Is Atlantis a modern lost city underneath the sea. Is it a legend or just pure imagination of it's existence?

Question

Want to know if Atlantis City really existed before?

Answer 1

It is believed to have disappeared under the mediterraen following a volcanic eruption.

The roots of Atlantis can definitely be found in the Mediterranean. According to Plato's Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, Atlantis was an island continent, larger than Libya and Asia put together, which existed before the great biblical flood. Atlantis, according to Plato, was a civilized island continent which existed 9000 years before the "Golden Age" of Greece (479-414B.C.). Plato was writing in the fifth century B.C. This date corresponds with the evidence from geology, indicating that there was a worldwide flood in approximately 9600 B.C. drowning most of Europe and causing the seas to rise more than 200 feet all over the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean. Arab legends and the Koran also describe the Flood and the Book of Genesis gives explicit information about the watery demise of a pre-diluvian world. Arab stories place the Great Flood inside the Mediterranean, which makes it closer to Italy and Greece. However, Plato's story describes Atlantis beyond the Gates of Hercules, a location corresponding to present day Gibraltar and Tangier. That is why I centered my own research in Spain, specifically Cadiz, where I worked with a team of divers for more than three decades to investigate and photograph evidence for Atlantis.

Certainly no cooperation has ever been given to Atlantis researchers by the scientific community. Most official agencies spurn Atlantis, since the discovery and validation of Atlantis would push back biblical history more than 5000 years, an anathema to purists who do not want change the status quo. The truth is that four cities lie underwater from Cadiz to Gibraltar, and these cities are submerged at least 120 feet and resting on the continental shelf. Using the yardarm of 10 feet for every 1000 years of recorded history, we can observe highly developed sunken cities, the remains of which are at least 9000 years old or older (see Internet Website www.web-hed.com.amra). If these remains are not Atlantis, then such evidence still requires that we acknowledge civilization's beginnings at least 5000 years before the earliest Egyptian cities.

At the time of the Great Flood, only 1% of all people on earth survived, probably ending up on Mt. Ararat in Turkey according to Biblical accounts. In fact, Jericho in the Holy Land, has been dated at 9200 B.C. which means that the survivors of Atlantis, may have stayed on the mountaintop for generations before descending the mountain to establish a sea level city similar to what they remembered about their ancestral home-Atlantis.

Legends of all peoples speak about the Great Flood, including the Navaho Indians of the American Southwest and the Mayas of Mexico. Ice cores taken at the North Pole also give evidence of the Great Flood of 9600 B.C. and inscriptions near Gibraltar show people escaping a flood in boats. The survivors of Atlantis are believed to have floated across Spain and across the Mediterranean. In fact, Sicily may have been an early Atlantean survival site as well as Malta and Cyprus, where evidence of advanced civilizations as old as 7500 B.C. have been identified. Some survivors of Atlantis also went as far north as present day Ireland and perhaps also drifted along what is now the Danube River in Northern Europe.

My own research was confined to Spain simply because there was so much speleologic evidence for Atlantis in Iberia as well inscriptions and old textbook materials, some of which were more than 1500 years old and were written in medieval or archaic Spanish. These materials, many of them in private collections, added to my on-site research and led me to believe that Atlantis was indeed a reality. Yet, I was amazed to find that information about Atlantis had been withheld from the general public because of its controversial nature within the religious and scientific communities. It has often been pointed out that religion and science are equally dogmatic in their ideas and highly resistant to change. Evidence about Atlantis has been observed in sequestered archives of the Vatican Library and in the monasteries in Monte Cassino in the north of Italy. It is also a well publicized fact that when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948, both the Christians and the Jews withheld large portions of the scrolls, as well as other books of the Old Testament, because of information about Atlantis that they did not wish to reveal.

Today, in the rapid pace of the twenty-first century, interest in Atlantis is at an all time high. A huge resort called Atlantis has been built in the Bahamas and is believed to be an exact replica of the lost continent. New books have emerged, discussing the issue of Atlantis and reports of Atlantis discoveries have increased on the Internet since 1998.

At present, plans are underway to build a large research center, museum and diving center in Spain devoted to Atlantis research. The discovery and validation of Atlantis may change the history books, as man rediscovers his origins and revises the chronology of the Bible. With space exploration now seen as a priority by many civilized nations, it is more than ever appropriate to dredge up new discoveries at the bottom of the ocean. These discoveries may provide a whole new field of interest for scientists and a complete revision of our cultural heritage.

Answer 2

Atlantis did exist, but is unclear where exactly the island was. Many people think it was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but recent evidence has come up that it was actually in the Mediterranean Sea and was posibly destroyed by a huge volcanic eruption like Pompey. The reason this can't be proven is because there are too many laws preventing any form of excavation in the waters hence no solid evidence.

Remember, people thought that the city of Troy never existed either and that was proven incorrect.

Answer 3

The Atlantean Legend is possible. There were many cities in the ancient Mediterranean world, and many volcanos also! It is possible that the legend of Atlantis came from the absolute destruction of a decent-sized island city-state, taken out by a volcano or tsunami. It would be difficult to find artifacts from such a catastrophe, however. The destruction could have been total, and the civilization only remembered by its neighbors, who came on the wreckage later.

Remember Pompeii?

Answer 4

There are a lot of people who want to know this very answer. Youa re not alone.

The fact is that Plato wrote about it in detailed description. And no evidence has come about through extensive searches for a city that provides the same details that Plato stated.

There have been numberous statements of suggessted Atlantis sites. From the actually discovered city of Troy that did suffer a fate that was described by Homer in the Illyiad and shows remsembling evidence of water damage, to the Bermuda island with its odd roadways of stone under the water. Even locations as bizarre as South America with a circular man made lake, Coastal Spain with a city uncovered in ruins at the base of cliffs, a place in the Indian Ocean, that carries a simular story but with a different name and Antartica are all possible candidates for this search.

Some people have even uncovered Geneological facts regarding the Chinese along the African coast and they surmised that the Chinese with their vast knowledge of sailing ran aground near the Ivory Coast and the ship sank, forcing the surviving sailors to come to the nearest shore...they looked different acted different and could have even contained advance technologies to that culture that found them or traded with them. A mere mistranslation could have translated to the local people that their ship was a city.

Do not fear this question will remain one of the greatest mysteries left unsolved, it will be answered as long as people young and old ask this same question. Always keep searching and never give up.

Just remember that before you can make any acheological digs ya' gotta' know where you are digging at.

Answer 5

You needed to watch a show on the History Channel this past weekend. They talked about the Minoan culture on Crete and Santorini. We don't know their real name--they were named after King Minos by the man who first discovered the civilization in modern times. Their buildings were far advanced of anything else in the Mediterranian at the time. The Egyptians considered them to be the only other culture which was their equal. Plato described Atlantians to be higly advanced--the Minoans even knew how to build earthquake-resistant buildings. Plato said they had stone quarries of both red and white stone, which these islands do. They were also supposed to live in harmony with nature--archeologists are finding beautiful murals of natural scenes. But the entire society disappeared almost literally overnight in 1500 BC. That's because that's when the volcano on Santorini erupted. The most violent eruption we know of was Krakatoa in the late 1800's. The Santorini eruption was at least 10 times that strong. It created an ash cloud about 1 1/2 miles across, which deposited ash as far away as the Nile delta. It blew away half the island of Santorini, and created a tidal wave that covered Crete, which was only 10 miles away. It toppled buildings down to their foundations, and killed all but a few Minoans, and since they were a peaceful society, those were easy pickings for their warlike neighbors. It happened long enough before Plato's time that there were probably not that many Greek records of it (the people are mentioned in Egyptian records), and it may have been considered almost legendary by his time.

Answer 6

I believe that it did exist at one time. There are a few sites that have been explored in suspect of once having been the city, but I don't think anyone has found it with certainty, yet. Though, there is one group who has an extremely plausible location that matches all of Plato's clues exactly. I keep hoping to hear more about their research, but last I heard, they ran out of grant money and were in the process of getting another grant.

Answer 7

They say that it's a myth, a legend, but I believe it to be a real place. I think, possibly, it may have been a volcanic island, or something of the sort, and that natural causes are the reasons it disappeared. Wish I could give you more information, but that's all I got.

Answer 8

The island of Santorini is what's left of ancient Atlantis.

Answer 9

Atlantis is a myth.

Answer 10

Legend. As simple as that.

Nice casino though.