HyacinthBucket:
One of my pet peeves.
All the “Searching For Atlantis”-genre programs that we seem to have been inundated with in the last 20 years drives me absolutely NUTS. The connection between Atlantis and Thera was suggested 50 years ago, soon after Dr Marinatos started excavating the Akrotiri site. And the excellent book Atlantis by Galanapoulos and Bacon published in 1969 did a very good job of connecting the dots with Plato’s original writings.
Why do all these shows and “investigators” spend their money and waste their time looking for something that was found 50 years ago? There has been new geological evidence found recently but that only added additional backup to the evidence of where and what Atlantis actually was and what happened to it, not to mention that it’s the only place where ruins showing a highly civilzed culture like Plato described actually have been found.
There’s nothing mysterious about it. And the truth behind the legend is a lot more fascinating than all the turgid fiction espoused by so many bogus “Search Of” or “Finding…” or “Mystery of…” programs that keep looking for something that was right in plain sight all the time.
actually didn’t everyone in rationale science deduce it was just a a mythological version of when the real version of the island of Minos was killed off due to the either volcano or earth quake ? (I forget which)
xizor
April 3, 2019, 2:56pm
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Just for fun, I looked up the episode list for the original “In Search Of” series.episode on a Nazi hunter searching South America in 1979 (S3E18).
Oh, so close.
Missed it by *that *much!
Well, birds, rain, snow…but no Ark.
