I’ve been researching Atlantis for over 30 years. Much like many others, I haven’t written a book on the subject (yet), I haven’t been on the Discovery Channel, and I have my own idea of what Atlantis was. Much like politics and religion, Atlantis is one of the most contentious topics you will ever encounter. First you have the division between the academics and the non academics. Mention Atlantis in an academic paper and you can kiss your career as an archaeologist or anthropologist goodbye. I’ve contacted several people doing underwater research and at best I got a polite thanks but no thanks. This leaves most of us to our own skills to search in whichever way we are able. Some of us scour old manuscripts, some of us go diving, some of us go digging, and others spend time searching through miles of square miles of satellite imagery. I tend to do a little of each – less the diving part. I haven’t quite gotten over the large fin based creatures that tend to frequent the underwater possible locations.
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The diversity within the Atlantis community of researchers has it’s own set of challenges. If you ask ten people about where they think Atlantis is, and you will get 10 different answers. Ask ten people who are researching Atlantis the same question, and you will get 10 louder answers. I tend to view the whole thing like the story of the blind men describing an elephant (hence the picture). We all are aware of one aspect of the Atlantis story. The problem is that we often think we are seeing the whole picture, when we are really just seeing one aspect. I’m the first to admit that my own view of Atlantis are probably not the complete picture. As such I’m always willing to listen to other ideas. I know they are all different views of the elephant. And much like that example, all of our views of Atlantis probably need to be combined together to reveal the complete picture.
For any of you who would like to to venture out of the forums and put your money where your mouth is, I’d be happy to have you as a guest poster. As long as you have a reasonable theory and something you are willing to share, I’d consider using it. I think the more we share, the closer we get to actually solving the mystery of Atlantis.
It has been said by some researchers that Atlantis was part of east coast of USA.Artifact Proof says not only could Atlantis been apart of Eastern USA but it was from a much older ancient advanced civilization. There has been a discovery in West Virginia that shows absolute overwhelming undeniable artifact PROOF!!! that a ancient advanced civilization has been found.Test prove this civilization created and used metals such as Aluminum, Titanium 1000s of years before modern man. This discovery has been suppressed and covered up by authorities but they continue to search and recover these same artifacts but deny all knowledge.
Considering you need electricity to make usable aluminum and preferably a low oxygen environment to work Titanium I find these two metal particularly interesting. Have you come across any of the glass block roads? I have never actually seen them, but I have heard quite a few stories. Settlers in Texas, Kansas and Colorado hit what appeared to be a road made of glass like blocks while digging cellars in early 1900s. Some of the blocks in Texas were supposedly exposed during some flooding in the 50s and people gathered them to make walkways.
I agree, very much! We should use different theories. But the thing is, no one ever has a final conclusion. But, if we just put the puzzle pieces of Atlantis together, ( metaphorically speaking ) we will find the answer.
Storytellers are very important, and no one will dare to believe it. Well, it’s the only living proof, so instead of being a annoying skeptic, USE IT.
Dear administrator (sorry, I couldn’t find the “about” or “contact” info),
I’m the author of “Sailors of Stonehenge,” a book I recently published with Amazon that explains many aspects of the megalithic phenomenon in connection with the legend of Atlantis, and which I thought would be of your interest.
Do you do book reviews? If so, I’d be pleased to send it to you (or as a pdf file if you prefer so). I’d also be interested in submitting a guest article, as you kindly suggest. Could you send me the details?
Many thanks.
Manuel Vega
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I have been thinking about this for quite some time, and why would you want to find Atlantis. Plato said it was a successful civilization and it thrived, so maybe we search to mold our own economy as a example of Atlantis? Of course, we all know the downfall of Atlantis, but I know our politics and money balance is not going to get any better, president or not. Maybe we should follow the Atlantians example.
Thoughts? Feedback?
Thank you
At the moment I see a war between geology and archaeology. It is a war that geology is winning and archaeology risks becoming obscelete.
Atlantis is a tricky one, because the other problem is our esteemed colleagues keep “losing” evidence or claiming “it never was”. Nevertheless I favour Levashov’s opinion that it is buried under the Arctic circle after a self-initiated dissaster 13.5-14,000BC (his date of 10,500BC is incorrect), resulting in the destruction of Falla (an ice moon that use to revolve this planet every 9 days).
This acted as the “hammer” that created the earth’s surface dispacement and polar shift phenonema, which saw temporate Antartica gradually develop its icepack which has continued to EXPAND to this day. When the earth’s crust dislodged from the centre and “slipped” 180 degrees in 10,400BC it would have caused problems on the surface beyond comprehension. Shake a paperweight and it will give a good idea of those problems.
Assuming the “theory” of inner earth dwellers is correct (and it seems likely given the weight of ‘circumstancial’ evidence), they would have survived better or largely unaffected if they 30 miles or deeper into the earth’s core.
At a glance, without considering the area, the island of SRI LANKA (South of India) seems to be Atlantis.
1) Atlantis is ancient. So, over the years , gradual decrease of overall land area is possible. The present Sri Lanka is very small.
2) Atlantis is presumed to have a central mass of mountains. Sri Lanka also has a central mass of islands.
3) Atlantis, like Sri Lanka exhibits a radial drainage pattern.
4) The northern part , then a joined landmass can now have broken into a peninsular region.
There is definitely an ancient connection with Sri Lanka but I doubt it was Atlantis. There are at least two sunken cities off the coast of India, and Sri Lanka has an apparent sunken bridge that connects it with Indian.
I think this correct Admin. There is also the very interesting underwater city found off Cuba in the early 2000’s. As real history is rather different to proscibed “scientific” myth, evidence seems to point to a civilised world prior to 10,400BC with huge technology centres around what are today known as arctica and antarctica. I believe the philosophy as to what constitutes “society”, “power sharing” mechaniasms and “government” were very different to today’s version.
Evidence is turning up in the most surprising places. I forgot which god the underwater city of Cambay “potentially” hosted, but there was also the bizarre [Russian] new feed that announced the discovery of Zoroastra’s [?] personal Vimana “locked in a time well [stargate?]” in an Afghan cave. A small number of US combatants were allegedly killed in the attemped removal of the Vimana, for that reason alone it is no wonder this discourse has been “forgotten”.
Atlantis was a continent “as large as Libya and Asia together” and opposite the Pillars of Hercules. That can only be one place – South America. The part which sank was a volcanic mountain which was submerged by the rising waters of Lake Poopo, next to the level rectangular plain called the Altiplano in Bolivia, as Plato said, in the centre of the island, next to the sea, midway along its longest side and enclosed by mountains. It is the only region which has all the features Plato described particularly the level rectangular plain and all the metals etc.
See http://www.atlantisbolivia.org for further information.
Like everyone else I am intrigued with the concept of Atlantis. I have also searched for many years but I was wrongly using Plato’s parameters, which I found were exagerrated and geographically wrong.
The clue that unlocked the secret of this place, involved the maps and routes taken by Columbus. He actually accidentally touched down there. However he had the name Fotunate Islands to go by – not Atlantis. History has merged these two.
The circular Islands themselves is located near Cuba, Florida and the Bahamas. They are not large in size but it seems that they were part of a larger land mass encirculating them. It appears either a meteorite hit there or an inundation occurred (or both) in it’s past which created its current features and size.
plato said on one side the pacific and the other side the atlantic past the straight of gibraltar past the pillars of heracles, do any one know the pillars of heracles? i do its norway/sweden Right arm turkey Left arm, you only have to turn the map upside down, and you see al the mythical creatures do not look close but further away and than you can pin point the location its the bearing straight, it sunk becous the water levels have risen and the chain of mountains are now sint lawrence island,seward peninsula,chukchi peninsula, it was there in the middle of it
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Atlantis was a space craft. which land over different palaces on earth and they do some research work over here and when his research complete they left this planet and move away.
(Atlantis) this the name of space craft some kind of abbreviation. i have some abbreviations.
I’m not sure which islands you are referring to, can you post coordinates?
Interesting perspective. I agree that part of the key to finding Atlantis is turning our map reference of the earth upside down. There are numerous large geoglyphs around the world that can only be seen from high altitude that appear to be upside down based on our current map approach. It is also the correct orientation of our planet within the solar system. Our current world map view has more to do with ascribing political importance to the northern hemisphere than anything else.
I’m not sure I ascribe to that theory, but I’m open to almost all perspectives. The name itself, or derivations there of are everywhere so anything is possible.
One final comment on this post.
There is no mystery here. Atlantis used to stretch from the region we call the Arctic down to Asia and Northern Africa (i.e. Northern Hemisphere). There were also some activities on the lands of Southern Africa (plus other submerged by sea). Mu occupied the central equatorial regions between the tropics. They also had a great city on what we call Antarctica today (Rainbow City). This is now occupied by Draco affiliates that are “not of this Earth” (but their stronghold is 20 miles inner Earth).
St Germain’s vision of the comet held in a traction beam was actually the end of the Lumerian civilisation (Mu) 26,000 years ago. It redistributed the Earth waters creating two dents in the now Pacific Ocean and led to the myths about “Islands sinking”.
Atlantis’ demise can be located in the Vedas, Popol Vul et al. After a disastrous attack on the ice moon Falla (which was very close to the Earth and revolved our planet every nine days), they shattered half and the larger chunk created our Arctic circle, freezing Europe in the process. Mammoth’s regularly dug up were “snap frozen”.
This subject does appear on my website. (Check the deep, hidden and real history section). http://ozziethinker.wordpress.com