Okay smartie pants, do you think that there is a lost city of Atlantis?
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Locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Indonesia and the Caribbean have been proposed as the true site of Atlantis. The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar would coincide with some elements of Plato's account, matching both the location and the date of submersion given in the Critias. In the area of the Black Sea at least three locations have been proposed: Bosporus, Sinop and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon). The nearby Sea of Azov was proposed as another site in 2003. Various islands or island groups in the Atlantic were also identified as possible locations, notably the Azores (Mid-Atlantic islands which are a territory of Portugal), and several Caribbean islands. In Northern Europe, Finland (by Finnish pseudohistorian Ior Bock), Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in "Atland", 1672-1702), Ireland, and the North Sea have been proposed (Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson combines the North Sea and Ireland in a comprehensive hypothesis). Areas in the Pacific and Indian Ocean have also been proposed including Indonesia, Malaysia or both (i.e. Sundaland) and stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have drawn parallels to Atlantis. Even Cuba has been suggested. The Canary Islands have also been identified as a possible location, west of the Straits of Gibraltar but in close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Some believe that Atlantis stretched from the tip of Spain to Central America.\n\nAtlantis is the subject of a modern legend about an advanced island civilization that was destroyed or lost. Stories about Atlantis are first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in which characters say it was destroyed by an earthquake or a tsunami about 9,000 years before the time in which Plato wrote. The story claims Atlantis was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules (also known as the Strait of Gibraltar). According to Plato, the story originated with Egyptian priests.\n\nMost people acknowledge that the stories are fictions made up to serve the purposes of Plato's dialogs. But others take them as if they were serious historical accounts. There have been dozens — perhaps hundreds — of locations proposed for the classical Atlantis. Some are more-or-less serious attempts at legitimate scholarly or archaeological works; others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. As continental drift became better understood and accepted during the 1950's, most "Lost Continent" theories of Atlantis have been proven conclusively false.\n\nSome cultures have "lost civilization" myths. In some cases, it has been argued that there is a common historical event or real "lost civilization" at the root of some or all of these legends, but there is considerable disagreement between the competing hypotheses. It may be that these legends have arisen from many different historical events, and are only just now being associated by modern theorizers because of their similarity. It may also be that these legends are entirely fictional, but for some reason have arisen and remained popular in many different cultures at different times.\n\nOf course there is always the possibility that there is no real location for Atlantis simply because Plato intended the story as an allegory, similar to his story of the cave.\n\nMany theories of Atlantis center around the Mediterranean. In part because of the Greek myth which is the first written record of Atlantis, but it was also a superhighway of transport in ancient times, allowing for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region. The roots of Western civilization began in the Mesopotamia in nearby modern day Iraq. Some of the more popular theories include the Minoan civilization on Crete, the island of Sardinia as well as some other river valley civilizations.\n\nAndalucia is a region in modern day southern Spain and host to the lost city of Tartessos, which disappeared
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Atlantis is the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea.\n\nIt was originally a city built on a volcanic island ... until the volcano exploded in one of the largest eruptions in human history.  The resulting tidal wave also devastated many of the islands and coastal areas surrounding the Mediterranean.\n\nThe common idea of Atlantis as a continent in the Atlantic is the result of mistranslations from the ancient Egyptian where PLATO \n(not Aristotle) learned of the island.
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Come on man! everybody know that there is an area called area 51! Do you mean if are there any secrets in the are of 51. My answer is: I don't have any idea:)
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I would want to go to Atlantis (preferably during the time of the Ancients) but I would be content with just going there. My motive for wanting to go would be the same as Daniel's, the wealth of knowledge and everything that I could learn by going there would be a dream come true. But if I did have a Stargate (or access to one) than I don't think I'd ever return to Earth, there's just so much out there to discover, and so many secrets of the Universe waiting to be uncovered.
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I think its a possibitly that it did exist - or at least a place like it. Otherwise there wouldn't never had been as much talk about it. Plus, I think it would just be the sh!t if it did exist!! :)
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yes, definitely. The New World did need to be discovered.  It was fine on its own.
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There is a lot of speculation about where the Garden of Eden was located. I've not drawn any conclusions yet as to the exact location, but it very well could have been in Mesopotamia.
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There is no concrete evidence to prove or disaprove its existance. Plato in one of his discusions with Socrates mentions A City far more civilized than that of theirs . He thought it was located far to the west of africa wich would point its location close to South America. Through moder investigation some clame it did exist Close to what we know as The Bermuda Triangle.
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The only written and known record of Atlantis was what Plato the Greek Philosopher wrote about it in his work Timeus. \n\nYou should check it out. You can find this short essay free on\nwww.gutenberg.org or put THE GUTENBERG PROJECT on your Internet browser.\n\nAtlantis Mythology does not exist, but many fictional stories had been made that includes Gods in the media (TV, movies, etc) recently, but thats it only good ole 20th century fiction.
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Sure, they have a secret air force base there.\nIt is located underwater.
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Yes indeed! there are the Holy Scripts, they were found between Jordan and Isreal somewhere below the Dead Sea..
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Mu supposedly existed before Atlantis.   I have heard if you cup your palm (one or the other) like you were going to drink water from it and you see a capital M in the creases, you are an old soul and came from the land of Mu.   Lots of interesting stuff out there about Mu and Atlantis.
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When Plato's ancestor Solon went to Sais in Egypt (600 BC), the priests told him about Atlantis. They also said that inscriptions on their temple walls told how many times civilisations had risen to great heights and then fallen because of natural catastrophes such as floods, fire, earthquakes, etc. I think that maybe we are being a little presumptuous to think that it can't happen to us. I have spent the last 15/20 years researching a related subject and in my opinion the last great catastrophe was 9600 BC, with the sudden and abrupt end of the mini-ice-age called the Younger Dryas period. I believe that this is the basis of the Biblical flood. Getting back to today - the Christian versus Muslim thing - yep, of course it coming, you can smell it! I should imagine that most of the faceless men in grey suits already know this and are moving their pieces on the world chess board accordingly. Humans are amazing - we've been on the moon and sent machines out to beyond the solar system, I can pick up my phone and talk immediately to a person on the other side of the world, I can sit in my armchair and with the smallest of thumb movements be entertained by 100 different TV channels - but with the flick of an eyelid this civilisation can be destroyed because people believe that their unseen and unproven overlord of the cosmos is better than the other man's invisible and all-seeing ever-present boss. It almost makes you want to scream! We're such clever animals - but I don't think that we're too intelligent - and when it's all over we'll begin again.
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atlantis. believed by plato to have sunk into the ocean.
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Yes! Most definetly! I think that there are hidden treasures within all of the world wonders. It's cool that you asked that question!
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Allright I didn't want to get into it but if no one else is going to fine. First of all when people talk about Atlantis they're using the wrong term. Plato was the first person to mention the legend of Atlantis, it might have been passed on as an oral tradition prior to that, or he may have been using it as an allegory. If it was a real thing he refered to (which seems probable as he was pretty specific in detail) then some scientists believe they have found it, and the evidence is pretty good. They found a civilization, quite advanced, sacrificed bulls, on an island with red black and white stones, that was a seafaring race, and was destroyed by a tsunami. All coinciding with what Plato said.\n Now then, when most people speak of Atlantis what they refer to is the Great Civilization Myth. This is the theory that there was a great mother civilization that is the source of early technology and knowledge through the world (or at least a large portion of Europe, Africa, and South/Central America. This civilization supposedly flourished for 16000 years until it put science ahead of nature and caused such imbalance that the Earth went into turmoil and threw mankind back to a near stoneage existence with only memory of their deads. This cycle has supposedly occured several times. This seems crazy at first sight, but who knows. There is a fascinating book called Forbidden Archeology that documents some interesting anomalies (although I don't believe it goes into the Atlantis myth). It is a source of more questions than answers but if you're really interested you should at least check out the website, even if you don't by the book. www.forbiddenarcheology.com\n\nOkay above I have dealt with facts, theories, and myths (and yes I know I've left out a whole bunch of stuff but I'm dealing with The Great Civilization theory not the one that dissappeared, or where did who originate so I'm not going into the Olmecs or the Egyptians or any of thatstuff because it really doesn't apply. There are plenty of civilizations that just up and blew away but none were advanced enough or powerful enough to qualify) but a discussion of Atlantis can not be concluded without bringing Edgar Cayce into the mix. As far as psychics go I'm generally sceptical, but Cayce did come up with some interesting things that should at least be looked into. First he predicted that Atlantis would be found of the coast of Florida, and in the year he predicted what appear to be submerged docks were indeed found (although they could be natural formations). Secondly he predicted that the Atlantians left behind two great storehouses of information. One was lost in South America, the other would be found in a room under the paws of the Sphinx (by the way the Sphinx is most definately much, much older than the pyramids and in fact when it was carved the valley of the pyramids is beieved to have been a tropical jungle) well it turns out that sonar readings have discovered what to all appearances is a giant room under the Sphinx! Maybe it's natural but as soon as the information was revealed the Egyptian government shut the team down and to this day won't even let people approach the Sphinx let alone study it. Well there you go, that's a quick intro there's plenty of research you can do from here, but it might be wiser to just let it go. You may find yourself banging your head against a wall if you decide that you've got to figure out the truth:)
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Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa.\n\nThis was the island of Atlantis.\n\nAtlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her.\n\nCleito gave birth to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers of Atlantis. The island was divided among the brothers with the eldest, Atlas, first King of Atlantis, being given control over the central hill and surrounding areas.\n\nAt the top of the central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon which housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of Atlantis would come to discuss laws, pass judgments, and pay tribute to Poseidon..\n\nTo facilitate travel and trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to the sea.\n\nThe city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer ring of water and spread across the plain covering a circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated area where the majority of the population lived.\n\nBeyond the city lay a fertile plain 330 miles (530 km) long and 110 miles (190 km) wide surrounded by another canal used to collect water from the rivers and streams of the mountains. The climate was such that two harvests were possible each year. One in the winter fed by the rains and one in the summer fed by irrigation from the canal.\n\nSurrounding the plain to the north were mountains which soared to the skies. Villages, lakes, rivers, and meadows dotted the mountains.\n\nBesides the harvests, the island provided all kinds of herbs, fruits, and nuts. An abundance of animals, including elephants, roamed the island.\n\nFor generations the Atlanteans lived simple, virtuous lives. But slowly they began to change. Greed and power began to corrupt them. When Zeus saw the immorality of the Atlanteans he gathered the other gods to determine a suitable punishment.\n\nSoon, in one violent surge it was gone. The island of Atlantis, its people, and its memory were swallowed by the sea.\n\n\nim greek what can i say lol