do you believe in the lost continent of atlantis?

Question

the idea of an advanced antediluvian culture is interesting to me, and it is a pretty cool donovan song.

Answer 1

More than I believe in God

Answer 2

Atlantis specifically? I'm not sure...

But the idea that an advanced culture (that may or may not have been as -- or more -- advanced as us) disappearing suddenly, yes. Look at the Aztecs, the Incas. Look at what the Vikings are believed to have done in the Northern climes...

By today's Engineering standards, the Pyramids make no sense.

What is the purpose of Stonehenge?

There is a lot about human history that is confusing and inconsistent.

I personally like the story put forth by Stargate SG-1... no, I don't believe it is true, but the idea that other space faring cultures "used us" would explain a lot that seems unlikely with our current understanding of engineering and history.

Proving it is a whole different story. And while I have an open mind about possibilities, I yearn for proof, not supposition.

Answer 3

Atlantis is what a Greek philosopher wrote about in one of his books and that with other writing of other people which prove that Atlantis did exist and was destroyed by an volcano and earthquake............................. And there is plenty of evidence of that but most of this racist world want to believe that Africans or the black man was capable of such greatness. So this racist world would rather die or turn the Atlanteans white before the admit that they were Africans some other famous Black Men turned white or Chinese was Attila The Hun, and Genghis Khan, and Hannibal. As well as a few others, that a racist historian won't talk about. Another point in history is that Attila The Hun and Genghis Khan were both born in Yugoslavia not that far apart, And they were some of the greatest Conqueror know to mankind. And then ther was Hannibal who was born in Africa..
Hannibal was totally Black, Attila along with Genhis were Black and Oriental....
And if you never seen a Black Man with slanted eye try visiting Africa and Madagascar...... How is that for a history lesson.....

Answer 4

Maybe we already found it and it's called Antartica. There are supposed to be some really old maps, from ancient times, which show what Antartica would look like if it were free of ice.

And the interesting thing is . . . the maps are accurate.

The problem is? Nobody back in ancient times had ground penetrating radar. So the only way it could have been mapped this way, would be if it were free of ice. More than one warm spell has melted the ice in the past. Even now, scientists are discovering dinosaur remains; and even the remains of tropical jungles. So who knows if there were some kind of ancient civilization living there at some point in history.

Except we will know by the end of this century.

Due to the effects of global warming, Antartica will be warm enough for trees and other vegetation to grow, by the end of this century. Maybe when the ice starts melting, we will discover a lot more down there besides penquins.

Answer 5

Atlantis is the American Continent. Probably the lost cities are the Mayan or Aztecs empires. This concept is clear to me. If the New Continents doesn't "exist" at this time, why believe in the existence of another one between Europe-Africa and America. If you look at the underwater maps of the Atlantic Ocean I'm sure you can't find a lost Continent.

Answer 6

I don't believe there ever was a continent of Atlantis. I do believe that the Minoans were the people referred to by the legend of Atlantis, however. The Minoans were a great people who gained riches from their far flung trade ties throughout the Mediterranean at about the time Mycenaean culture was becoming more powerful in Greece.

Answer 7

No. It is a miss-telling of several oral histories that stem from the end of the last ice age. There are stone age structures all over the world from that time period that are exactly where ancient people would have built stone walls or temples if the sea levels were 50 feet lower.

Add in the destruction of the island where the Minoan culture was, tack on a few hundred years of bad re-telling of tales of survivors and run it through Egypt, then add a few hundred more years of re-telling and THEN translate it into Greek, add another couple of decades and there you have Plato's "Atlantis".

History is far more interesting than myth.

Answer 8

When I lived on the coast of Ireland in a place called Tralee, there was a legend of a place called TirNa'nog..this is said in Celtic legend to be the lost continent of Atlantis..It's ruins can be seen at low tide off the coast of Ireland(WEST). I saw them when I was 8 Years old ....it changed my life forever and made me a believer in ancient civilizations...A lot of ancient history records were destroyed by the so called Christians and conquers of the world..God , if only the Library of Alexandria had survived can you imagine how our view of the ancient world would be...There may have been a civilization like ours that existed but managed to destroy itself and erase all memory from the historical records so that now it would only be tall tales or legends...If our world today was ended and our historical records destroyed///what would future humans have to inform them of our existance but the tales handed down orally by the survivors of a catastrophe...Think about it ...It is a fascinating subject and can open a closed mind to so many possiblities...Remeber,,no mystery is closed to an open mind....

Answer 9

it rather is Antarctica. by using fact that continent rather exists, i could say that's actual. pass forward and snort, yet bear in mind, our view of a polar earth is constrained to the present day "North - South" view; there replaced right into a time whilst Antarctica replaced into placed interior the midsection latitudes, and in case you observed what I observed on a satellite tv for pc image of that continent, you too could have faith that there replaced into as quickly as a civilization there.

Answer 10

Of course. Personally, all myths and legends have a seed of truth in them, however, I believe that the story of Atlantis is a historical one.

Answer 11

I definitely believe in it. It's pretty ignorant to think that Earth has been like this forever. Just look how New Orleans is going under, it shows that it can happen!