was atlantis a real place and have there ever been things discovered believed to come from there?
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No one knows for sure.  But odds are that some civilization did represent Atlantis at some time in the past.  And that the ancient greeks did repeat the legend of this civilization as a warning to others.  Also, as a play, it was a best seller (no kidding) so it was a very popular story to replay and talk about.  Plato placed it beyond the Pillars of Hercules which is OUTSIDE the Mediterranean in the Atlantic, however, most scientist believe it originated in the Greek or Agean Sea when Thera (or Santorini) exploded destroying everything in a 50 mile radius (even the Island of Cypress).\n\nAlso, the Olmecs in South America at this time used "ATL" (ATLantis) in their city names to mean "of the Sea."  So, perhaps when Plato mentioned in the Atlantic, he didn't know how far away in the Atlantic he was talking about.
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The greek philosopher Plato was the first to describe Atlantis (Timaios and Kritias). According to Plato, it disappeared about 9.000 years before him. Strangely enough there are no other sources to confirm that, so most probably, Plato invented the story himself, maybe inspired by a natural disaster, like the explosion of the volcano Thera 1.500 b.c.\nDonnelly revitalised the story in a book from 1882. And later Madame Blavatsky.\nOceanologists have not found any profe of Atlantis, though they know the oceans quite well. So how interesting the story about Atlantis is, most probably it is just another good story!
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actually I found out a lot\n\ncome to find out I was both a Sioux and a Cherokee.  I was also a Mayan. (Thought that was interesting, but explained my desire to go to Central America)\n\nAlso, I lived in France. My best friends mother one time called me some name and I responded without even knowing she didnt say my real name.  She looked into it (she was a psychic) and told me that she was my mother and thats why we met this time around.\n\nUm..oh yea, I was a pirate I was told.  Guess that explains my love for boats and the ocean.\n\nPretty cool...if you believe in this stuff.  I do and I was very interested and excited.\n\nNow, if you really want to see what you believe in, I was also told that I once lived at Atlantis and I was a leader, however because I wasnt very patient and got angry quickly, I wasnt a leader for long.  Eh well.
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People have been looking for that for 2000 years or more. Nothing has been found.\n\nGeological and archeological evidence shows there WAS a big flood in the middle east, south of the Black Sea, some time between human installation and the beginning of recorded history, but nothing as world destroying as described in the bible.
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Could Atlantis Still Exist?\nTheories abound as to what happened to the civilisation known as Atlantis, as written about by Plato. The oldest theory, that it sank into the Atlantic Ocean, has been dismissed as the bottom of the oceans have been mapped. There is a theory that it may have been off the coast of England, or near Hawaii. Recently, however, a theory has been proposed by authors Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, in their book When the Sky Fell, that the island continent of Atlantis still exists today – under the ice of Antarctica.\n\nThere is a whole body of evidence that suggests there may be more than meets the eye with the Antarctica/Atlantis theory, at least in as far as Antarctica once had a sub-tropical to temperate climate. For this to be the case, one of two things has to be true. Either the poles were far removed from where they are now, or Antarctica had to be far removed. There is real evidence that both of these conditions have been fulfilled during the course of this planet's history.\n\nLet's consider the first possibility. It's a documented fact that the North Pole moves. Between 1900 and 1960, it moved ten feet in the direction of Greenland. That's 2.5 inches, or 60mm, a year. Between 1960 and 1968 the pole also moved another ten feet, this time at a rate of 100mm or four inches per year. Not only is the pole moving, but the rate of motion is increasing. In other words, it is accelerating. There is also a theory that suggests the North and South Poles have switched places during the history of the planet.\n\nSo on to the second condition. In Antarctica, very little flourishes. The plains of Antarctica can reach a brisk minus 90°C whilst the coastal areas reach a comparatively tropical minus 60°C. There are no indigenous land animals, although the coastline is home to seabird rookeries. The Encyclopaedia Britannica lists all the burgeoning plant life; 'Lichens, mosses and liverworts, moulds, yeasts, other fungi, algae and bacteria...'. In other words, as far as plant life goes, it resembles your kitchen when a lodger has been away for the weekend and no-one else has cleaned up after you.\n\n500 miles north of the South Pole is the fossilised remains of a forest, 7,000 feet up Mount Ahernar. It is believed to be from the Permian period, 260 million years ago. In 1935, Admiral Byrd's South Pole expedition found fossilised leaves, stems and wood two miles above sea level on the side of Mount Weaver. The Russians have found evidence of tropical flora dating back to the early Tertiary period. In 1990, fossils from a deciduous beach forest were found 250 miles from the South Pole – fossils that were only two or three million years old. In 1986, fossilised wood and plants were discovered that showed some places on the continent were ice-free as little as 100,000 years ago. The University of Illinois says that sedimentary core samples show that rivers were running to the sea in 4,000BC.\n\nIn the Arctic Circle the story is the same. Fossilised palm leaves have been found, as have fossilised crustaceans that can only survive in tropical waters. These were found at Spitzbergen, which today is ice-bound for ten months of the year and cannot be reached by sea. The palm leaves and marine fossils show that a sea that had a comparable temperature to the Caribbean today once surrounded this island. On Baffin Island, 900 miles from the North Pole, alder and birch remains found in peat show that the island had a much warmer, temperate climate only 30,000 years ago.\n\nThese plants cannot grow at the temperatures that these regions experience today. They cannot grow in the regimes of 24-hour periods of darkness followed by 24-hour periods of daylight. Either the poles were in different places than they are now, or these lands were in different geographical locations than they are now.\n\nIf the Antarctic continent had once been positioned much further north than it is now – say, in the middle of
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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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Aha!\n\nPerhaps it would be best to clue you into a direct exploration currently in progress:\n\nIn short, this is directly copied from the BBC :)  The exploration continues, and more evidance is being found, so good reading:\n\nAmerican researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. \nThe team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology. \n\nThey believe they found evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor, including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill. \n\nThey say their discoveries match accounts of the city written by Plato. \n\n\n'Greatest coincidence' \n\nTeam leader Robert Sarmast said the walls appear to be sited on a flat-topped hill where the temples of Atlantis once stood. \n\n \nMyth or reality? It is said to be a place of beauty and wealth \nHe intends to use the sonar data to make a three-dimensional computer image of the site, 1.5km below sea level, before returning for further research. \n\n\n"The hill, as a whole, basically looks like a walled, hillside territory and this hillside territory matches Plato's description of the Acropolis hill with perfect precision," he said. \n\n"Even the dimensions are exactly perfect, so if all these things are coincidental, I mean, we have the world's greatest coincidence going on." \n\nHowever, Mr Sarmast and his team are not alone in believing they have found the lost city of Atlantis. \n\n \nSonar technology was used to survey the sea bed off Cyprus \nOther researchers have placed it off the coast of Spain, Cuba and the south west of England, as well as under the South China Sea. \n\nThe story of Atlantis, a fabled utopia destroyed in ancient times, has captured the imagination of scholars ever since it was first described by the philosopher Plato. \n\nWriting more than 2,000 years ago, he depicted a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty.
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All the dimensions given in Plato's account of Atlantis are approximately 10 times the size of Crete.  Its distance from Egypt is about 10 times the distance of Crete, too, and the date of its destruction is 10 times longer ago than the volcanic eruption and tidal wave which probably destroyed Minoan Crete in 1500 BC.\n\nIt is very plausible that when Solon got this story from an Egyptian priest, he mistranslated the numbers, and Plato just copied them, which would have put Atlantis beyond the pillars of Hercules instead of just south of Greece.
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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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A legendary triangle of Ocean lies between 3 countries upon the Atlantic ocean. The Cities are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. Ships, people and aeroplanes have been reported mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth whilst travelling inside this triangle. It soon acquired the name "Devils Triangle" owing to peoples superstitions that the devil was at play on this stretch of ocean and gobbling up weary and lost travellers with great delight, but what actually was at play inside this triangle of rough water, is it really the devil?, or perhaps aliens are using this spot as their home base on earth. Maybe it really does contain a mystical vortex that sucks people down into a third dimension.\n\nThe myth of the mysterious triangle was first begun in an Associated Press dispatch of September 16, 1950. Reporter E.V. W. Jones wrote of "mysterious disappearances" of ships and planes between the Florida coast and Bermuda. Two years after this article appeared Fate magazine ran an article by George X. Sand about a "series of strange marine disappearances, each leaving no trace whatever, that have taken place in the past few years" in a "watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico".\n\nIt was not long before ideas and suggestions started forming about this piece of ocean. M.K. Jessup wrote about the disappearances and gave ideas about alien intelligences being behind them in the book "The Case for the UFO. The view was also echoed by Donald E. Kyhoe who is noted for his "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" of 1955. Frank Edwards (Stranger Than Science) agreed with the theory of aliens having a local hangout in the triangle as well. Finally a man by the name of Vincent H. Gaddis came up with the phrase "Bermuda Triangle".\n\nVincent Gaddis wrote an article in February 1964's edition of Argosy and incorporated the story later in his book "Invisible Horizons" titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle". And there was the birth of the now world famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.\n\nThroughout the years it has featured in many many articles, books, television series and movies and always portrayed as a very real and mysterious thing, but anyone out there with any sense surely will ask themselves " how in this day and age could boats, planes and other travellers just go mysteriously missing in a certain piece of water?" "wouldn't an aeroplane full of international travellers be afraid to travel over this part of the ocean"....Well let me tell you I've always asked the same questions myself and I personally have come to the conclusion that the entire thing is nothing more than a myth hyped up over the years by wrong facts and silly overexaggerated stories told down through the generations of people willing to listen to any kind of mysterious story with a unknown edge to it.
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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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You should read "The Mystery of Atlantis" by Charles Berlitz, it uses real evidence to discuss whether or not Atlantis existed and if so where was it and who were its people? It places the position of Atlantis similar to your line of thinking using maps and recounts of ancient greeks and mayans who recorded trade with people who were in all liklihood from Atlantis.
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Well common sense, to me it sort of goes like this....\nALL mythology has some sort of real-world counterpart.  What this means is that essentially that all myths contain some sort of universal truth when you strip away the dross.  As far as mythological creatures are concerned, I do believe that some may have definantly existed.  To say things such as ancient mariners thought that manatees were mermaids is a bit presumptuous.  That's making a giant assumption, saying that we know what and how ancient mariners thought, which we obviously cannot know for a fact.  So called mythological creatures are being discovered all the time.  A few years back, a breed of deer was discovered in Asia that was thought to have been a mythological creature.  It was tiny and breathed through the sides of its snout instead of having a nose.  For centuries, science scoffed at its existence, until one day someone caught one...And science looked stupid, as it does so often by down-playing things that don't fit its paradigm.\nThe unicorn was a creature featured in the original painting of the creatures going into Noah's Ark, two by two...I believe that they were probably abundant somewhere in the wrld at one time, but got wiped out as so many species do.\nIN fact, we discover new species of creatures every single day...Fish we thought were extinct, thus becoming the realm of myth....Giant squid, Giant sharks (Aussie Coast), and a plethora of critters that by our own technical and scientific standards shouldn't even exist (all those little critters living along the Mariennes Trench in water that's well over the temperature  that's supposed to support life)....\nIn closing, my answer to you is a YES.  I do believe at one point the so called "mythological" creatures not only existed, but were common as well.  Hit some of the crypto zoology websites and you'll see what I mean about everything I've written....Sites that deal with forbidden history are also a great source of information.\nPEACE!
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I guess they exist!\n\nDugongs have bee mistaken as mermaids by sex-crazed sailors, but I guess the mers are really out there!\n\nI bet you they're just waiting for the right opportunity to move the city of Atlantis out of the water and stuff like that! We just have to wait! :)
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Yes, there is a geographical area of the atlatic ocean known as the bermuda triangle.  I think your question should be.....\nDo the phenomina associated with the bermuda triangle really exist.
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I am not a Stargate Atlantis viewer.\nTry http://imdb.com/title/tt0374455/\nYou can discuss it more in depth here.
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a while back i asked a pastor that question at a friends house and we got into that discussion.. its not really proven yet where the Garden actually was.. some relegious groups say it never really existed and it was a heaven thing, but then in Genesis says Adam and Eve were the first persons on earth and they were at the garden. \n\nYet most geographicians(if thats a word lol) believe to be on the Middle East, near Mesopotamia. and that is because on text is say from Eden the river diveded into 4 other rivers or 4 branches which is tigris, Euphrates, Pishon, & Gohin. Today 2 of those rivers are no longer with water.. but from satellite photos, has reveled 2 dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf, near where Tigris and Euphrates also terminate..\n\nwell hope that helped u asnwer ur question!!