They've found the city of ATLANTIS!! WOW!!

Chaz Spaz · Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 67

That's really interesting. If it was Atlantis, it would be hard to prove (I guess that's why it's a theory).

bbchris

Didn't they have some sort of 'liquid nectar' in Atlantis? Does that mean it's Guiness??? :laugh

bbchris

story.news.yahoo.com/news...tlantis_dc

Who would have thought?

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By Kevin Smith

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Atlantis, the legendary island nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.

Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed some 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a cataclysmic natural disaster and sank beneath the waves.

Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements, geography, and landscape of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly.

"I am amazed no one has come up with this before, it's incredible," he told Reuters.

"Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide, and widest across the middle. They both have a central plain surrounded by mountains.

"I've looked at geographical data from the rest of the world and of the 50 largest islands there is only one that has a plain in the middle -- Ireland."

Erlingsson believes the idea that Atlantis sank came from the fate of Dogger Bank, an isolated shoal in the North Sea, about 60 miles off the northeastern coast of England, which sank after being hit by a huge floodwave around 6,100 BC.

"I suspect that myth came from Ireland and it derives from Dogger Bank. I think the memory of Dogger Bank was probably preserved in Ireland for around 3,000 years and became mixed up with the story of Atlantis," he said.

Erlingsson links the boundaries of the Atlantic Empire, as outlined by Plato, with the geographic distribution of megalithic monuments in Europe and Northern Africa, matching Atlantis' temples with well-known burial sites at Newgrange and Knowth, north of Dublin, which pre-date the pyramids.

His book, "Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land," calculates the probability Plato would have had access to geographical data about Ireland as 99.98 percent.

Previous theories about Atlantis have suggested it may have been around the Azores islands 900 miles west of the Portuguese coast, or in the Aegean sea. Others locate it solely in the long-decayed brain of Plato.

Seismic Anamoly · Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 3039

OR THIS.....

:hicks

bbchris

I remember reading about Atlantis when I was a little girl. I wanted to live underwater too. :banana

Sterling30 · Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 249

No, that's not Atlantis, there's no evidense at all to support that theory, it's at the bottom of the Mediterrean if anywhere, the evidense is all there, and I'm 99% sure the Pyramids and Sphinx are remnats of that civilazation

Ever hear of Donovan Leach Chris? Download the song " Atlantis" sometime and give it a few good listens.., he sure did his homework on it allright, though he's wrong about it's whereabouts also, IMO.

ATLANTIS

Donovan

The continent of Atlantis was an island

which lay before the great flood

in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

So great an area of land, that from her western shores

those beautiful sailors journeyed

to the South and the North Americas with ease,

in their ships with painted sails.

To the East Africa was a neighbour, across a short strait of sea miles.

The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture.

The antediluvian kings colonised the world

All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas

In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.

On board were the Twelve:

The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,

The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.

Though Gods they were -

And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new

Hail Atlantis!

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

I wanna see you some day

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

My antediluvian baby,

My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,

Girl, I wanna see you some day.

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah

I wanna see you some day, oh

My antediluvian baby.

My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you

My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone

I wanna see you some day

Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah

Oh glub glub, down down, yeah

My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Edited by: Sterling30 at: 8/13/04 18:52

Sterling30 · Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 249

The Azores is another possability.., if so, just a small part of Atlantis I think..

www.goldenageproject.org.uk/survey.html#map

The observational evidence of the geological structure of the Azores Islands, above and below current sea level, does provide evidence of river systems, which must have been created by a much larger land area. However not enough convincing evidence exists because of substantial past volcanic activity, subsidence and land slippage within the area. This creates problems in searching both for ancient remains or biological evidence that may still exist.

Sterling30 · Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 249

The great dramas and antics of the other forums are not allowed here and that's what makes this such a nice place. So please do your part to keep it that way by not bringing their issues here, ok? Thanks.

Sterling30 · Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 249

Supposedlt another large city similar to the Maya structures in Mexico.., no photos anywhere though that I can find..

www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/lostcity.htm

The discoveries were made last summer during deep-sea surveys made by Paulina and a trained scientific research team aboard the Cuban research vessel Ulises. Sonar images revealed 'an extensive series of structures' over a several-mile area in darker and lighter shades. The site is close to the edge of the underwater geological feature known as the Cuban shelf, which falls off sharply in a series of shelves which drop down to several thousand metres, and it is on one of these shelves, in around 600-700 metres of water, that the structures are to be found. The mass of rectilinear features are said to be located in the proximity of an 'extinct volcano, geological faults and a river bed'. This last fact alone shows that the land shelf, which rises to a height of around 40 metres, was once above water.

Social Spit · Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 251

Anyone watching Stargate: Atlantis? I thought I was going to hate this show, but it is ratehr cool... At least I do not have to look at McGuyver every week, HAHA.

Gregg, remember that I am giving you all day today to say anything you wanna say:

http://p201.ezboard.com/fthe13thfloor98729frm17.showMessage?topicID=205.topic

Board is all yours bud

Edited by: Social Spit at: 8/14/04 22:58

Social Spit · Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 251

Quote:
The great dramas and antics of the other forums are not allowed here

-Natch. Which was why I gave you ONE last chance to tell your side of it in a place where it IS allowed. The floor was yours yesterday, and I would have listened to your side of the story, it was all set up for you.

However, you decided to blow off the chance, so screw you. And the ejecta that I quoted from your MOUTH stays on the masthead of the board.

One apology to Leah ain't gonna cover your crap this time, and hiding in here ain't gonna protect you from Kharma.

Chris, sorry about bringing this here, but I just had to notify this little PRICK about these facts...

I'm done with him,. Shauna's done with him, and Leah is done with him. So, this is the ONLY place where this will even be mentioned on your board, I apologise. I will interrupt his little facades no further. However:

He owes a BIG one to Dixie.

Ok, please return to your regularly scheduled nonsense Gregg- I'll be careful that I don't step on yurass as I move about the threads in this place. Good-Night, I will NOT ever look in here again, and I can actually do that eh?

bbchris

Social Spit, there are many people including members of my family that visit the Blah Blah board who do not know who is Shauna, who is Dixie etc. Please DO refrain from dragging stuff from other boards to here. thanks for the apology in advance! I hope to see you back sometime in the future.