Like many legends, by the time they are done reducing the legend to match the facts, there will be nothing interesting about it. So there used to be a place that got flooded. Shrug. The Atlantis legends as we know them, the ones popularized by Ignatius Donelly about a high-tech civilization in ancient times that sank to the bottom of the sea, is no more true for finding an ancient city that may have inspired the Platonic allegory that inspired Donelly.
No, silly! It’s:
“One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them”
[Cartman] My kingdom is FOUND. We will reign again!!![\Cartman]
There’s a topical Cat & Girl today.
The article in Antiquity - which is available here - only mentions the rectangular structures in Andalusia, not the supposed concentric circles.
The author, Rainer W. Kühne, is actually a physicist, who has himself admitted that ‘mainstream scientists have regarded me as a crackpot for the last twelve years’.
VP Richard Cheney’s satellite photo experts analyzed the same photos. Instead of ancient temples, Cheney said the photos “clearly, without a doubt” showed terrorist training facilities and definite evidence of signs of intention of preparations for weapons of mass destruction planning program activity.
Imperial Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a simultaneous press conference, pointed out that parts of the huge rock formations clearly resembled a naked breast. Ashcroft announced he had hired artist Christo to cover the immense stone breast with 7.3 miles of nylon taffeta fabric.