The lost city of Atlantis?

Question

Was the lost city of Atlantis real? Is there enough evidence that it actually existed? If so then how did it come about its fate, I heard that they invented the atom bomb seeing as they were an extremely advanced society, or is it all just a myth? If it is a myth, then why? It would be amazing to know that it actually existed once and it was true! Anyone have any ideas about Atlantis? Thankyou for your time.

Oh and was Atlantis founded by Aliens?

Answer 1

The Atlantis 'myth' was started by the Greek Philosopher Plato.

He gives a very specific date of when Atlantis was swallowed by the sea in one day and one night (about 7800BC).

Here the thing, at the end of the last Ice Age, although the ice did melt gradually, it was dammed up by glaciers etc, and was 'unleashed' on 3 separate occasions that scientists now know as superfloods.

One of those 3 floods was within 100 years of 7800 bc... Thats a remarkable coincidence for Plato to pluck that particular number out of thin air?

Humans also have a 'memory' of these flood incidents. Why does every single culture have a flood myth. Noah's ark is probably the most famous, Indians have Manu and there are many many more.

So, I believe that Plato based his Atlantis story on a real event.

As to the supposed location, where his particular Atlantis is, I have no idea.

What I do know, is that there are dozens of submerged places around the world that would have been ABOVE sea level at the time of the last super flood, and in one catastrohpic incident, would have ended up sometimes as much as 30 metres underwater.

They have found evidence of cities several kilometres off the coast of India.

The Maldives used to be a massive mountainous range.

Sri Lanka used to be connected to India until about 8000 years ago.

Malta used to be connected to Sicily and was approximately 10 times bigger that it is now.

In the Carribean, many of the islands were much much bigger.

They recently found the remains of a city 700m below sea level just off Cuba!

Maps exist from around Colombus's time that show the coastline of Antarctica which has been under ice for 10,000 years.

Other ancient maps show an island of the west coast of Ireland and satellites confirm that there is a relatively shallow bank there, same size and dimensions.

All of this is evidence as to land being submerged within the memory of humans, and why cant humans have been living there at the time?

None of these locations may be the Atlantis of modern myth but also, what if there was a sophisticated society living in one or some or all of these places?

They would have been wiped out pretty much instantly and also the ramifications for all humans at that time would have been huge, but memories in the form of stories would have survived.

Answer 2

The Atlantis of Airships and Crystals is a modern concept. It developed as concepts like hygiene and bloodflow were being rediscovered. To Medieval Monks, Francis Bacon and others, Atlantis was certainly an extremely advanced society. So was Athens and Rome was really unimaginable (look at old tapestries for Images of Rome).

Ignatius Donnelly was the one who popularized this concept of a Scientific Atlantis. Plato's Atlantis began as holy, and degenerated under its material wealth until it was nothing more than a bully -- but still one only the Brave Athenians could cope with. How they could have coped with lasers and airships when they themselves were described as having been driven back to the edge of barbarism is beyond me.

There really is no unambiguous evidence either way, but evidence that Plato did not just make it up is out there, so in that sense it is real, while evidence of superscience and aliens begins in the nineteenth century and is most likely an artifact of that time.

Answer 3

I don't believe in firm answers but after 50+ years I have to say I don't believe in an Atlantis of pyramids and roads and power crystals. Plato was describing a civilization which began with morally advanced individuals. They were not so technologically advanced they couldn't be beaten by Contemporary Athenians, and in fact the story was told to Solon because the Priests were so grateful to Athens for what that victory meant to them. Ignatius Donnelly and Lewis Spence produced some interesting stories about the Mother Civilization of Atlantis idea, but they were precisely not convincing to me because they were so time-bound and hermetic. Their ideas of what was advanced were not Plato's at all and neither were many of their other definitions. I've always had a hard time relating the two and my problems have grown, since I've entered my dotage. The pilots sightings are too easily explainable: Ice is made up of crystals and lines, possibly forming shapes, and the "artifacts" can very easily be a direct result of imperfections in the crystalline structure of the glaciers. If there is going to be evidence, it has to come from somewhere else. I will say I believe in Atlantis. Plato said it was real and who am I to argue with a Champion Olympic Wrestler? But I don't believe in this modern idea of it anymore.

Answer 4

I see someone says Atlantis fell in 7800 BC. That is wrong. plato said it was 9000 years before Solon or about 14,000 BC. When I was age 9, I read Plato and Aristotle. The account of Atlantis comes only from 3 of Plato's "Dialogues". He said Egyptians priests told Solon about it. There is no record of such a tale in Egyptian literature. Aristotle said Plato invented the whole place, as he did his ideal "Republic". Some later writers invented more fiction about Atlantis. Plato was trying to teach a lesson by inventing Atlantis, but later charlatans were only conning people by addding to the tale.

Answer 5

THEORIES - CHANNELERS
Plato - Timaeus and Critias - Atlas - Pillars of Hercules
Pliny the Elder
Edgar Cayce
Gordon-Michael Scallion
Frank Alper
Francis Bacon - The New Atlantis
Mesoamerican Scholars
Helena Blavatsky
Rudolf Steiner
Aleister Crowley
Jane Roberts

Link below

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

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 6

I don't think that Atlantis has ever been PROVEN to exist but, I have heard that most of the worlds oldest civilizations have references in their histories, religions, and mythologies of "great floods" and "lost" civilizations that sank into the sea or were lost in other ways. The far east has the island of Mu for example. There are quite a few books on the subject, but the search is considered a pseudo-science/ Bigfoot hunting kind of deal so take everything you read with a grain of salt.

Answer 7

I guess it's just the weight of evidence to combat the myth of atlantis, think about it, it could be true and it's not impossible. Only 30% of the oceans mass has been explored. So... it could be true. And about aliens, if there were such thing, the government would certainly be behind it.

Answer 8

well first of all, its supposedly a country, a large island, in folklore, not a city, and no one has ever scientifically proven its existence, but there is alot of theories I listen to that speaks of its probabilities of existence. I don't close my mind to anything mysterious, just because the science community says it isnt real.Where is the proof that it didnt exist, any more than the proof that it did. Works both ways people!

Answer 9

the story of Atlantis is a legend but it could be based on a real place that got destroyed and survivors emigrated to a new place.
the first place we find greeks goes from being huts to citadels in a hundred years. many believe they came from somewhere else that was destroyed. and then they settled in a new place that they were able to develop quickly.

Answer 10

So far there is no proof it ever was a real place.