How to Locate Atlantis
Atlantis exists, but people are looking in the wrong places. Inject science into legends for the best way to find Atlantis. The events surrounding Atlantis' demise are very similar to end-of-ice-age events. Focus your search by understanding that Atlantis was part of a bigger picture.
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Study all the information that you can about Atlantis. Look for materials that talk about it's end. Plato's "Critias" is one place. Other cultures around the world talk about continents sinking beneath the waves.
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Notice common trends. Different theorists propose different Atlantis locations, when it went under and how it went under. They also advance common trends despite their story's differences, such as volcanic eruptions, floods and earthquakes.
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Look at the results from a scientific perspective. Plato placed Atlantis' end 9,000 years before his time. That's a little over 11,000 years ago, toward the end of the last Ice Age. Large ice sheets aren't the only thing that happened during the ice age. Those ice sheets held what's mostly ocean today. Our water levels were lower, exposing large land masses off our coast.
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Obtain a global map showing underwater topography. Compare that to landmasses exposed during the last ice age. Find a landmass that exceeded Libya and Asia as seen by the ancients. Understand that their interpretation of the Atlantic Ocean was different from ours. To them, the Atlantic Ocean encircled the Earth. Look for such an underwater land mass.
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Figure out what part of the world would've supported double harvests, suggesting a warm climate, during the last ice age. Look to lands in the equator area and zero in on the underwater continental shelf connecting Southeast Asia to the Asian mainland. That area was exposed during the last ice age, and lies right on the Equator. It's bigger than Libya as shown on ancient maps.
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Read about geographical, geologic and meteorological changes that take place at the end of an ice age. Understand that when the ice sheets melt, the pressure points shift, causing volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and rising sea levels. Activities associated with the "sinking" of Atlantis.
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Search for Atlantis in the waters in Southeast Asia.
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Tips & Warnings
Divers found underwater structures on our continental shelves; our ancestors built these structures when their areas were still on dry land. Humans tend to live by the water, as the waters rose and they moved further inland abandoning their constructions.
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paboreal
Jan 28, 2009
People found "traces" of Atlantis all over the world, even in the Andes. They share characteristics, just as Western cities share characteristics. The Pillars of Hercules referenced tall mountains as seen from India. As this story moved from India to the Middle East and Egypt, the storyline changed to reflect the local geography. Southeast Asia, during the Ice Age, makes perfect sense for Atlantis' location. In Plato's time, "Atlantic" applied to all the world's oceans, not just today's Atlantic Ocean. -
paboreal
Jan 28, 2009
People found "traces" of Atlantis all over the world, even in the Andes. They share characteristics, just as Western cities share characteristics. The Pillars of Hercules referenced tall mountains as seen from India. As this story moved from India to the Middle East and Egypt, the storyline changed to reflect the local geography. Southeast Asia, during the Ice Age, makes perfect sense for Atlantis' location. In Plato's time, "Atlantic" applied to all the world's oceans, not just today's Atlantic Ocean.
