Where is Atlantis, the lost city?

Answer 1

Since Donnelly's day, there have been dozens—perhaps hundreds—of locations proposed for Atlantis. Some are scholarly or archaeological works whilst others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. Many of the proposed sites share some of the characteristics of the Atlantis story (water, catastrophic end, relevant time period), but none has been proven conclusively to be the historical Atlantis. Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea, either islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Cyprus, Malta, and Ponza or as land based cities or states such as Troy, Tartessos or Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey, and the new theory of Israel-Sinai or Canaan as possible locations. The massive Thera eruption, dated either to the 17th or the 15th century BC, caused a massive tsunami that experts hypothesize devastated the Minoan civilization on the nearby island of Crete, further leading some to believe that this may have been the catastrophe which inspired the story.

Locations as wide-ranging as Andalusia, Antarctica, Indonesia, underneath the Bermuda Triangle, and the Caribbean have been proposed as the true site of Atlantis. In the area of the Black Sea at least three locations have been proposed: Bosporus, Sinop and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon). The nearby Sea of Azov was proposed as another site in 2003. In Northern Europe, Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in "Atland", 1672-1702), Ireland, and the North Sea have been proposed (the Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson combines the North Sea and Ireland in a comprehensive hypothesis). Areas in the Pacific and Indian Ocean have also been proposed including Indonesia, Malaysia or both (i.e. Sundaland) and stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have drawn parallels to Atlantis. Even Cuba and the Bahamas have been suggested. Some believe that Atlantis stretched from the tip of Spain to Central America.[citation needed] According to Ignatius L. Donnelly in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, there is a connection between Atlantis and Aztlan (the ancestral home of the Aztecs). He claims that the Aztecs pointed east to the Caribbean as the former location of Aztlan. Some have considered the Philippines to be the possible site of Atlantis, and proposed that the islands were remnants of Atlantis's mountains.

The Canary Islands have also been identified as a possible location, West of the Straits of Gibraltar but in close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Various islands or island groups in the Atlantic were also identified as possible locations, notably the Azores (Mid-Atlantic islands which are a territory of Portugal), and even several Caribbean islands.The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar would coincide with some elements of Plato's account, matching both the location and the date of submersion given in the Critias. Popular culture unceasingly places Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean and perpetuates the original Platonic ideal.

Answer 2

It probably never existed. That's why it has never been found.
I find it difficult to believe that a city could exist in the Atlantic, it would have to be surrounded by a large civilization and large Island to survive. If so, these would have been found by now, particularly with the advances in tectonic science and detection. The most likely scenario is that a real city was destroyed completely by natural causes, and stories of its demise were distorted and added to over the years, until the truth was completely lost. The previously mentioned Island of Santorini/ Thera, for instance.

Answer 3

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

The prevailing theories about Atlantis are:

o It's Fiction
o It's an exaggeration based on the fall of the Minoan civilization and the destruction of the island Thera
o It was Real

I opt for the second....

Answer 4

Very true, if it were discovered it would no longer be lost. There is speculation that it is in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, hence its name. Others speculate it was in Santorini, or Thera, one of the islands in Greece most of which went underwater in a big tsunami earhquake around 5000BC that also decimated Crete.

Answer 5

Under New York City !!!!

Answer 6

I'm going to assume it's somewhere under the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 7

Bimini, the Azores,

Read Edgar Cayce

Answer 8

Lost, that's it is called the lost city, once found it will be called the found city.

Answer 9

Lost somewhere in the Mediterrean Sea, I think

Answer 10

I tend to believe that it's actually the city of Enoch.