Atlantis found?

[Mensa]

I read this article in the newspaper and watched a follow-up to it on the News. Using side-scan radar, they exposed a number of very interesting structures that could be man-made. The buildings were arrayed neatly along what appeared to be a road. They looked similar to meso-American pre-Columbian structures, but there is no evience elsewhere in Cuba of any such structures.

The article:

The Canadian Press

HAVANA- Getting to the bottom of the mystery of what could be a lost underwater city near Cuba is far more exciting for a Canadian-led expedition than bringing up emeralds from a galleon on the ocean flloor. This week, their discovery of what appears to be a sunken island with massive temple-like structures will receive an important boost from an expert.
Manuel Iturralde, one of Cuba's top geologists, plans to tell an international conference of geophysicists in Havana on Friday that there is no geological explanation for the megalithic stone formations found in about 700 metres of water some four kilometres off the western tip of Cuba.
Interviewed at his office Tuesday at the National Museum of Natural History in Old Havana, Iturralde said it is too early to say definitively that the structures are man-made.
Iturralde's conclusion represents a vote in favour of the Canadian-led deep-ocean exploration team.

Could this be the lost city of Atlantis? Troy was once thought to be pure mythology but was found and proved true. Edgar Cayce predicted that it would be found. Such a find would be earth-shattering.

Of course, it could turn out to be so much bunk. But it is interesting. Do you believe the Atlantis story could be true or that it's a fairy-tale?

Me, I don't know. So much strange things have proved true for me to be definite about anything anymore.

 

[Silverlily]

I would like to think Alantis exists. For some reason, it is important to me to believe there are things outside of what we have created.

But like you, I need concrete proof.

 

[Mensa]

But like you, I need concrete proof.

You could be out of luck, I think these were made from stone.

 

[Silverlily]

that was really bad

 

[pondman]

Maybe

It is nice to think that some other civilazation self detructed be for us

 

[Nomad4112000]

The theroy of Atlantis has had many different versions. I have studied some of these work from several doctors and scientist, also a lot of quacks. The thing is I to want proof but there is to many thing in the pacific that remain that can not be explained. I for 1 beleive in Atlantis but I also beleive there has been a lot of hype about it. Who knows we may never but until the I stay at home and clean my guns like the voices tell me to.........

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

TLC had a good special on the location of atlantis being underwater near creece, a lot of conjecture but the underwater finds and the plato account worked.

but its all here say until you can get archeologist into any of these places

Oh on thier destruction, I wouldn't take it to be self destruction natural destruction

 

[Phoenyx]

TLC had a good special on the location of atlantis being underwater near creece, a lot of conjecture but the underwater finds and the plato account worked.

but its all here say until you can get archeologist into any of these places

Oh on thier destruction, I wouldn't take it to be self destruction natural destruction

Todd Thats Greece not creece. Capitol G. Dont disgrace my heritage.

 

[Mensa]

TLC had a good special on the location of atlantis being underwater near creece, a lot of conjecture but the underwater finds and the plato account worked.

but its all here say until you can get archeologist into any of these places

Oh on thier destruction, I wouldn't take it to be self destruction natural destruction

The Santorini theory? I don't buy that one, it was right in the middle of the then civilized world. Everyone would have known about Atlantis had it been located there.

 

[dreamer]

Unless that is he meant Crete, which I have also heard was a potential for Altantean mythos.

Wherever it may have been, I for one would love to believe. But, as in most things I remain skeptical. Now if someone can just tell me how the Egyptians knew so much about archeticure, mathematics, and astronomy...hmmm....

ACK did I just break rule number 3??

 

[Phoenyx]

The Santorini theory? I don't buy that one, it was right in the middle of the then civilized world. Everyone would have known about Atlantis had it been located there.

There is a theory that Atlantis was high in the Mountains of Peru
There is a plateau that matches the dimentions and all the characteristics of Atlantis.


Besides didnt Atlantis blow up long before the mediteranian became civilised?

 

[fgarvb1]

western side of Cuba?

it might be an outpost or an related city. I'm putting my money on Plato and that he repeated the story the best he could remember it. and got the location right. Then there is Edgar Casey.sp?

 

[Mensa]

Unless that is he meant Crete, which I have also heard was a potential for Altantean mythos.

Wherever it may have been, I for one would love to believe. But, as in most things I remain skeptical. Now if someone can just tell me how the Egyptians knew so much about archeticure, mathematics, and astronomy...hmmm....

ACK did I just break rule number 3??

Plus the pyramids. There is clear evidence in Egypt that they experimented before getting it right, yet no such evidence of experimentation in the Americas. Why, I wonder?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

There were plenty of "lost island" myths long before Plato mentioned Atlantis (the ONLY mention of Atlantis, anywhere), and, as it was said above, it was most likely based on some oral history of a sunken city somewhere in the Med.

If there's a sunken city off Cuba I can think of a couple of ancient Western Hemisphere civilizations it could belong to. Why bring up "Atlantis"? It's silly.

 

[fgarvb1]

So was Troy until someone found it.

 

[Phoenyx]

So was Troy until someone found it.

Did they find the horse?

 

[Mensa]

There is a theory that Atlantis was high in the Mountains of Peru
There is a plateau that matches the dimentions and all the characteristics of Atlantis.


Besides didnt Atlantis blow up long before the mediteranian became civilised?

I saw that programme. Very interesting and thought-provoking. Just one thing, though, Plato said it sank beneath the waves not that it was raised up into the mountains.

 

[Darowyn]

There was a series on UK TV recently proposing that there were early urban cultures in many regions which were then coastal and which are now many metres under water. Off the coast of India, in the west Atlantic, in the Indonesian archipelago and in the North sea are only some of them.
I believe that the idea that the Mediterranean was once dry land is geologically respectable these days, and the flooding of the Black Sea was within written historical memory.
Atlantis was everywhere! Sea levels have risen hugely since the end of the last ice age.

 

[Phoenyx]

I saw that programme. Very interesting and thought-provoking. Just one thing, though, Plato said it sank beneath the waves not that it was raised up into the mountains.

Plato was a story teller. Plus he was on crack

 

[Mensa]

There was a series on UK TV recently proposing that there were early urban cultures in many regions which were then coastal and which are now many metres under water. Off the coast of India, in the west Atlantic, in the Indonesian archipelago and in the North sea are only some of them.
I believe that the idea that the Mediterranean was once dry land is geologically respectable these days, and the flooding of the Black Sea was within written historical memory.
Atlantis was everywhere! Sea levels have risen hugely since the end of the last ice age.

There are indeed several all around the globe in very diverse places. There is more to human history than we currently know. That is why I take most declarations of fact with a healthy grain of salt. What do we truly know beyond our own personal experience?

 

[scylis]

There is a theory that Atlantis was high in the Mountains of Peru
There is a plateau that matches the dimentions and all the characteristics of Atlantis.


Besides didnt Atlantis blow up long before the mediteranian became civilised?

saw a show about that, too. a show which, in fact, debuncked that particular theory. it was created when an archeologist started scouring satellite images to look for possible clues. he went thru all the "know" facts about Atlantis and the pictures appeared to show just that. the circular structure to the city, what looked to be waterways, the whole nine yards. but when they actually mounted the expedition and got there, turned out it was really nothing at all. just flat, desolate ground. not even a hint of the tiniest of clues was found. so he whimpered and pouted and went back home. (hey, i'd wimper and pout too, damnit)

 

[Phoenyx]

Havent seen that one yet.


to bad so sad huh?

 

[WhiteRose]

I like to believe in the possibility of Atlantis (and other civilizations that have disppeared) just like I like believing in the possibility of Bigfoot/Sasquatch/(forget the name for the one down in Florida)/Yeti/Loch Ness Monster/etc., but at the same time, I don't necessarily want them ever to be found.

We need mysteries, we need something left to wonder about. Some things should remain beyond the bounds of FACT, mainly to keep them from being exploited and eventually destroyed completely, since that's what we humans seem to do to most everything. Every time there are sightings of Bigfoot, hordes of hunters are out in force to KILL it so they can display it. I'd rather believe in its existence and wish it well in peace.

 

[Orlanth]

On the Island of Crete, which is South, South East of Greece, that an ancient civilization there; were believed to be the city of Atlantis.
The Ancient Minions (spelling). The city was found, and it looked as they had work toilets, water pressure, and what seemed to be automatic doors.

Also there was an Island in the Med' sea which would have been destroyed by a Volcano eruption.

I believe there is Atlantis; we just haven't found it yet.