who here believes in the city of Atlantis and if so...?

Question

where do you think it was??...never mind history or wikipedia etc..where do YOU think it was or is??

i think we all know it's somewhere under the atlantic lol!..buwhere exactly..

Answer 1

halfway between europe and america, closer to bermuda.
not sure if i blv. it existed, but would love to be the one who locates it, if it existed.

Answer 2

For what that's properly worth, i think Atlantis existed. in case you will excuse the expression, the smoke ought to not have lasted this long with out the hearth having been someplace, at a while. this is complicated to assert the place Atlantis exchange into precisely, yet i might recommend someplace interior the Mediterranean the place a remnant land mass could proceed to be. possibilities are high Atlantis vanished interior the flood. it ought to not have been an island the two, besides the shown fact that this is remnants may well be islands. attempt Greece as a obtainable commencing component. Plato seems to have huge-unfold something of the difficulty.

Answer 3

It's described as being outside of the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic, with hot springs and a volcano, or at least geologically active. The only place I think could fit this is the Azores. If you go back to the ice age, the sea level would have been about 125m lower, and it's not impossible the micro plate (tectonic) it sits on has subsided to further lower it. There could have been a pretty big land mass there, there was at least a big mountainous island.

Also, the mountains are described as being carved out to form a palace, and some of the Azores peaks are riddled with lava tube caves. Heaven only knows what we'd find if we started digging about under the water.

When the Portuguese first arrived there, the were no people and no native Fauna there. Some thing wiped out every animal on all of those islands.

Answer 4

Oh good grief. There is NO FREAKIN' ISLAND sunk in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. We've done sonar imaging of the bottom of the ocean; there's no sunken continent there. Not even a little island. There's a great enormous underwater mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Rift, where new ocean floor is being formed as the plates diverge.

Atlantis was a good yarn spun by Plato in his works Timaeus and Critias. He claims that Atlantis was a real place, and perhaps that's what he really thought, perhaps not. If he did think it was real, it was in all likelihood a greatly exaggerated tale of some little island in the Mediterranean that was blown to bits by a volcanic eruption waaaay back in the day, like Thera.

After all, Plato heard about Atlantis from Critias the Younger, who heard about it from Critias the Elder, who heard about it from Dropides, who heard about it from Solon, who heard about it from Egyptian priests...goodness knows where they got the story from. Do you honestly think that a story transmitted orally that many times is going to survive intact and in its original form? Hardly.

Edit: mad cat: Good grief, not Lemuria again. Lemuria was the name coined by a geologist for a continent that he theorized lay in between Africa and India (yes that's right, no where near California). He was trying to explain lemur fossils that existed in both Africa and India; he thought there must have been some sort of land bridge connecting the two at some point.

Nowadays we have the good ol' theory of plate tectonics to account for disparate fossil finds like this; we need not resort to imaginary continents. That the New Age community has latched onto the idea and converted it wholesale into some ancient advanced civilization is utterly, horribly laughable.

Edit: regarding pb&j's comment about Pangaea: this supercontinent did not exist when the earth "first formed". The earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old; Pangaea existed only about 250 million years ago. Before Pangea there were other supercontinents that formed and broke apart; Pangaea is simply the most recent of them.

Answer 5

I watched a show on the Discovery Channel about Atlantis. There is evidence of a city that is now coverd by water. They showed aerial views and underwater views of roads and foundations and shards of pottery and things like that, that prove that there was a civilization. I can't remember where it was located, but it was not far off the shore. When earth was first created all of the continents formed one massive continent dubbed "Pangea" by geologists. Since the earth's crust is made up of techtonic plates, and those plates shift and move (causing earthquakes and volcano erruptions, tsunami's, etc) "Pangea" seperated, slowly shifted into the different contenents that we know now. All of this shifting however has caused rising and falling of the land all over the world. (This is why we have mountain rages, vallys, deserts, rivers, lakes, etc). If you take that into consideration, then it could be possible for a city to sink into the ocean, thus creating "Atlantis."

It has also been said that this city was a connection between the Ancient Egypt and South America. If the continents were much closer then it may be possible for one to travel from western Africa, to this lost city, and then on to Central and South America. According to some, this "explains" the pyramids in both continents. This is speculation though.

Answer 6

a part of Nikki's answer is correct!! Atlantis was a part of the Mediterranean sea and the other part was in the Atlantic ocean! recently they discovered paved roads near Gibraltar! Aristotle's described in his book! that Atlantis was a passage to the Atlantic and was greater than Africa! the people who lived there where high developed people!blond ! and very strong!! the Bermuda triangle was a part of Atlantis! divers found also paved roads in some parts of the Bermuda triangle. some fisherman saw light coming from the deep of the ocean! true or not! it will be a mystery!

Answer 7

Under the South Pole
Fossils have shown that here was immense tropical growth once,So there was a tropical climate

The Piri Reis maps reveal Antarctica to be a dough nut shaped continent with a huge inland sea
just like the legends of Atlantis ,

And with the poles in another place ,Antarctica would be in the middle of the Atlantic.

And it must be a strong Myth that has popped up all over the world ,not only Homer,and in Greece.

Atl means water and this name is found all around the Atlantic.
just as the name Anunaki is found all over the planet ,

Christian religions appear to have very strong keys in the mental control that disregards and resists anything that could lift the veil of the obscure origins of Man ,especially if it leads to extraterrestrial ,And Atlantis was supposed to be an Alien settlement or Colony .

Ask all the people who say Atlantis is a myth ,if Jesus was also a myth,and watch them jump around ,

There is more evidence of Atlantis .
Hidden with in ancient cultures ,such as unexplained knowledge of astrology and science.What kind of supposedly primitive people made a cosmic computer out of giant stones like Stonehenge,or the pyramid of Giza both said to be as old as Atlantis,

Note they just found some footprints in Italy that are 350.000 years old .that was the time of myths

Answer 8

The ancient Greeks called the people who lived around Mount Altas in North-West Africa, Atlanteans.

Plato's mythical country seems to be the same, since one of the cities is Gadeiros (the ancient name for Gibralta).

Some ancient geographers called Mauretania (N.W. Africa), i.e. the region around Mount Atlas an island -- this was because the area was believed to be separated from the other continents by a river, which rose directly from the southern ocean.

The Greek writer Diodorus Siculus says the Amazons of Libya, who lived around Lake Tritonis (now in Tunisia) invaded the country of Atlantis which bordered them to the west in the vicinity of the Atlas mountains.

So there does not seem to be any great mystery what Plato was talking about. Since so many other Greek geographers and historians say the Atlanteans are the people of Mauretania. Plato, of course, is speaking of an old civilisation of the region, whose main city was sunk into the sea.

During Plato's own lifetime, the Greek city of Helice suffered an earthquake and sunk into the sea, which probably inspired his description of the fate of Atlantis.

Answer 9

It only existed in the mind of the man who wrote the play.
Plato, pupil of Socrates

Since the story comes from Ancient Greece, it turns around the Aegean Sea ( and NOT in the Atlantic )
Also, due to serious earthquakes in the region, this was used as the ending of the story.

The people who rediscovered the script, toke it for granted and started the believe/legend of a real world.

Answer 10

Atlantis is 1st mentioned in literature by Plato. It is not clear if it was a fictional place or the stuff of legend at the time.
There were civilisations in that area that may have been depleted by volcanic activity, etc.
So it could have been one place or, more likely as with many legends, a collective of stories of villages, towns,etc. that disappeared through natural causes over a long period of time.

Answer 11

True believer in Atlantis-Lots of legend behind this, to much to list here-dont feel like typing that much-but probably in the atlantic...Or was it the Pacific-hell, I dont know-just believe...