Atlantis....?

Question

So what are some of your theories..

you know as to location, people and stuff like that

Answer 1

After the Great Flood and the whole Babel situation the people scattered. The landscape of the world is still in a state of flux after the Flood. Sea levels are much lower than today and islands are present that are submerged now. One of these wandering groups from Shinar manages to find the perfect place to live off the coast Spain and Africa. A land mass and a chain of islands that stretch from the eastern Atlantic to Cuba. The wandering people establish a city on one of the islands and name it Atlantis. Over the next hundred or so years the island nation grows in wealth and prosperity trading with other nations as far away as Mohenjo-Daro. The prosperity causes some to decide to rule their neighbors instead of live with them. War erupts. Fleets spread out from Atlantis and conquer nation after nation along the Mediterranean. All the nations are conquered except the Hellenes who would later be called the Greeks. A battle erupts between the Atlanteans and Greeks. While this is going on a meteor crashes on the other side of the world off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. This sets off a chain of natural disasters. Remember the world is still in a state of flux from earlier. The impact causes a tsunami the likes of which no one's seen. It swallows up many of the lower elevation islands in the Carribean. It also starts of a seismic chain reaction that affects the islands in the Atlantic. Earthquakes rock the islands causing great destruction. The main island of Atlantis is hit with a double dose: the tsunami from earlier and the earthquake storm along the Mid-Atlantic island system. The island is swallowed up by the sea never to be seen again. The tsunami wave, initially weak, strengthens after Atlantis sinks and passes through the Strait of Gibraltar. The wave swallows up both the Atlantean and Greek fleets. It also swallows many sections of low-lying areas in the Mediterranean causing smaller islands to appear than before. The survivors manage to tell their versions of what happen to traders who in turn tell it to priests of Egypt who are curious as to what happen to their former conquerors. They send ships to survey the damage and instead of finding a thriving nation of islands they find a boggy area of mud where it use to be. Difficulty in traversing the area keeps the Egyptians and others from reaching the islands on the other side of the Atlantic. As the years pass ocean levels continue to rise to nearly their present levels covering any remains of Atlantis. Memories dim and stories twist a little from the survivors stories. 900 years later (not 9000) Solon is told by the priests of Sais about the destruction of the island of Atlantis. Fast forward to the present day and signs of Atlantis peek out. In Bimini, an Atlantean port dock is discovered even though many think it's a wall. Just recently off the coast of Spain, an anomaly is found that looks like a temple under water. Well I think I did enough thinking, good night.

Answer 2

THERA-
a devastating volcanic eruption (c.1645 B.C.) buried the island's settlements and threw massive amounts of dust into the earth's atmosphere, affecting the weather worldwide. It was resettled and later occupied (9th cent. B.C.) by the Dorians. In 631 B.C. colonists from the island founded Cyrene in N Africa.

Excavations in the The Mediterranean show that ash from the ancient eruption spread over the entire worlds. It is theorized by some experts that the effects of the eruption were the catalyst for the collapse of Minoan civilization in the subsequent two centuries. Excavations at a Minoan site on Thíra have uncovered many well-preserved frescoes. Some controversial theories have equated ancient Thera with Atlantis.

THERA was under control of Phoenicians in earlier times, also known as Santorini and thira it was probably the site of a branch of Minoan civilization

Answer 3

I really don't think it was in the Atlantic, it would more likely be in the Mediterranean, people? That is hard to say, though they might have been influenced by the Greeks, though it is really hard to say much else because it was far before Plato's time and he was just passing along what he had overheard from his elders.

Answer 4

I don't really know enough about it to have an opinion, but Stephen L. Lawhead's book "Taliesin" has some interesting theories on the subject.

Answer 5

The atlantains were most probably the Phoenicians. The country was most probably the Geek island on which the volcano exploded.

Answer 6

I don't know but maybe it's a theory.There probably isn't anyway or if there is it probably means something or people once lived there but the population died out.