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It seems that an American research team, led by Richard Freund, might possibly have found the lost metropolis Atlantis, legendary city believed drowned by a giant tsunami, ages past, in the southern Spanish mud flats near to Gibraltar.

Even though the site is actually miles inland, the tidal wave in question must have been far more destructive even than that which devastated Japan early in 2011. Freund, professor at Hartford University has been leading this research for over two years now, searching for the lost city.

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He and his team carefully examined satellite images of what appeared to be a sunken city close to Cadiz, Spain, buried in the enormous Dona Ana Park marshlands, an ancient, multi-ringed construction of immense proportions. They, throughout the recent past, combined digital mapping, deep-ground radar and underwater technologies to get a clearer picture of the area in question.

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There is, it appears, a strange series of memorial cities in central Spain that would appear to have been constructed in the Atlantis style, and the team speculated that survivors of the disaster may have been the builders.  It was over 2,500 years ago that Plato described Atlantis as an island located in front of the Pillars of Hercules- of course now known as the Straits of Gibraltar.

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His detailed account served as a map for many researchers, contending that likely sites for the city might be Santorini, in Greece or Sardinia, off the Italian coast, but tsunami activity off Spain is not unknown, Lisbon destroyed by a 100ft tidal wave in 1755. The writings of the Greek philosopher date from around 360BC, and he stated that the fabled city had disappeared in just 24 hours.

Further excavations are now planned, excitement high at the mouth-watering possibilities to be uncovered, if indeed this is the fabled lost city, but it would be inadvisable to get too worked up too soon, because it may be something else altogether, but you cannot help smiling at the thought of what wondrous artifacts lie in wait.

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For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, ‘the pillars of Heracles,’ there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent.

Plato, Timaeus 24e–25a

But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down.

Plato, Timaeus 25c–d

In Plato’sTimaeus and Critiashe mentions the island city of Atlantis that was of great wealth and technological ability and it disappeared under the waves one fateful day. Atlantis, an apparent place of myth, is not the only ancient community to disappear in a night. One winter night in 373 BC, the cities of Helike and Boura, in the south of Greece in the Peloponnese, were swallowed by an earthquake. Helike, which was one of the main cult centre of the god Poseidon, was submerged by the Gulf of Corinth.  The eruption of Thera (Santorini) in the 2nd millenium BC decimated the advanced Minoan cultures at Akrotiri, Santorini, and on Crete.  These places are in the Mediterranean; Plato clearly says that Atlantis lies outside the Pillars of Heracles in the waters of the Atlantic. It is generally accepted that the northern pillar is the Rock of Gibraltar. The southern pillar is probably Jebel Musa in Morocco. Plato said Atlantis was an island situated in front of the straits by the Pillars of Hercules and that “in a single day and night… disappeared into the depths of the sea” allegedly around 9000 BC.

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Recently, a team of researchers from Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific study began to examine a marshy area of the Doñana National Park, in Andalusia in southern Spain, to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement that they believed could help pinpoint Tartessos. The current thinking is that the modern city of Huelva was the ancient Tartessos. The Greek scholars Aristotle and Pausanias said that Tartessos was a river in Spain that flowed from the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules and at that area there was a city of the same name. It is their theory that Tartessos, a civilisation in southern Iberia, may have had its capital in the heart of the park. The marshland is close to the mouth of the Guadalquivir River and on the opposite side of the river evidence of Tartessian culture has been excavated. Aerial photos of the area are said to show the existence of large circular and rectangular forms. They also used deep-ground radar, digital mapping and underwater photography to survey the sites. Tartessos existed between the 11th and 7th centuries BC in southern Spain and became rich trading gold and silver from local mines. The city and civilisation disappear from records and society by about 500 BC.  It was ruled by kings and had its own, possibly Celtic, culture and language that was claimed by some to be 6000 years old even then.

The area has been pinpointed by others as the site for Atlantis. Plato wrote that Atlantis was on an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was surrounded by concentric rings – some consisting of earth and others of water. Dr. Rainer Kuehne, who has been seeking the lost legendary civilisation, said in 2004 that Werner Wickboldt’s aerial photos show concentric circles and two large structures in Doñana National Park. He feels the two “structures” buried under the mudflats of the park are the Atlantean temple to Poseidon and temple to Poseidon and Cleito, described by Plato. Kuehne also opines that Plato, who got his tale, at least in part from Egyptian sources, may have confused the words for island and coast. Atlantis, he theorises, is on a coastline not an island and therefore would have the plain and mountains nearby that Plato claims. Atlantis was also noted for its metalworking and this area in Spain is rich in copper, tin and other metals.

Professor Richard Freund, of the University of Hartford, thinks that this potential archaeological site in Doñana National Park is not only Tartessos but also Atlantis. In his opinion, Atlantis/Tartessos was annihilated by a tsunami. He and the Spanish were seen in the National Geographic special, “Finding Atlantis”. I have some queries regarding the programme.

One of the researchers flashes a small roughly made Astarte figurine to the camera saying it is from nearby. To me, with its rodeteor wheel headgear, it looked similar to Our Lady of Elche, an iconic piece of 4th century BC Iberian art from the city of Elche (Elx) on the eastern side of Spain. Elche was a colony founded by the Greeks of Helike and taken over by people from Carthage (a Phoenician colony). Was the votive made there or brought in as a consequence of trade between the Tartessians and the Phoenicians of Gadir from 800s BC onwards?  The Tartessians were trading partners of the Phoenicians who had a colony nearby in Gadir (now Cadiz).  Has its date been established by thermoluminescence dating; has its clay been sourced? What is its date and does its appearance correspond with other Astarte figurines of a similar date? It also bore some resemblance to small Astarte votive figurines from Israel. All the figurine proves is that it existed due to the co-existence of the Phoenicians.

Yes, according to the resistivity imaging done there is a rectangular-ish structure under the mud in the Doñana National Park. Resistivity testing shows up as dark and light images that indicate large amounts of solid matter underground, like a stone wall, or disturbed earth like a trench. The “rectangle” on the image is quite solid in appearance. But why is it the only “structure”?  As to the concentric circles, there may be something on the south side but without excavation there is no way to be sure. Excavation of the park would not only be prohibitively expensive but also potentially dangerous as the earth deposits over the “structures” may be over 20 feet deep.

I question if all the underwater stones observed in the dive have been worked by man. For example, studies of alleged stone Chinese anchors of California are still somewhat inconclusive and debate meanders on in that case. The theory that successive tsunamis caused the displacement of large rocks along the local coast is entirely plausible.

Freund also mentions the large methane deposits emanating from the park. Obviously, there were large amounts of organic matter there before the mud was deposited by a rather fast event. The trapped organic matter has been decomposing and creating methane, but what the matter originally was can only be speculated. Freund says only a tsunami could have covered the area so quickly and trapped the organic matter of people, flora and fauna, but any type of flooding or relatively quickly build-up of earth could be an answer.

Cancho Roano is accepted as Tartessian site that may have been a palace or a place for ritual. The site, which dates from the 6th century BC until about 370 BC, certainly shows signs of activity linked with religion with definite altars having been excavated. The square building was oriented to the east and surrounded by a moat and defensive walls. Freund theorises that Cancho Rancho is a memorial city – it memorialised the lost Atlantis – hence the moat.  He also says that a petroglyph found on an entry way stele of a man appearing to be guarding something made of concentric circles. Other scholars say the image is a general “warrior and shield”. All over the southwest of Spain are found the images of three concentric circles on stone stele; they are believed to be funerary stele. The circles are thought to represent a shield of wood covered with skin or bronze.

Is Doñana National Park Tartessos – now that is possible but whether it is Atlantis we will never know. If Plato’s timeframe for Atlantis is even somewhat correct, then Atlantis and Tartessos are located a good eight thousand years apart. Mind you, according to Plato, Atlantis had “roofed over docks, which were cut into red, white and black bedrock.” Now that description corresponds with an inland plain in Morocco that the Berbers refer to as the “island of Atlantis”………

Lady of Elche: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dama_de_Elche.jpg

Evidence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_enl_1086300117/html/1.stm

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/kuhne/

http://www.beepworld.de/members/archiv_rainer_kuehne_17/

http://tam.ancient.eu.com/civilizations/tartessos/

For further information:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/finding-atlantis-4982/Overview

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Canadians+part+search+fabled+city+Atlantis/4435954/story.html

http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=32114&pageid=28&pagename=Sci-Tech

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html    

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7019522/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-could-be-buried-in-southern-Spain.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8380621/Where-is-Atlantis.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-swamped-by-tsunami-may-be-found/articleshow/7693772.cms  

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/52902/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365824/Has-real-lost-city-Atlantis-finally–buried-mud-flats-Spain.html    

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Its inhabitants had a far superior technology and culture to that of the contemporaries of his time and was instrumental in the progress of all world cultures. Its location gave them access to cultures as diverse as the Egyptian and Maya were accomplished travelers, with their boats dominate the seas and oceans.

The similarity between architectural structures such as the Mayan and Egyptian pyramids, or the phonetic similarity of some words in cultures separated by water and thousands of miles away should be as supporters of the existence of the island or continent and the influence that Atlanteans (the name that usually refers to the inhabitants of Atlantis) thanks to its advanced technology labeled cultures around the world.
Birth and Fall of Atlantis

The legend of Atlantis from Plato to the 350 BC, which, in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, tells the story of a thriving civilization that lived on an island “beyond the Pillars of Hercules” (the old name Strait Gibraltar).

He claimed to be based on the Greek sage Solon, who 200 years earlier in Egypt said he had heard that an island had been destroyed “west” as a result of a great cataclysm that sank in the waters just a few hours. In about 20 pages describing this flourishing culture, its cities and abundance and also due to an affront to the gods (they were worshipers of Poseidon) were punished and a series of cataclysms were immersed in water.

So far the typical story might seem so commonplace moralist in Greek mythology, but many scholars throughout history have sought its real meaning because in many cultures have similar myths Atlátida those of Plato, as there is some a kind of historical memory or real component of that history and although most of the hypotheses were rejected for lack of evidence or shown to be invalid, it is true that being a legend was widely distributed at such an early age of man survived in different and disparate cultures.

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Location AtlántidaLa romantic image of a fabulous island swallowed by the sea, has meant that its location has been sought since the time of Plato, but nobody is really sure if there are many researchers who sought an undertaking not completely crazy since the end of the Troy of Homer also thought a product of fantasy, until the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered in 1903.

The suggested locations for Atlantis, including several places I will list below some of the most renowned locations:

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The volcanic eruption of Santorini in 1470 a. JC. buried the Minoan colony was established there. With the collapse of the volcanic cone formed cliffs and a bay dotted with islands. Atlantologists Some have noted that red and black of those cliffs under the buildings described by Plato, which can be either the source of this confusion.

Atlantis in America

When he was discovered the new continent emerged as a new theory is logical, could be America the continent described by Plato?, Was it possible that the lands discovered by Columbus were part of the dream island?

The answer seemed to be not as it seemed very unlikely with the technology of the time that Plato recounted boat trips could be made to such a long distance and more when describing fleet of 1200 vessels conquered wherever he went with his troops. One thing at least unusual about this theory is as follows: In a trance session held in 1933, the American psychic Edgar Cayce described in a colorful and fantastic life in this ancient civilization, predicting also that part of it would be found in 1968.

And indeed, one year later than predicted were found in the seabed off the Bahamas apparently certain structures by the human hand. The location of Atlantis in this area had already been proposed by other researchers, which undoubtedly were submitted to the data provided by the Roman geographer Marcelo, the first century BC. According to him, the lost continent would have been composed of seven small and three large islands, most of them of 1,000 stadia in diameter, which is approximately 200 kilometers.

Should we, then, to find the remains of Atlantis in the Caribbean?

The largest of the Antilles, the Spanish, has a size that roughly coincides with that calculated by the wise Marcelo. However, these speculations have little to do with Plato’s description. The rock formations are found experts say only an unusual rock formation and have nothing to do with human hands and even in the case of architectural structures created by man seems very unlikely that they belonged to that told of Atlantis Plato and almost certainly would be part of a megalithic culture still unknown.

In the Atlantic Ocean

The story of Plato spoke of a huge island “beyond the Pillars of Hercules” to assume that this data was found in the Atlantic Ocean for centuries, the researchers placed the item on that site. This theory was totally rejected in 1950 when it was shown plate tectonics and found that there are no traces of any continent existed that the theoretical sumergido.Hasta site showed that it was wrong, researchers such as Ignatius Donnelly, who published his book Atlantis : The Antidiluvian World in 1882, the work would meet more than fifty editions and served as the starting point for many later theories. Donnelly studied the mysteries of different cultures and developed from a hypothesis as mysterious ingredients irresistible: Atlantis was a continent between Europe and America which sank and she even set up a land bridge between both worlds.

The information that would corroborate his theory are: the language of the Aztecs has striking similarities with that of the Egyptians. (This is not true, say the skeptics, the similarity comes from a misinterpretation of the signs of Aztec writing.) The Egyptians were not the only ones who built pyramids, the ancient peoples of Central America also built this type of structure, so there must have been some contact between them. (Nonsense, say critics of Donnelly, a basic geometric shape as any architect can inspire spontaneously, without having to copy anyone.)

Donnelly offered no further evidence of the existence of Atlantis, but as bright as a persuasive synthesis of existing, making use of information from fields as diverse as archeology, oceanography, philology, geology, history, mythology, anthropology, zoology and botany to argue Plato’s story and intend to prove that without a continent that had served as a bridge matches that could not have intended to be.

Atlantis in America

When he was discovered the new continent emerged as a new theory is logical, could be America the continent described by Plato?, Was it possible that the lands discovered by Columbus were part of the dream island? The answer seemed to be not as it seemed very unlikely with the technology of the time that Plato recounted boat trips could be made to such a long distance and more when describing fleet of 1200 vessels conquered wherever he went with his troops.

One thing at least unusual about this theory is as follows: In a trance session held in 1933, the American psychic Edgar Cayce described in a colorful and fantastic life in this ancient civilization, predicting also that part of it would be found in 1968. And indeed, one year later than predicted were found in the seabed off the Bahamas apparently certain structures by the human hand.

The location of Atlantis in this area had already been proposed by other researchers, which undoubtedly were submitted to the data provided by the Roman geographer Marcelo, the first century BC. According to him, the lost continent would have been composed of seven small and three large islands, most of them of 1,000 stadia in diameter, which is approximately 200 kilometers.

Should we, then, to find the remains of Atlantis in the Caribbean? The largest of the Antilles, the Spanish, has a size that roughly coincides with that calculated by the wise Marcelo. However, these speculations have little to do with Plato’s description. The rock formations are found experts say only an unusual rock formation and have nothing to do with human hands and even in the case of architectural structures created by man seems very unlikely that they belonged to that told of Atlantis Plato and almost certainly would be part of a megalithic culture still unknown.

all literature. One major problem has been the long eclipse which Plato’s reputation

as a philosopher and political thinker suffered during the twentieth century. Some

scholars have written about Plato in such vitriolic terms as to test the boundaries of

the term ‘scholarship’. He has been damned for his assumed moral decadence, on

the strength of what he wrote in the Symposium,  even though he argued for

legislation against homosexuality in the Laws; he has been condemned for the

obscurity of his cosmology and for his totalitarian politics, his approach to state

education sounding uncomfortably like the strategy behind the Hitler Youth.

The adoption of the Atlantis allegory by the Nazis seriously damaged Plato’s reputation.

Hitler admired Plato’s cyclical view of history involving periodic catastrophes and

the return of the demi-gods, discussing it frequently with Hermann Rauschning,

who observed, ‘Every German has one foot in Atlantis, where he seeks a better

fatherland and a better patrimony. This double nature of the Germans [to live in

both real and imaginary worlds] is especially noticeable in Hitler and provides the

key to his magic socialism.’

There is also a parallel, ‘alternative’ twentieth-century literature which has sometimes sought to establish the truth of Plato’s story by refuting what has been learnt through the natural sciences, and that too has alienated academics. Few scholars have been prepared to expose themselves to ridicule from their colleagues by discussing the matter, and it is symptomatic of the climate of

opinion in the twentieth century that a young academic who saw a link between the

Minoan civilization and Atlantis at the time of Evans’s Knossos excavation felt that

he had to publish his ideas anonymously.

The story which has produced such extremes of credulity and incredulity was

written down for the first time that we can be certain of between 359 BC, when Plato

returned to Athens from Sicily, and 351 BC, when he died at the age of 81. In a

preamble he claimed the story had been handed down to his narrator, Critias, from

a distinguished ancestor of Critias, the statesman Solon, who heard it in Egypt in

about 590 BC. The Timaeus was written as a sequel to the Republic, and its opening

pages show Socrates asking for a narrative to illustrate the ideal state in action.

Critias’ story about the war between Atlantis and the prehistoric Athenians is

by no means the main part of the Timaeus, a seventy-five-page discourse on

cosmology by the astronomer Timaeus. The discourse throws no light on Atlantis.

At first sight it looks as if Plato realized the usefulness of the story only after

completing the Republic, and slipped it into his next dialogue as an after-thought.

It nevertheless reappears in the Critias (113C–121C), and the short account in the

Timaeus (23D–25D) is really a trailer for that.

The more detailed Critias breaks off at the moment where Zeus is about to

pass judgement on the mortals. Since that moment in the 350s BC, the story of

Atlantis has hovered between fable and folk tale, taken as history by some,

acknowledged as allegory by others. Today some take it literally, others see it

as didactic novella; in the ancient world too opinion was divided. Is the story

true? If so, where was Atlantis? The longer version mentions ‘the extremity of

the island near the Pillars of Heracles’  and ‘the war between the

dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles [Atlanteans] and all that dwelt

within them’. The shorter version is clearer still: ‘in front of the mouth

which [Greeks] call the pillars of Heracles, there was an island larger than Libya and

Asia together’. Plato is evidently describing an island-continent out in

the Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Straits of Gibraltar. There are nevertheless

possibilities other than the obvious one. Although Plato may have placed Atlantis

far to the west in an ocean whose immensity was in his time only just being

recognized, the original of his story, the Atlantis described by Egyptian priests 250

years earlier, was smaller and nearer to home. The term ‘Atlantic’ is misleading; as

late as the first century BC, Diodorus (3. 38) was using it for the Indian Ocean, so it

may be wiser to translate it less precisely as ‘outer’ or ‘distant’ ocean. We cannot

assume ancient authors meant the same as us by either ‘pillars of Heracles’ or

‘Atlantic’.

Both place names and geographical perceptions shift with time, and the world

of fourth-century Athens was already larger than the world of the Egyptian priests

of 600 BC. To the Egyptians, a huge island in the ocean to the west could have been

Sicily or even Crete. To the early Greeks the pillars supporting the corners of the

vault of heaven might be anywhere remote. Even as late as Strabo’s time (3. 5. 5)

opinions differed about the location of the pillars of Heracles; some thought it was

the mountains on each side of the Straits of Gibraltar, others argued it was even

further west. There was even disagreement about whether the pillars were real

pillars, perhaps made of bronze, or mountains. Before the sixth century BC several

mountains on the edges of mainland Greece were seen as supports for the sky.

Amongst others, the two southward-pointing headlands on each side of the Gulf of

Laconia were pillars of Heracles. Then, to the Greeks, a large island with one end

just outside the pillars of Heracles could only have meant Crete. The exotic

civilization of Atlantis could then have been the Minoan civilization, which

threatened the mainland Greek and Anatolian cultures not 9,000 but 900 years

before Solon. Support for a Peloponnesian location for the pillars comes,

unexpectedly, from Egypt. The Medinet Habu texts, dating from 1200 BC, describe

the Sea Peoples invading from islands to the north (possibly the Aegean) ‘from the

pillars of heaven’, by which the Egyptians probably meant that the invaders came

from the end of the world as they knew it.

The power that held sway over all the island and over many other islands also

was the economic and possibly political power of the Minoan civilization, which

was centred in Crete but enmeshed most of the Aegean region and reached out to

trade, among other places, with North Africa (‘Libya’) and Italy (‘Tuscany’). The

island of Crete was not swallowed up by the sea, but perhaps the tradition was a

misremembering of what happened to the Minoan trading empire, which contracted

during the fifteenth century culminating in the fall of the Knossos Labyrinth in 1380

BC. It was as if the invisible network of trading routes and political controls had

unk to the bottom of the Aegean, perhaps in the face of competition from Mycenae,

metaphorically ‘swallowed up by the sea’.

The thesis of this book is that the story is not one piece of identifiable proto-

history but several, and that Plato drew them together because he wanted to weave

them into a parable that commented on the state of the world in his own times. It is

clear from Plato’s other writings that he had mixed motives: he wanted to entertain,

improve and exalt his readers. A distant memory of the Minoan civilization was

available, preserved for his use, as he said, by the seventh-century priests in the

Nile delta. The wealth, orderliness and strangeness of the Minoans are sketched in

for us. Atlantis has often been referred to as a Utopia, a fantastic extension of the

ideal state Plato alluded to in the Republic, but it is really not that. It is the Athenians

who are described in utopian terms. It is they who have relinquished private property

, and have prolific fields and boundless pastures. It is Athens that is the

excellent land with well-tempered seasons. Attica

is the Utopia, not Atlantis, for all its marvels.

The second strand in Plato’s proto-history is hinted at in the words ‘all the

island and over many other islands also’. Atlantis is an archipelago

consisting of one large island and a group of smaller islands: the Aegean islands

controlled by the Cretans in the sixteenth century BC. Such details of the destruction

of Atlantis that Plato gives us speak of a geological cataclysm: earthquakes and

subsidence taking significant parts of Atlantis below the waves. Small-scale gradual

subsidences (and emergences) are common on all the Aegean islands – they tilt as

a result of the ongoing collision between African and European plates – but

something large-scale and sudden is meant. Red, white and black rocks are

mentioned as building materials on Atlantis. Volcanic rocks like these exist on

Santorini, an island that was the scene of a massive, destructive eruption in the

bronze age, about a century before the Minoan civilization collapsed.

This story will continue………

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Archaeologists have discovered the continent disappeared. “Researchers say they have found ruins of the city, somewhere in southern Spain. The discovery is remarkable, scientists believe, not 100% confirmed yet whether it is or not Atlantis.

“ This is the power of the tsunami , “says the head of researchers Richard Freund, quoted by Reuters .After two years of hard exploration, a fortress-city, multi-ring shaped, built and disappeared thousands of years ago was discovered. Archaeologists who found him put his hand on fire it’s Atlantis – the island disappeared.

“ It’s so hard to understand how a seismic wave on the planet surface to remove 100 miles from land. About what we’re talking here – that’s exactly what happened , “says Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, who leads a team true international site in search of Atlantis.

To solve the ancient mystery, the team used satellite photography. So they found what appeared to be a sunken city somewhere in the northern Spanish city of Cadiz. There, buried in the vast marshes of Dona Ana National Park, they believe they have located Alantida.

Freund’s discovery comes after in central Spain have found a number of cities “memorial” very strange, the image built by Atlantis refugees who have managed to save after the disaster, it is believed, by a tsunami, which island would be flooded.

Remarkable discovery was the subject of a documentary, Finding Atlantis, airing Sunday on National Geographic Special , in the U.S. and Britain.

“ We found something that nobody else has ever seen, and this gives us confidence, that makes things make sense , “said Freund.

Plato and legends surrounding Atlantis

Greek philosopher Plato was first told about the mysterious continent of Atlantis. In two of his dialogues he says the following: Atlantis was an island larger than Libya and Asia put together and they are beyond the columns of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar probably).

Six thousand years before Solon (640-558 i.Hr), Atlantis was a powerful kingdom evolved a civilization and a political ideal. Because of decay and desire to conquer, have raised the ire of the gods and the Atlanteans Atlantis was submerged under water. Plato said he had heard the story from Critias, which in turn had heard from his grandfather.

Another story says that the civilization of Atlantis was formed over 22,000 years ago. It was a very rich civilization, composed of people who had magical powers, they used to do things both good and bad.

Tsunami in the region have been reported in historical documents for centuries, historians say. One of the biggest was how a block of 10 floors and devastated Lisbon in November 1755.

Debate about the existence of Atlantis takes, on the other hand, hundreds of years.

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To solve the ancient mystery, the team used a satellite photo of an alleged sunken city to find the site just north of Cadiz. There, buried in the marshes of Doñana National Park, believe it stood the ancient city of Atlantis, consisting of several rings.

Throughout the years 2009 and 2010, the team of archaeologists and geologists used a combination of soil depth radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to inspect the site.

The discovery of Freund within Spain of a bizarre series of “city monument, built in the image of Atlantis by refugees after the likely destruction of the city by a tsunami, researchers gave added evidence, he said. Atlantis residents that perished in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities, he added.

The team’s findings were released Sunday in the documentary “Searching for Atlantis”, a special National Geographic chain.

While it is difficult to ascertain the location of Atlantis was in Spain, Freund said the “spin” of their work was to find ruins of cities like the one that was buried in the marshes on the southern coast of Spain. “We found something that nobody else has seen before, which lends credibility, especially for archeology,” said Freund.

“LOCATED IN THE STRAIT OF COLUMNS OF HERCULES”

The Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis dates back some 2,600 years ago, and described it as “an island opposite the strait known as the Pillars of Hercules, the Straits of Gibraltar today. Using the detailed reference to Plato’s Atlantis like a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and the best possible sites for the city.

Tsunamis in the region have been documented for centuries, says Freund. One of the biggest was a 10-story high wave that hit Lisbon in November 1755.

The debate over whether Atlantis really existed has lasted thousands of years. The ‘Dialogues’ of Plato about 360 BC are the only known historical source of information about the emblematic city. Plato said the island called Atlantis “in a single day and night … disappeared in the depths of the sea.”

Experts plan new excavations at the site where they believe is the Atlantis and the mysterious “city” about 250 miles inland from Spain to study more closely the geological formations and to date the remains.

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“This is the power of the tsunami,” said lead researcher Richard Freund told Reuters. According to Freund, who is hard to believe that the lost city of Atlantis is now within 60 miles of the coast.

Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, revealed, to solve the mystery of the existence of Atlantis, the team used satellite images and the suspect had found the site in northern Cardiz, Spain. Buried in the extensive marshes in the area of ​​Dona Ana Park, who showed signs of the existence of Atlantis.

“We found something that is not obtained by others previously. reliable findings, especially for archeology. The discovery of a very sensible, ’said Freund.

Greek philosopher Plato wrote of Atlantis about 2,600 years ago. He described it as an island located in the straits called the Pillars of Hercules – the Strait of Gibraltar, known in antiquity. Using a full report on Atlantis Plato as a map, the search focused on the Mediterranean region.

While the tsunami in the region has been documented for centuries. Freund said one of the largest tidal wave which hit Lisbon, Portugal, in November 1755.

Atlantis – Donovan

In more recent times, archaeologists have found much evidence for an Atlantis-type culture, that had some kind of disaster, in many different locations. Most of these such finds do not fit Plato’s description of Atlantis at all but some of them do have similarities. It could be that Plato got his geography wrong.

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Some researchers are now under the impression that Plato was out by quite a bit and that the real Atlantis was the Minoan civilisation of Crete. The volcanic island of Thera (now known as Santorini) exploded around 1600BC. It caused a tsunami that was estimated to be around 90 metres high. It engulfed the nearby Crete, killing its inhabitants. Another researcher, Russian, Viatcheslav Koudriavtsev, claims that Atlantis was actually even further north than that. He is under the impression that it was actually somewhere just off the coast of Cornwall, England. Of course, there is always the chance that Plato had got the geography correct in the first place.

Much evidence has been uncovered that backs up the original setting where Plato thought Atlantis was. In 1996, some stones were uncovered on the sea bed close to the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. It appeared that these stones could have been man-made. Testing on them revealed that they were ancient. The connection between Bimini and Atlantis had first been mooted about in 1968 after a local diver had made an odd discovery off the north-west coast. One day while diving he discovered what looked like a ‘road’ of closely-packed stones under the sea.

Seven years after that, man-made stones were found at the same location; they had what was described as a complicated tongue and groove joint system. Marble pillars were also discovered at the site. Nothing of the like had ever been seen in the Bahamas before. Tests, ran by the UK Building Research Establishment in 1996,  found tiny amounts of gold through the samples they had taken. Perhaps they had uncovered Atlantis after-all.

Alas, there is always the other side of the coin to look at. Sceptics have long since argued that there is a chance that the pillars were in fact nothing more than decorations that were on there way to America to some rich plantation owner who could afford to have their whims carried out and carried over oceans. They claim that the pillars got lost at sea, on the way to America, in shipwrecks. Tests have been ran on such pillars and evidence was found of a ‘cement-clinker’. This suggest that it was made before the modern ‘Portland cement’ process was invented in the 1820’s. Of course, there is still a huge difference in something made before 1820 and something that would have been made a couple of thousand years earlier.

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Perhaps the real truth of Atlantis will never become discovered. Perhaps because it never existed in the first place. As long as some are willing to believe though, some will keep searching for the lost city of Atlantis.

Black Stone

Islam’s most sacred artifact, which, according to tradition, was the stone given by the angel Gabriel to Ishmael, the legendary founder of the Arab race. Known as “al-Hajar-ul-Aswad” in Arabic, it was built into the one of the outside corner of Kaaba, a pilgrimage shrine located within the courtyard of the massive “Masjid al-Haram,” the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During the 10th century, it was taken away and shattered by an Iraqi sect of Qarmatians but was later recovered. The pieces are preserved in pitch and held together by silver wires.

Blarney Stone

A limestone situated high up on the parapet of the Blarney castle near Cork, Ireland. It was given by Robert the Bruce to Cormac McCarthy in 1314 in exchange for his support in the Battle of Bannockburn. According to legend, when this particular limestone is kissed, it will endow its kisser with the gift of persuasive eloquence. Yuck! Imagine kissing an object that has had people’s lips all over it for over 500 years.

Newspaper Rock

A flat sandstone cliff featuring one of the world’s largest known collections of petroglyphs, around two hundred square feet in area. Located in Moab, Utah, United States, this historic monument is believed to have been carved by several Native American cultures between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago.

Rock of Gibraltar

Considered as one of the Pillars of Hercules, this monolithic Jurassic limestone is situated on the south end of Europe of the Iberian Peninsula, lying at the junction of the Mediterranean and the Altantic. Also known as Mons Calpe, it has been used as a complex military fortification that spans over one thousand years of Moorish, Spanish and British history.

Ayers Rock

An enormous sandstone formation that stands 348 meters high, dominating the broad desert plains in central Australia of the Northern Territory, 400 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs. Also known as Uluru, the geological marvel is Australia’s most recognizable natural icon and holds great religious and cultural significance to the Aboriginal people of the area.

Rosetta Stone

(At the British Museum)

A black basalt stone, which discovery in the Egyptian village of Rashid somehow paved the way to the modern understanding of the once forgotten language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. It has been displayed in the British Museum in London since 1802, and contains three distinct bands of engraved inscription: hieroglyphics, demotic and ancient Greek.

Pantuo Rock

Situated in Zhejiang province atop the island mountain of Putuo, one of four sacred Buddhist site in China, is this rock that has its name in Chinese characters (literally “a huge stone on a mountain”) carved on it by a general from Ming Dynasty. It seems to be standing on top of another rock by the smallest contact point and very much likely to fall but has been firmly in place for millenia.

Stonehenge

Britain’s most famous prehistoric site that was erected using sarsens arranged in circles and has been standing in vigil on the Salisbury Plain near Amesbury for over five thousand years. How and why this megalithic monument was constructed has remained a mystery but theories abound that it was built by extra-terrestrials or the Druids, and that it was used for burial rituals or as an astronomical observatory.

Dome of the Rock

The structure sitting atop a plot of elevated platform in Jerusalem Israel identified by the Jews and Christians as the “Temple Mount”, and by the Muslims as “Haram al-Sharif” (”Noble Sanctuary” in Arabic). Inside this Islamic Shrine resides a rock in its center, on which Muslims believe was where Mohammed began his ascent to heaven, while Jews believe was where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac.

Tarpeian Rock

The steep cliff used by the ancient Romans as an execution site from which criminals and traitors were thrown to their deaths. Lying south of the Capitoline Hill overlooking the Forum in Rome, it was named after a vestal virgin, who betrayed Rome to the Sabines in exchange for their gold bracelets but was instead crushed to death with their shields in expression of disgust for her actions.

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