ATLANTIS FOUND!!! It was in Spain all this time.

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Now if only we can find El Dorado, Noahs Arc, and Santas Villige.



Satellite images 'show Atlantis'


A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia.

Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC.
 
Maybe we should all keep an eye on Fernando Poo for a while.

Jeremy
 
I think they match apart from being the wrong size and the wrong shape (but close on the shape). Apart from that, a perfect match to add to all the other places which are perfect matches for Atlantis.
 
About time, I want to see how these anti-gravity machines really work.
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Well, if you were that curious, why didn't you just ask the dolphins - they invented them.
 
Here we go again. Another elastic archaeological site that we're contorting to fit Plato's fiction.

I especially like how the article can say something like

"This is the only place that seems to fit [Plato's] description," he told BBC News Online.
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and yet surround the statement with comments like

The sizes of the "island" and its rings in the satellite image are slightly larger than those described by Plato. There are two possible explanations for this, says Dr Kuehne.

First, Plato may have underplayed the size of Atlantis. Secondly, the ancient unit of measurement used by Plato - the stade - may have been 20% larger than traditionally assumed.
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and

Mr Wickboldt added that the Greeks might have confused an Egyptian word referring to a coastline with one meaning "island" during transmission of the Atlantis story.
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So OK; we'll accept the words of the Egyptian priests, but they weren't talking about something that happened 9,000 years ago, they were talking about something that happened only a thousand years ago - I suppose Plato messed that up too. And they were talking about the Sea People, who were mostly from Asia Minor. That's funny, considering that the Atlanteans allegedly attacked from the western end of the Mediterranean, and only got as far as Italy on the northern coast; while the Sea People ravaged the coasts of Greece and the Aegean islands. It's also interesting, considering that the greatest recorded battle - and ultimate defeat - of the Sea People was won by Ramesses III, an Egyptian king. I'm certain the humble Egyptian priests had no trouble handing this national pride off to the Athenians.

Also, check out this neat map from the BBC website, presumably gotten from the researchers:

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Are those circles drawn completely arbitrarily, or do the couple of dark spots they happen to cross actually form concentric rings?
 
Joshua Korosi said:

So OK; we'll accept the words of the Egyptian priests, but they weren't talking about something that happened 9,000 years ago, they were talking about something that happened only a thousand years ago - I suppose Plato messed that up too.
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Well, that's part of the question too: there's absolutely no corroborating evidence from Egypt that such a story even existed prior to Plato. Why are people trying to figure out how the story could get garbled going from Egypt to Greece when we have no real reason to think the story even came from Egypt? If Plato made the whole thing up (by far the simplest explanation, and therefore the one I'm inclined to believe), then attributing it to Egyptian priests is only a story-telling device to give the whole thing an aura of authority (since the Egyptians were an ancient society even then and that would explain why nobody in Greece aside from Plato knew about this).
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Damn, I was just in Spain last fall, and I missed it. They should put up signs or something.
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Well, now that Atlantis has been found, I think it's high time Australia reclaimed its original title as the REALLY lost continent.


Edited to add: None of this even vaguely resembles that Donovan song, the one made famous as the background music of Joe Pesci stomping a guy to death in Goodfellas.
 
Travelling Continent

Dang that Atlantis gets around, one theory I heard is that Atlantis was part of every land mass, and those parts fell away into the sea. It was something like that I believe. The classicist Robert Graves puts Atlantis near Libya, though I rather forget his reasoning for that. Anyway I can't wait for the next nut job theory to surface.
 
7 years later they've released a documentary -

National Geographic's Finding Atlantis

It was full of breathless excitement and underwhelming "evidence".

To give you an idea of the quality, they did some diving off the coast after finding what might be man made structures in sonar images.

The divers excitedly described how they looked like man made walls and paths! (ala Bimini)

Their own geologist said they looked like natural formations from fractured rock (ala Bimini)

So do they dismiss it as evidence? No! Ancient peoples might have used this naturally fractured rock as building materials!

See it's an Atlantean wall!

Then we had the marshland discussed above. An unexplained underground layer of methane! In a marshland! Who would have thunk it! Must be the remains of a tsunami devastated city!

Look! Lots and lots of dots on the satellite image! Pick the right four and you have a rectangular shape! Evidence of an ancient man-made structure!

Apologies for all the exclamation marks, but that's how the main "scientist" was talking. Well I think he was a scientist. He had a bushy moustache and used his hands a lot.
 
I just noticed that of the nine photos on the NG website promoting the show, seven are of digs at Knossos and Troy - the only photos that had anything to do with the "found atlantis" claims was a diver in the water and a headshot of two of the divers standing on a beach.
 
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