlantis seems to bring back unexpected results and it's going the way I didn't want it to go. Maybe Atlantis is some kind of faerie tale, but there must be something lost out there, even if its name wasn't Atlantis, even if it wasn't in the Atlantic.

What is Atlantis after all?

The more I read, the more confused I get. Plato's work is not enough, one has to go much more deeper. My journey took me to the Egyptians, to Herodotus, and the old Greek texts. The old Greek scholars cast a completely different light on the story. After years and years of believing just because funny evidence claims the existence of Plato's Atlantis, I reached a point where I ask myself: But did it really exist, as Plato said?

I pointed my finger to the Azores, I pointed it to Santorini, and now I am pointing to nothing, because I don't know what to say. I might as well reach the conclusion that Atlantis is after all Plato's story, based on some real events, but adapted.

If there was something else out there? Most probably. And this is what we need to find. I think that after Atlantis comes to a full stop, I need to go into the Pacific and the Indian Ocean and look for Mu and Lemuria. That might help.

http://atlantis.haktanir.org/ch1.html

Where do you think the lost city of Atlantis will be found?

There is no concrete evidence to prove or disaprove its existance. Plato in one of his discusions with Socrates mentions A City far more civilized than that of theirs . He thought it was located far to the west of africa wich would point its location close to South America. Through moder investigation some clame it did exist Close to what we know as The Bermuda Triangle.

In a dumpster just outside Jersey City, lol.

Its a myth, there was no real Atlantis. Its fun to imagine. You could always watch Stargate Atlantis. Some may tell you otherwise about Atlantis but most legit scientist believe its a myth.

What should i use for my 3 points on my essay about the Lost City of Atlantis?

this link might help you:

http://tinyurl.com/6hk5sv

Is there a link between the Egyptian pyramids and the lost city of Atlantis ?

does 2012 fit into this scenario ? What was found under the paw of the great Sphinx ?

Yes, there is a link between the Egypt and Atlantis. No, it has nothing to do with 2012.

If you are serious about checking out the connection between Atlantis and Egypt, check out The Emerald Tablets of Thoth by Thoth the Atlantean translated by Doreal. To read the Tablets in their entirety, see

http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/freebook/thoth/index.html

I think the link is with Egypt herself, Herodotus got the story of Atlantis at the Temple of Edfu. 2012 scenario comes from two sources that I know of, one is Hispanic and the other Jewish, and there was something found, but they have been silent on what, do know there are rooms under the Sphinx and supposedly a library as well as a labrynth, but Hawass has not confirmed what the Americans found.

only that Enoch who built one of the pyramids at Giza was a prophet condemning a sinful generation of coming jugdement.And Atlantis (Tyrus) was condemned by a prophet Ezekiel to sink in to the sea for its sins and the hardness of the heart of its King

No, The pyramids in egypt were part of a global arieal guidance network of landmarks, both natural and artifical, that were used to navigate spacecrafts and other terrestial aeronautaical machinces some 500,000 years ago, up unto the year 0 B.C.

Atlantis is a myth it never existed and 2012 will come and go just like any other year...there is a lot of sand and earth under the paw of the Sphinx

No. And "Atlantis civilization" is PHONY BALONY!!! Another phony balony: 2012 year of "doom". DAMN!

2012 won't bring anything but false hopes...

And, a really old dead mouse most likely.

Yes!

and Stargate is a great show!

How did Atlantis get lost?

Well, you have Plato's Lost Civilization account/mythology, you have the ancient historians' accounts, you have the archaic maps, you have the sinking Atlantis in a single day and night of misfortune in tsunami waves account, you have Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, you have Edgar Cayce's account, you have the archaeologists recent South China Sea hypothesis, you have the ....... just to name a few! ... But does it really matter how or why it was lost, or if it even ever existed in the first place, as long as its essence is still alive INSIDE us? ... So next time you are at the beach and enjoying a refreshing glass of ouzo, don't forget to pour a little of it in the sea in honor of Atlantis. ...XOXOXOXOXO

and none of the above had any fact to the answer, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/accuse_write?qid=20061008132758AAcvfra&kid=NbUvWDC1UzgxKdEEmRyl&s=comm&date=2006-10-09+00%3A23%3A33&.crumb=

It didn't.

it is Edgar Cayce who gives us prophesies of the first signs of corruption of the Atlantean civilization. The prophecy is as follows:

Turmoils arose with the mixing of those of pure lineage with those who had not completely thrown off the animal influences. Contempt, hatred, and bloodshed resulted. With this growth of disturbing factors - resulting from the magnification of desires without regard for the rights of others - an effort was made to draw the people back to the worship of one God, by establishing the first altars upon which were made the sacrifices of the field and forest. Rituals and ceremonies were instituted and the sacred fires set, as the shrine of the pure and the means of cleansing for all."

"After the first destruction, the altars were sometimes used for human sacrifice, by those turning more and more away from the original understanding of the Creative Force. Strife, rather than peace, became the common state, and the fact that great understanding of nature's forces had been attained made the destructions all the more terrible. From this time on, though material civilization rose to great heights, there was a growing unrest which brought about the many migrations both to the east and the west."

Some reports say that the Atlanteans were extremely war like and egocentric. They subjugated the ignorant natives of other lands and were at a constant war with the Rama Empire. Some say that was their tragic flaw, that a great war destroyed them. I'll discuss this in the next section.

It was ruled entirely by men, and they never asked for directions.

i think a tsunami

Took a wrong turn on Route 66.

A flood sank it I think.

atlantis is only a made up story ,theres no proof that it ever existed,

I think a tsunami flooded the city and made it sink.

The account that Plato gave states that Atlantis was destroyed in a single day and night by volcanic activity and tidal waves that followed the volcanic eruption. Now recent finding state the actual name of the Atlantians to be that of the Keptu [I may be miss spelling this name] (the Egyptian name for the people of Atlantis and posibly even what they called themselves), but for diffenitive proof that Archeolgical comunity will have to get over its phobia of the name Atlantis.

Who claimed to have found the lost city of atlantis in the sahara desert in 1926?

please help!!

according to google it was in a movie or a book

A crazy man?

What is the suspected race of the people in the lost city of Atlantis? Theory?

Just wondering what people thought the race of this city was. And can anyone give a little explanation to the theory of the city of Atlantis?

The current theory is that it was the island of Crete

and was the seat of Minoan civilization.

The theory is that it was subjected to a massive

volcanic eruption which split the island in two

Forming the new Island of Santorinas.

The remaining half was washed clean of all

civilization by the resulting Tsunami and became the

modern day Island of Crete,

The origen of the legend of Atlantis is said to be Egyptian.

Plato wrote an allegory set in Atlantis. This allegory was

entitled "Timaeus". The allegorical representation was that

the Minoan Culture had decayed into a corrupt society

devoid of morals and ethics and that the gods decided to

destroy it.

It's likely that Plato was actually giving his thoughts on

the state of affairs in Athens rather than recounting the

nature of Atlantis. Had he not written that dialogue, I

doubt that anyone would ever have heard of Atlantis.

In my opinion, there was no Atlantis as we know of it

in its popularized form in various fictional representations.

The story of Atlantis is based on fact, but it is nothing like the stories that are made up about it, it is much more boring. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. The ice was miles thick in places, and it melted very quickly. In about 20 years or less. People were living on the great plains that are now the sea bottoms, and when the ice melted it drowned most of them. They were only stone age people without boats after all. The ones who made it to the high ground exaggerated how good the old days were. No doubt there were towns of a sort, and from this event comes the tale of Atlantis. By the end of this century the sea will rise again, maybe 20-30-feet or more. That will take care of most of the capital cities in the world and plenty of the land too. For instance, every river will back up miles inland. With the loss of land and food wars will break out, and with the machines gone how will we live? In another 10,000 years there will be legends of the lost city of L
ondon, or New York, but by then our descendants will be Too busy chipping flint to believe the tales.

Basically some scientists think it was some "alien" civilization, some europeans or both.

Yes, scientists some were white. Some others were a mix of "alien" & human.

Atlantians

What's the story about the lost city of Atlantis? How did it get under water?

National Geographic Channel just did a program on Atlantis looking at some new theories of not only what happened to the city but where it might be. One scientist believes that a tsunami caused by an earthquake imploded the island city.

It is a legend more than a story. Everything you want to know can be found in the writings of Homer.

god

it was an earthquake that caused atlantis to sink to the bottom of the ocean

Questions about The Lost Continent of Atlantis, please give your sources...?

1. Where does the mystery of Atlantis origionate?

2. Describe the story of Atlantis's tragic demise?

3. What technology did Atlantians enjoy?

4. Give three locations that have been suggested for Atlantis?

5. What evidence is available to back up each theory of Atlantis' location?

6. Which location is the most likely location of Atlantis and what makes it so?

I'll give 10 points to the fourth person to list their source of information so please tell me where you got your information.

If I remember it was Herodotus who wrote about Solon who gave the information to the Egyptian Priests, who in turn let Herodotus read the sacred wall. Beyond the straights of Hercules, some say in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, some have said in the Tyrhennian sea, and some say amongst the Greek islands, and some say in the ice floes of the Artic. Supposedly highly advanced, had air conditioning. There can be no evidence only theory.

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sorry, not doing your Homework ;)

If you discovered the Lost City of Atlantis with a friend but your friend died would you take credit?

YES

no ,as it did take both of you to find it .and you wouldnt be much of a friend to him, or her, if you did.

I would say that that friend had helped in me finding the city I wouldnt take all the credit

why? did you find the lost city of atlantis?

Atlantis the Lost Empire Character Backgrounds?

I really enjoyed the movie, Atlantis: the Lost Empire, but I have a question. I keep running into these websites that have a bunch of background information on the characters. I have a DVD of the movie so I have no idea where this information is coming from. Also, I don't think it is made up, because many different sites have the same information. What's up??

There was a direct-to-home sequel of said film, plus a videogame of the expedition that found the book