Research & Learn
How to prove it?
Was Atlantis
a real place?
Where, when, how?
1. Summary
"Eye of the Sahara"
Richat Structure
1/a. Location
Why?
Country: Mauritania
Continent: Africa
1/b. Multiple reasons:
"Scientists now believe it was formed by a large dome of molten rock uplifting and shaped by the forces of water and wind."
Could have been
an island before the "great flood"
Matches Plato's Atlantis:
The area would shape an island with
~400 m higher sealevel or lower land:
Humanity always built its biggest cities to well defendable places
African Humid Period
Ancient map of Herodotus:
(430 BC)
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Straits, Islands, River deltas
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Mountains, Hills, etc.
Most cultures have a very similar legend of a huge flood "long ago"
e.g. Noah's Ark, Kumari Kandam, Gun-yu
Similar Flood Myths
Uplifted and eroded
The Sahara was "green"
(~13.000-5000 BC)
Huge catastrophy caused the "younger dryas" climate change and the disappearence of advanced cultures.
Meltwater Pulse 1B
"11,500-11,000 years ago, when sea level may have jumped by 28 m"
Could names like
'Atlantic Ocean' or 'Atlas Mountain'
originate from Atlantis?
Impact Crater was recently discovered in greenland (2018)
"And now, Socrates, I am ready to tell you the whole tale. "
/Plato/
2. Reasoning & Description
/Plato/
Plato
Plátōn, Πλάτων
(~424 – 347 BC)
2/a. Plato's description
In the books Sokrates has a long conversation with Critias about the story of Atlantis which originates from Solon
What do we know and how?
The original story of the lost island of Atlantis comes to us from two Socratic dialogues called Timaeus and Critias, both written about 360 BCE by the Greek philosopher Plato.
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Solon (638–558 BC) traveled to Egypt and in the city of Sais a very aged priest (Sonchis) tells him the Story of Atlantis
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At that time Egypt had the longest recorded history
Some researcher say:
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Herodotus visited Egypt
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Plato himself probably visited Egypt as well
"Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the seven sages. "
Detailed description in Timaeus and Critias
Solon
Sólōn, Σόλων (~630 – 560 BC)
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Location & Area
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Shape & Structure
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Geology & Size
"I will give you not only the general heads, but the particulars, as they were told to me. The city and citizens, which you yesterday described to us in fiction, we will now transfer to the world of reality. "
/Plato/
Herodotus
Hēródotos, Ἡρόδοτος
(~484 – 425 BC)
"Those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles"
Strait of Gibraltar
= Pillars of Heracles
"Surrounding the city was a level plain, itself surrounded by mountains which descended towards the sea. This part of the island looked towards the south, and was sheltered from the north."
/Plato/
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2/b. The Island
"The surrounding mountains were celebrated for their number and size and beauty"
/Plato/
"The island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent."
/Plato/
Did Plato somehow knew about America?
What is the "opposite continent" that Plato mentions?
Why is the island described larger than Lybia and Asia?
What "true ocean" is he talking about?
Questions:
/Plato/
"With such blessings the earth freely furnished them; meanwhile they went on constructing their temples and palaces and harbours and docks. And they arranged the whole country in the following manner"
2/c. The City
Keep in mind:
The city was built on a natural formation, which according to Plato was created by Poseidon.
"First of all they bridged over the zones of sea which surrounded the ancient metropolis"
/Plato/
"alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water, each having its circumference equidistant every way from the centre"
/Plato/
Illustrations inspired by Plato's description
"A canal of three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbour"
Canals
/Plato/
"The entire circuit of the wall, which went round the outermost zone, they covered with a coating of brass, and the circuit of the next wall they coated with tin, and the third, which encompassed the citadel, flashed with the red light of orichalcum."
Could it be that the blue colouring at the Richat structure is a result of the tin and brass walls which have spent the last 11,600 years dissolving into the ground?
Question:
/Plato/
"And the stone they quarried beneath the central island all round, and from beneath the outer and inner circles, some of it being white, some black and some red."
2/d. Buildings
"Some of their buildings were simple, but in others they put together different stones, varying the colour to please the eye, and to be a natural source of delight."
/Plato/
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2/e. The Empire
"Histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable"
/Plato/
The Great Pyramids were probably built by Atlanteans
"For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island"
/Plato/
" There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes."
/Plato/
3. Connections
How does it all make sense?
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"Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia."
/Plato/
Powerful symbol of protection in ancient Egypt also known as the “Eye of Horus” and the “all seeing eye”.
Eye of Ra
("Eye of Horus")
Egypt was a colony of Atlantis
2/f. The Flood of Atlantis
"After the usual interval of years, like a plague, the flood from heaven comes sweeping down afresh upon your people, it leaves none of you but the unlettered and uncultured, so that you become young as ever, with no knowledge of all that happened in old times in this land or in your own."
/Plato/
"For which reason" ~ Because of the flood
"sea in those parts is impassable" ~ Sea became land
"shoal of mud" ~ Muddy area after the flood
"subsidence of the island" ~ Earthing up with mud
Observe:
"Atlantis nesos"
(Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος), literally means "Atlas's Island"
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