What do you guys know about the Lost City of Atlantis?

Question

Details please!!!!!!

Answer 1

The city of Atlantis has been found. The ruins are now known as Akrotiri and are located on the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea.

The city was located on a ringed island which surrounded an inner island which was the dome of the volcano. The city was destroyed in one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human history and tsunamis from it also devastated other Minoan/Atlantean cities on Crete.

The buildings on the central island where completely destroyed in the eruption, so we can only guess what might have once been there. The buildings on the outer island were covered in ash and preserved, just like Pompeii. These ruins show that the people of Akrotiri were living in buildings several stories high that had indoor plumbing and sewage systems.

The Greek settlements of the same time consisted of one-story mud huts and the Greeks had no plumbing or sewage systems. Compared to every other civilization of their time, the people of Akrotiri and Crete were extremely advanced. They traded extensively with Egypt and the arrogant Egyptians considered the Minoans/Atlanteans to be the only other civilized nation on Earth. If you know anything about the Egyptians, that last statement speaks volumes about the Minoans.

Akrotiri might disappoint people who dream of a lost civilization spanning the world. However, the Minoans were the most advanced civilization of their time and their cities were completely destroyed by tsunamis in an eruption during which the central island of Santorini permanently sank beneath the waves (the central island of today is completely new and has arisen since the eruption that destroyed Akrotiri). If that doesn't fit the myth of Atlantis, then nothing ever will.

Answer 2

The delusion of Atlantis is most probably founded off the specific crisis that came about the Minoans decades in the past. Their civilization died while a significant volcano blew the island their essential town of used to be on correct out of the sea, all that is left is a hoop of rock. It did not relatively sink, however you'll guess the reviews of any survivors might have stated it did they usually have been rather complex for his or her time. Plato most probably tailored this into his tale of Atlantis. As for the Bermuda Triangle. No. More ships disappear within the Bering Strait (the ocean among Russia and Alaska) then within the Triangle. It's simply the Triangle has been mythologized to the factor of all different locations are actually neglected.

Answer 3

the lost city of Atlantis was an advanced society full of culture. It pre-dated the ancient Greeks, and had 3 to 5 storied buildings, hot and cold running water on all floors of all buildings, flushing toilets, the most advanced navy in pre-history, and was the seat of power for most of the (then) known world.

Their capital was built on an island, but it was not just an island, it was a dormant volcano. Some realized the destruction that would soon occur when repetitive quakes started getting stronger and stronger, and fumaroles burst out of vents on the island. This is where the Pharonic Priests" mentioned in druidic lore came from.

The majority did not try to evacuate until it was too late. an eruption 25 times greater than Krakatoa blasted the area and caused a mega tsunami that inundated the Island and the kingdom of Crete on the mainland and destroying the Atlantian navy.

Just search the Minoans, or the history of the island of Santorinie

Answer 4

tahkeyah k,

As I watched a wonderful TV show on the History channel, it hit me that everything SCIFIGUY said is the TV show, so he has the most current correct answer of Atlantis. It would be nice if the reality was as wonderful as the ideas through the years, but sorry to say reality wins again. Island nation in Mediterranean, as SCIFIGUY said.
Still in another dimension Atlantis lives so don't be depressed, OK!

Answer 5

Biblical scholars believe the translated city of Enoch (his city was taken up into heaven) is the city of Atlantis. They say if you put pangaea back together there is a hole in eastern Europe where his city should have been... I saw it on like the History Channel or something about the Apopchrypha

Answer 6

It says they had a giant crystal they used for war. It
backfired and destroyed the major part of the civilization.
Ezekiel 1:22 KJV. "Terrible crystal!"
They say they don't know who the Chittim are in the Bible. I think they were the Atlanteans. The Red people were the dominant
race back then.
Chittimwood in the dictionary is a type of American woo. ,So America, where the Red people migrated to from Atlantis, would be the Chittim mentioned in Daniel, who will grieve the King of Babylon in the Last Days.
The crystal is said to be in the Bermuda Triangle. And there
is a place in Peru called the Nazca Plains. Some say it
was made by aliens. But it was made by the Atlanteans. From the sky it looks like an airport. But it's ancient.
How was that?

Answer 7

Atlantis
Encyclopædia Britannica Article


also spelled Atalantis, or Atlantica, a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, lying west of the Straits of Gibraltar. The principal sources for the legend are two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In the former, Plato describes how Egyptian priests, in conversation with the Athenian lawgiver Solon, described Atlantis as an island larger than Asia Minor and Libya combined, and situated just beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar). About 9,000 years before the birth of Solon, the priests said, Atlantis was a rich island whose powerful princes conquered many of the lands of the Mediterranean until they were finally defeated by the Athenians and the latter's allies. The Atlantians eventually became wicked and impious, and their island was swallowed up by the sea as a result of earthquakes. In the Critias, Plato supplied a history of the ideal commonwealth of the Atlantians.

Atlantis is probably a mere legend, but medieval European writers who received the tale from Arab geographers believed it to be true, and later writers tried to identify it with an actual country. After the Renaissance, for example, attempts were made to identify Atlantis with America, Scandinavia, and the Canary Islands. The story of Atlantis, if Plato did not invent it, may in fact reflect ancient Egyptian records of a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera about 1500 BC. This eruption, one of the most stupendous of historical times, was accompanied by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis that shattered civilization on Crete, thereby perhaps giving rise to the legend of Atlantis.



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Answer 8

Want to know about Atlantis read this


http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html

Answer 9

In a book called Book of Mormon, during the time of Christ death great earthquake and tempest rocks the palce now called the American continent and it mentioned there of great cities lost on seas too.
The Atlantis is not farfetched but you have to understand that they are gone and drowned

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis