Will We Ever Find Atlantis?

Answer 1

There are a few ways to answer that:

1- Atlantis was a city that sunk under the rising seas> which might mean that it is still underwater - much in the same way as Alexandria.

2- the myth actually refers to the lose of contact between peoples as a result of rising sea levels or a natural disaster that resulted in water breaking land contact.

In either case there are two possiblities - 1 we have already "re-discovered" Atlantis or we have not yet found it under the ocean.

I personally think that the potentials are as follows:

Britain - during the later ice age it would've been connected by land to Europe's mainland.

The America's - the land bridge from Eurasia to the America's would've been lost and may have been interpreted as "sinking it"

Mediterranian Islands - sea levels would've increased as a result of the melting ice caps and that would've caused coastal linkages to have declined into sea deep chasm's.

in any case we will never truely know...

Answer 2

We already have. There are two extremely likely canidates, one is a volcanic island with a nearly full circle of above water crater walls with an island in the center. The islands was bigger before the volcano erupted, and once had a large Greek harbor in it. It is believed that the island ringed by alternating water, land and water was the inspiration of the story about Atlantis. The island is called Santorini I think.

The other option is a city, on the Greek mainland I think, which sunk in an earthquake and was flooded by an influx of sea water before slowly dropping sea levels turned it into a bog. This event happened within Plato's lifetime. This probibly led him to change the name of the city when he wrote about "Atlantis", and the destruction of this powerful city was a likely inspiration.

The time difference between the Santorini eruptions and the time Plato gives for Atlantis' destruction is probibly the result of translation confusion or alteration of the facts when and if the story got to Plato as he claimed it did. Egyptians and Greeks had different clanders and ways of calculating time. Both ways tended to be wildely inaacurate and sometimes were basically fudged. As best we can tell 9,000+ years ago, 7,000 BC predates civiliation as most historians define it.

Don't use the modern day "pillars of Hercules" as the ones PLato mentioned. Just because we call them that doesn't mean we are talking abotu the same Pillars of Hercules that Plato and his contemporaries knew. For all we know it could have been some rocky island formation in the Agean. The Helladic Greeks didn't even have ships capable of sojourning through the open ocean beyond the modern day Pillars of Hercules without putting the sailors at grave risk. The North Atlantic is far rougher than the Mediterainian.

There is another theory, one based on a blip found during a sonar scan south of modern day Turkey. There is something, for all we know its a big rock, potruding up through the mud. This area was possibly above water during the last ice age, and would fit fairly well with PLato's description.

Many people who describe Atlantis are simply describing their own fantasy land. They don't even attempt to descirbe something historical feasible. Plato doesn't give the Atlantians submarines, planes, power crystals or alien contact and ancestory. He describes them as an advanced Bronze Age culture, something most of us would probibly consider a third world nation or maybe worse. Much of the glory of Greece wouldn't arise until much later than the date of PLato's Atlantis, or the one for Santorini or the the one for desturction in PLato's life time.

Answer 3

If Atlantis ever truly existed, most likely we will find some ruins of it at some point, if we haven't already.

I agree with Lips. It is more about whether or not people will agree that we've found Atlantis or call it something else.

I tend to think that if Atlantis ever did exist, it was so long ago, that the ruins we'd find wouldn't have much left, making it very difficult to ever say definitively that "This was Atlantis."

Answer 4

No, because as described by Plato (and everyone who came later), it never existed.

There is a school of thought that believes the Minoan culture may have been a source for the Atlantean myth - this theory is tempting, especially with the destruction and/or downfall of the Minoans with the eruption of Thera, but the idea of Atlantis as an island in the Atlantic that sunk (and the crazy ideas of Donnelly, Cayce, etc.) is pure moonshine.

Answer 5

Shoot, honey, all you gotta do from here's take the 10 East then catch I-40 all the way till yo...oh, sorry there.

Dang! I thought you said Atlanta.
You said Atlantis, though.
Nope, don't know 'bout that then.
Ok. Goodbye for now.
Sorry.

Answer 6

as of present day date no they have not yet they have got here across a number of underwater and evern in line with possibility one in volcano city which does lead human beings to have self assurance that the component of the parable approximately atlantis sinking is an extremely workable theory

Answer 7

I don't understand why people hang on to some myths and drop others outright. I will state that I think that there is some truth in every myth or legend, but that does not mean the whole thing is truth.

Then I don't understand why some people dwell on the myths, like those of the Old Testament, and believe them absolutely true, believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, but when it comes to following all of the laws in the Bible, they pick and choose.

Answer 8

We probably already have - if it ever really existed.

The question should be "Will we ever agree where Atlantis was?"............to which the answer would be "no".