http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html
I’d love for it to be true, but it just seems a little too fishy for me. Particulary the bit about “Just where plato said it would be”. Since when is the Atlantic and the Eastern Mediterrean the same place?
The sinking land bit is a bit suspect as well.
What say you? BS or not?
BS. If for no other reason than all the other “Atlantis found” news stories and threads I’ve read.
Piffle. I found Atlantis in my sock drawer just the other week.
Total BS, but would be interesting if there ARE ruins there. However, from my own experience (I won’t say where) side scanning sonar is notoriously suspect for this kind of stuff. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen ‘hits’ (looking for ships or planes or such) only to dive down and find a rock…or nothing at all. Basically they could have ‘seen’ what APPEARED to be man made formations…but until they actually go there and look they won’t know anything.
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Nitpick - Plato never said it was in the Atlantic. Later scholars interperated his text as meaning it was in the western sea and named the ocean after it; theses new researcher clain that the scholars were wrong and that Plato meant the Mediterranian all along. Which makes sense, as he was Greek.
Still seems like a load of BS. Real scientists don’t say their evidence is “irrefutable”.
I wonder if 2,000 years from now people won’t be looking for the lost “land of Oz”, or the ruins of the fabled “Gotham City”.
“Further confirmation of the historian Baum’s writings on the fabled city came in 1980, when President Reagan referred to a ‘shining city on a hill’ as clear a reference to Oz as can be. Excavations continue near the ruins of Alexandria, Virginia as the most likely location of this ‘Crystal City,’ but my findings prove conclusively that…”
Dammit, if you’d just kept track of it after you found it, we wouldn’t have this continual annoyance of Atlantis-sighting threads! Try to be more careful next time, will you? :dubious:
Besides, everyone knows that it’s the Yetis’ Cloaking Device that keeps people from finding the real Atlantis! :eek:
One archaeologist will discover Gotham in New York, while another will discover it close to Nottingham.
What I really want to know is how does a city sink 1500 meters? If it can be shown that this actually happens, then I might even believe the guy. (I still don’t think I’d be donating to his cause mind you).
cj
It sounds like the guy who’s making this claim has no credentials at all in archaeology. The article describes him simply as “an American researcher,” and the real archaeologists are quite dubious.
Real scientists do not say things like this.
The dude is an architect with a hobby. I would put this guy in the same category as Noah’s Ark hunters and Bigfoot chasers.
It’s an interesting “discovery”. It may be nothing, it may be what the ancients called Atalntis, it may be someting entirely different. I’ll wait for the article published in a peer review scientific journal…
I want to know how it can sink and there be anything recognizable at all, let alone an acropolis.
This is not uncommon at all. Sea levels can rise or earthquakes/volcanoes can cause , or parts of cities to become submerged. If Atlantis existed 9,000 years ago, it wouldn’t be surprising at all.
But would there be anything recognizable left after a 1500 m plunge?
I ascribe to the theory that the ill-fated Minoan civilization is Atlantis… though the details got scrambled by the time Plato wrote it down. The only thing he got right was the fact it was a great civilization and got wiped out in a disaster.
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The depth isn’t really significant. I don’t know what the terminal velocity is for stone in water, but it isn’t very fast, and I suspect it is reached rather quickly. And the bottom of the sea tends to be rather soft. Why would you think it would be a problem?
Also, the material wouldn’t have had to descend to that depth all at once. It could very easily have been a serious of events that resuted in it settling at the current depth.
I don’t believe that there’s any hypothesis that Atlantis literally “sank” in the sense of falling to the bottom of the ocean. Any theories that I’m aware of in this regard pertain to tidal waves caused by earthquakes. The belief is that the water blanketed the land not that the land was floating on the surface and then just “dropped.”
Haha!!
Reminds me of the David McCauley book, *Motel of the Gods * and that skit on the old Artie Johnson record album, Ton Laundry[Washington].
This could be a great thread!!