Atlantis?

[Little Lady]

Has anyone else heard of such a place?

I have heard a few stories all may be rubbish or may be not, most of you will probably say they are. Apparently it was a country between britain and america thousands of years ago in a different era, something huge happened and wiped the world out for several hundred years till life found a way supposedly. They were well above our technology of today and they were doing cloning etc and also using chips in womens wombs to control births...

Half man half beast things too etc this is why i wonder where our ideas came from but i think it all maybe rubbish, i guess there is not enough proof.

[jake-the-peg]

Just a bit!

I tried Atlantis in Google and it returned ten and a half million hits. Quite a bit of reading, mostly rubbish.

I think Atlantis first crops up in a book by Plato and got seized upon by every fruitcake out there.

Some people think Plato got the story from Santorini ( http://www.in2greece.com/english/places/summer/islands/santorini.htm ) which was a greek Island totaly destroyed by an erruption which probably wiped out the Minoan civilisation on Crete.

   

[Xollob]

Got this from Wikipedia (always a good place to start looking):

"Atlantis was a legendary ancient culture and island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said that it was destroyed by a natural disaster (possibly an earthquake or tsunami) about 9,000 years before his own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere near Hyperborea, which is presumed to be somewhere near Iceland, though some think its location would have been more suitable in one of the cradles of civilization, the Mediterranean Sea."

This goes into more detail than you probably ever need, and also provides a lot of external links.

[rooftrouser]

While agreeing with the fruitcake comment as far as the wilder Atlantis claims are concerned, there have been some interesting archaeological finds with claims to match early descriptions of it. One of the more recent finds claiming a close match to Plato's description is in the eastern Mediterranean/Crete area and may relate to In a Pickle's Santorini comments. There is a site here: www.discoveryofatlantis.com which is publicising a book on the find but may be of interest.

[richb14]

If Atlantis did exist it existed just off Porturgal! Ever played Age of Mythology:The Titains, its great at clearing up disputes with ledgends and mythology. Rich

[scubadiver]

The other place that makes a claim to be the site of Atlantis is Malta.

Cartainly, there are some of the earliest settlement sites in Europe on the island - Hagar Qim, Mnajra etc, but what has got people wondering is that some of the underwater topography appears to be man made. I have certainly seen a man made arch underwater just off Qwara Point and also what looked suspiciously like cart ruts off Zonqor Point. These look similar to the prehistoric cart ruts at "Clapham Junction" on the island.

There have been thoughts that the water level may have been considerably lower at one point, making settlements that are now underwater a distinct possiblility.

[CT]

According to Stargate, it's at the other end of an artificial wormhole on a planet in nearby galaxy and it was created by 'the Ancients' thousands of years ago ;o)

[chin85]

Read Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Donelly if you really want to know about Atlantis.

[Pwudder]

I saw a report last week by an American professor, who claims that Tampa(in Florida) was the site of Atlantis!!