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by Sarita1 Goes Bollywood on March 10th, 2007

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Do you believe the ruins located in the Atlantic Ocean are those of Atlantis?

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  • by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 16th, 2007

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    According to the History Channel the ruins of Atlantis are located off the coast of Cyprus. this is still one of history's mysteries but as they are the best source to answer this question I will go with them.
    http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=205677&action=detail

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  • by Jack Wallace on February 2nd, 2009

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    I must have missed something, but I haven't heard of any ruins being discovered recently in the Atlantic. I've heard about the ones near Japan in the Pacific, but not the Atlantic.

    However, as sea levels were about 100 feet lower towards the end of the last Ice Age, Stone Age settlements may well have existed in these coastal regions, and been destroyed in the Quarternary (Ice Age) Extinction Event.

    Also, sea levels have varied by as much as 40 feet over the last 8000 years (we're now at a high point - but there have been significant downs as well as ups over the millennia) and many ancient coastal settlements from many different ages are now under the sea... but many of these date back only a few centuries. For example, circa 1400 AD, sea-levels were at one of their lowest points in recorded history, about 15-16 feet below where they are now: the Bimini Road was above water; Florida, Cuba and Haiti were significantly larger; and many of the Bahamas were connected to their neighbors.

    The point is, that until the ruins can be dated, conjectures about them having anything to do with Atlantis are wildly unjustified (particularly since a cataclysm on the scale Plato describes wouldn't have left much of anything standing; and after 5000+ years under water on the continental shelfs, even most stones would have been ground into sand and pebbles, or engulfed by coral, silt, or marine life.

    FYI, The Minoan "Empire" was not Atlantis - at least as Plato described it, nor was it the source/inspiration of the legend. Plato was clear that the Egyptian sources spoke of SEVERAL periods of civilization that had each been destroyed in a cataclism. Atlantis was merely the most glorious of them all; and the one that had the most terrible fall. Other factors in the account suggest that the Egyptian sources were aware of the Minoan collapse, and that this came well after Atlantis. It is quite possible, however, that the cataclysm that befell Crete & Santorini (and indeed the whole eastern Mediterranean) probably resulted in stories about it getting confused and entwined with Atlantean legends.

    If Atlantis (as described by Plato) existed, it had to have been destroyed in the Quarternary (Ice Age) Extinction Event about 8000 BC. Its location was most likely in Antarctica: it fits Plato's description, including the oft omitted statment that after being swallowed by the sea, it was buried under Ice. The theory that the Poles shifted catastrophically at that time explains how it was habital before the cataclism.

    (If you doubt the Axis shifted, look at the pattern of glacial lakes on a globe: you'll see they form a circle around the southern tip of Greenland, indicating that that was the Geographic North Pole at the end of the last Ice Age. This would put much of Antarctica into the Sub-Arctic and Temperate zones.)

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  • by Nick1991_16 on November 7th, 2007

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    Atlantis is located outside the pillars of Hercules according to Plato thats why the ocean was called Atlantic ocean.Also The reason that its located there and not Cyprus and Santorini as most people think is because Plato said that Atlantis size is Nubia and Asia combined(when Plato says Asia he means the time known Asia) so it couldn't possibly fit next to Cyprus or Santorini.

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  • by Nelson L. Squeeko on April 16th, 2007

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    Would there really be any way to prove that it is Atlantis tho? The only recorded information about it is debatable whether that information is fact or fiction. Unless they happened to find some artifact like a "Welcome to the city of Atlantis" sign, it'd be hard pressed to prove it being Atlantis over some other city.

    Also, I think the whole mystery of Atlantis would be lost if it was actually found. Just my opinion though.

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  • by anglrckx on April 16th, 2007

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    not sure, but it would be cool if it was.

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  • by Anonymous on March 10th, 2007

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    There are probably ruins from many cities buried beneath the waves of The Atlantic. Its possible that some of the ruins could be from the mythical Atlantis.

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  • by billygu123 on April 16th, 2007

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    yes! im not an expert but how else did there get there... i would like to beleif

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  • by Eamonmc on February 2nd, 2009

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    The connections of eygpt and south american structures and painting, paint a picture that there may indeed have been a continent in the atlantic. Possibly with ocean faring skills far superior to other at that time. But we as a people will never be in agreement if the 'real' Atlantis is found.

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  • by Mr.Troll_has_a_COAT! on January 24th, 2009

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    problably not, atlantis would be harder to find, plus it is problably barried under a ton of dirt, atlantis was before egypt. and mabey before sumaria, so i imagine that no. if they found it, then problably not atlantis. i bet it is realy hard to find. we are talking thousands of years worth of dirt. mabey 3-5 thosand years or MORE!

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