# Yet another guy claims to have found Atlantis **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773 "2004-11-14T22:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/1 "2004-11-14T22:34:10Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea. > [@](#): > > “It is a miracle we found these walls as their location, and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings,” Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher. > > “We have definitely found the Acropolis of Atlantis,” he affirmed, adding the site was 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Cyprus. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/2 "2004-11-14T23:39:26Z")
I simply cannot accept his conclusions until they have been published in the peer-reviewed journal [_Weekly World News_](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/conspiracies/). ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/3 "2004-11-16T03:13:08Z")
I’m with Uvie on that. If it’s regarding atlantis, it needs the WWN’s seal of approval. ---
**Author:** ![professor\_folk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@professor\_folk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/professor_folk)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/4 "2004-11-16T04:20:28Z")
…and in 2000 years, they’ll be poring over our current fiction. Imagine taking Stephen King’s novels as the truth, trying to find a haunted car, or haunted hotel…etc, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/5 "2004-11-16T04:37:27Z")
Cyprus? Are you kidding me? [Anyone in my neck of the woods knows it’s in Reno](http://www.atlantiscasino.com) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/6 "2004-11-16T05:23:22Z")
[The Perfect Master speaks.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_069.html) (He never answers these threads, but nobody ever references him as “the Perfect Master” in them either. Maybe this one’s the charm.) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/7 "2004-11-16T13:19:05Z")
Damn, does this mean I’ll hve to move again? Sean :: motions up to his location tag :: ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-guy-claims-to-have-found-atlantis/274773/8 "2004-11-16T13:37:35Z")
It’s also over in [Great Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286628&goto=newpost). I think Cyprus is a better guess than, say, Peru.