What is the most mystical thing about Atlantis?
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Atlantis is supposed to be the paradigm of human civilization because of its advanced technology and utopian society. As someone has noted before, Plato was the first to mention atlantis in his - I think - Critias and Timaeus. the advanced tech part sounds true (as in true to Plato's original representation), but it is not a utopia. In fact, plato slams it, since his beloved Republic is perfect, and Atlantis its opposite; the island kingdom is supposed to be brutish and riddled with disorder.
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It is probably still somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\nIt has never been recovered because it has never been found.\nI personally have never seen it but I do not know if someone\nhas seen Atlantis or not.
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Cradle of modern civilization for a start.  Democracy as we known it is an Athenian concept.  Philosophy has its roots in ancient Greece.\n\nThe islands of Greece are geographically different, but here's an interesting story.  The Atlantis myth (fact?) emerged after the volcanic eruption of Santorini wiped out the Minoan civilization.  The island of Atlantis and its advanced civilization was wiped out in the process, so the story goes.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World\n\n    * The Great Pyramid of Giza\n    * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n    * The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n    * The Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n    * The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n    * The Colossus of Rhodes\n    * The Pharos of Alexandria \n\nThe Seven Wonders of the Modern World\n\n    * The Empire State Building\n    * The Itaipú Dam\n    * The CN Tower\n    * The Panama Canal\n    * The Channel Tunnel\n    * The North Sea Protection Works\n    * The Golden Gate Bridge\n\noops, forgot this one:\n\nThe Seven Natural Wonders of the World\n\n    * Mount Everest\n    * The Great Barrier Reef\n    * The Grand Canyon\n    * Victoria Falls\n    * The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro\n    * Paricutin Volcano\n    * The Northern Lights
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Maybe Atlantis would appear again. Damn u know all these riddles. \nI think there will be alot of water
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The best archeological evidence of an Atlantis, points to the garden paradise of Indonesia, near where the Tsunami hit last year...\n\n10,000 years ago, there was a flurry of earthquakes in that region, which caused massive migrations Westward. These people who left this area which was overcome by  volcanic eruptions moved to India, Ceylon, Babylon, Sumeria and finally Egypt roughly 6-8,000 years ago...\n\nYou must remember they had to walk, or boat away from their increasingly dangerous home; hence the legends of the Garden of Eden & Atlantis followed them!
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something sooo beautiful the human mind cant even fantasize about. Its unimaginable paradise!!!
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that remains to be seen but glaziers have always been moving .so a deep groove is more likely \n\nit is the ice in the south Pole which should hold the most interesting secrets ,as it is a big land mass that used to be in the tropics \nmany of us believe that Atlantis could be beneath Antarctica
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I think that all Mythological Gods (especially the Biblical GOD) are Metaphoric representations of elements that are extermely important to the Human condition. I guess it is also possible that many Mythological Gods were attempts of Humans to focus their Mentay or Spiritual powers in hopes of gaining control over the Earth or the Sun or the Sea or anything else they wanted to control. I suppose either would be possible, but I doubt any of them are real people.
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This gets asked daily....\nThe 7 wonders of the ancient world:\n\n    * The Great Pyramid of Giza\n      It is the one and only Ancient Wonder which does not require a description by early historians and poets. It is the one and only Ancient Wonder that does not need speculations concerning its appearance, size, and shape. It is the oldest, yet it is the only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders. It is the Great Pyramid of Giza.\n\n    * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n      Some stories indicate the Hanging Gardens towered hundreds of feet into the air, but archaeological explorations indicate a more modest, but still impressive, height.\n\n    * The Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n      This is a statue of the God in whose honor the Ancient Olympic games were held. It was located on the land that gave its very name to the Olympics. At the time of the games, wars stopped, and athletes came from Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Sicily to celebrate the Olympics and to worship their king of Gods: Zeus.\n\n    * The Colossus of Rhodes\n      The island of Rhodes was an important economic centre in the ancient world. It is located off the southwestern tip of Asia Minor where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. The capitol city, also named Rhodes, was built in 408 B.C\n\n\n\n    * The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n      Eight hundred years after its destruction, the magnificent Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, had been completely forgotten by the people of the town that had once held it in such pride…\n\n    * The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n      The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is the burial place of an ancient king. Yet the Mausoleum is different - so different from the Pyramid that it earned its reputation - and a spot within the list - for other reasons. Geographically, it is closer to the Temple of Artemis... And it was the beauty of the tomb rather than its size that fascinated its visitors for years.\n\n    * The Pharos of Alexandria (The Lighthouse of Alexandria)\n      Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one had a practical use in addition to its architectural elegance: The Lighthouse of Alexandria. For sailors, it ensured a safe return to the Great Harbor. For architects, it meant even more: it was the tallest building on Earth. And for scientists, it was the mysterious mirror that fascinated them most... The mirror which reflection could be seen more than 50 km (35 miles) off-shore.\n\nOf those, opnly the Pyramids remain today.\n\nThere are more modern wonders:\n\n\n\n* Great Pyramid of Giza\n* Great Wall of China\n* Taj Mahal\n* Serengeti Migration\n* Galapagos Islands\n* Grand Canyon\n* Machu Picchu\n\nModern world:\n* Channel Tunnel\n* CN Tower\n* Empire State Building\n* Golden Gate Bridge\n* Itaipu Dam\n* Netherlands' Tidal Defences\n* Panama Canal\n\nNatural wonders:\n* Grand Canyon\n* Great Barrier Reef\n* Harbor of Rio de Janeiro\n* Mount Everest\n* Northern Lights\n* Paricutín volcano\n* Victoria Falls\n\nUnderwater wonders:\nPalau\nBelize Barrier Reef\nGreat Barrier Reef\nDeep-Sea Vents\nGalapagos Islands\nLake Baikal\nNorthern Red Sea
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There were many theories regarding relationships between Egypt and Mezoamerican cultures.  Yes, there are pyramids, but it only makes sense to worship the sun and what better way to worship than to build structures that point TOWARDS the sun?  \n\nBack in the 70s and 80s a man named Thor Heyerdal built boats out of papyrus and sailed them from Cairo to Yucatan.  He proved that they COULD have sailed to the Americas, but there never was any conclusive evidence of it.  By now, with genetic mapping, someone would have tried to link the Maya or Aztec markers to Pharaonic times.  I have not heard or seen anything to persuade me otherwise.  \n\nIt is much more likely that peoples from later than the Egyptians, with an empire based on sailing and trade, reached the Americas.  Those would be the Phoenicians.  With their origins in the far Eastern Mediterranean (present day Lebanon), a branch split off and founded the empire of Carthage in northern Africa.  They had a trading and sailing monopoly in the ancient world, and a large enough power base that the Greeks gave them a wide berth, and it wasn't until the Romans that they were subdued.  \n\nBut I digress.  Phoenician sailing vessels were rowing galleys with a large sail, similar to a Viking ship, but with several tiers of rowers.  Biremes (two rows) triremes (three tiers), all the way to quintiremes (five), were capable of carrying hundreds of troops.  They were technologically advanced enough that they could have reached the Americas.  Again, no proof.\n\nAs for Atlantis, who knows where Atlantis is.  Some say it was in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.  If that is the case, that was not very far from Egypt, or Northern Africa, but pretty durn far away from Mexico.\n\nSo to asnwer your question:  There is no conclusive evidence of any relationship between the Aztecs or Mayas and the Egyptians.  A pyramid is a fairly basic shape, pointing skyward at the "sun god".  Could simply be coincidence.
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Star Trek and Stargate Atlantis.I wouldn't bring any lobbyists or politicians.Sometimes Sci-fi fantasy makes more sense than reality.
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atlantis: large island in the western sea (the atlantic ocean). plato, in his dialogues the timaeus and the critias, tells of the high civilization that flourished there before the island was destroyed by an earthquake. the legend persists, and societies for the discovery of atlantis remain active. plato described atlantis as an ideal state, and the name is considered synonymous with utopia.\n\npompaii: was an ancient city of s. italy, a port near osettlement, it was a samnite city for centuries before it passed under roman rule at the time of lucius cornelius sulla (1st cent. ). pompeii was not only a flourishing port but a prosperous resort with many villas. an earthquake in 63 did much damage, and an eruption of mt. vesuvius in 79 (which was described by pliny the younger) buried pompeii, along with herculaneum and stabiae, under cinders and ashes that preserved the ruins of the city with magnificent completeness–down to the fresh colors of the wall paintings. the long-forgotten site of the city was rediscovered in 1748 and has been sporadically excavated since that time. the habits and manners of life in roman times have been revealed in great detail at pompeii by the plan of the streets and footpaths, the statue-decorated public buildings, and the simple shops and homes of the artisans. the houses and villas have yielded rare and beautiful examples of roman art. among the most famous are the house of the vetti, the villa of the mysteries, and, in the suburbs of pompeii, the villa of the boscoreale.
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The point in time when Atlantis was lost. That way I could go and find it and make a lot of money.
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Myth. What someone would call their Paradise!
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1) Suez canal\n\n2) Zeus ...greek god
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Check out these sites, I'm sure you will find them fastinating if you are interested in sacred texts.\n\nhttp://www.gnosis.org/library.html\nhttp://davidwiley.com/religion.html\nhttp://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm\nhttp://www.avesta.org/avesta.html\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/index.htm