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re: Ancient city of Atlantis?
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:21 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:21 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
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This is the theory I like. The Eye of the Sahara
Randall Carlson has looked at this extensively, it's a geologic formation.
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Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:26 pm to philter
His commentary on it is interesting. The thought is that this is where the ancient Egyptians originated from and then moved to the Nile Valley after a cataclysmic event 11,600 years ago. The Eye structure is described by Plato and that region is listed as Atlantia on ancient Roman maps. Really interesting stuff all around whether it is significant or not. The cool thing is that something happened to wipe out and bottleneck the earth at that time.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:31 pm to philter
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Randall Carlson has looked at this extensively
He used to say his best guess was that Atlantis was in the Azores, but now I think he's reevaluated the Sahara site. There is some belief that the Sahara site is linked to a volcano. It's foreseeable to me that a civilization could harness some of the power of a volcano to create useful machinery.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:35 pm to WylieTiger
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The thought is that this is where the ancient Egyptians originated from and then moved to the Nile Valley after a cataclysmic event 11,600 years ago.
Correct. This theory plays into the idea that the Egyptians didn't build the great pyramid or the sphinx, but rather that they inherited it. I don't buy the idea that the Egyptians just forgot all their technology in a short period of time between dynasties.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:46 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
I thought it was in the Bahamas.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:47 pm to mdomingue
Bimini Road
Posted on 1/22/23 at 7:53 pm to WylieTiger
Santorini. Some of the outer ring houses are being excavated and they have found indoor plumbing. No bodies they got out before the big boom.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:10 pm to BeepNode
quote:Sungbo's Eredu in Africa was surrounded by 165 km. of walls, a much larger area than the Richat. Other large ancient cities have been as expansive as the RS.
1. The structure is way too expansive
quote:They didn't build it. It was a natural feature. If water really did run through it via a river from the mountains at a time when North Africa was green, the RS could possibly been very lush with lots of food sources and naturally protected.
2. Why would they build dirt rings 100' high?
quote:A lot of the bedrock is stripped away, and I'm sure parts o the formation were wiped out, but it's a massive geological formation that is and has been rising for millennia.
Why didn't the rings disappear
I'm pretty skeptical, but if water really did flow through it and it had a lot of fauna and plant life, a culture of some kind could have existed there.
This post was edited on 1/22/23 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:29 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
I’ve always felt like Atlantis in its typical depictions is nothing more than a mythological city. However, I don’t doubt that it’s based on an ancient city that was lost to the sea.
This post was edited on 1/22/23 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:30 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
There are likely several lost civilizations since the last ice age. Sea levels have risen almost 400 ft since 20,000 years ago. That kind of sea level can bury a lot of civilizations.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:38 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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Wouldn’t there be evidence of mining for all the things we mine for now? Gold, coal, iron ore, etc. We certainly leave marks on the earth through mining that will be noticeable thousands of years in the future.
Well, as I mentioned, we are finding sites that predate the 11,000 year date. You have to grasp that some areas in earth were wiped out. By wiped out, I mean completely gone. Some areas survived and we see this today. It is kind of hard to find evidence of a civilization that we weren’t sure where they lived.
Another take, roughly 60% of humanity today lives near the sea coasts. Sea levels rose roughly 460 ft after this event. It’s safe to assume they developed sea travel as even primitive tribes find water travel easiest. If this bears true, more than half of the cities are underwater.
It’s not hard to think these people could have developed ocean sailing with some sort of world wide contact. They left stone carvings of similar design everywhere. Cultures share similar myth stories that shouldn’t have contact with each other. Similar words for certain objects.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:46 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
Atlantis is a myth created by Plato. The fact people are still talking about it in todays world is funny as heck.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 8:58 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
Part of the issue is Plato's description of "beyond the pillars of Hercules" and the assumption that is Gibraltar.
Hercules was obviously well known in the Hellenistic world. He was well known elsewhere such as the Crimea, Turkey, and probably into what is now Chechnya. No where is Spain/Hispaniola is mentioned. So Plato's pillars of Hercules is very likely an eastern Mediterranean or black sea reference.
Just like the Amazons were scythian female warriors of the western steppes and some a-hole named a forest after them in the western hemisphere the pillars of Hercules have had a western tint added to it (British) and screwed it all up.
Hercules was obviously well known in the Hellenistic world. He was well known elsewhere such as the Crimea, Turkey, and probably into what is now Chechnya. No where is Spain/Hispaniola is mentioned. So Plato's pillars of Hercules is very likely an eastern Mediterranean or black sea reference.
Just like the Amazons were scythian female warriors of the western steppes and some a-hole named a forest after them in the western hemisphere the pillars of Hercules have had a western tint added to it (British) and screwed it all up.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:25 pm to I20goon
Plato wouldn't even know about Gibraltar. The Greek empire didn't travel that far.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:28 pm to Junky
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Sea levels rose roughly 460 ft after this event.
That was over 1000s of years. The average rate was .8 inches per year. More than enough time for any advanced civilization to move inland.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:28 pm to Boss
Plato heard the story from Solon, a Greek statesman who traveled to Egypt.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:32 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
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Humans have been on earth for around 150,000 years. I have a real hard time believing we just walked around picking up berries for 100,000+ years and then all of a sudden started figuring shite out 10,000 years ago.
Why would you have a hard time believing this? And how did something so dumb can 19 upvotes?
Societies advance when new discoveries, inventions, advancements happen.
Agriculture, irrigation, iron, medicine, antibiotics, industry, etc.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:34 pm to Boss
quote:Yes they did. People of the region had traveled to and beyond Gibraltar long before Greek society even developed. It had been known of by many cultures for millennia.
Plato wouldn't even know about Gibraltar. The Greek empire didn't travel that far.
This post was edited on 1/22/23 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:35 pm to Fun Bunch
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Why would you have a hard time believing this? And how did something so dumb can 19 upvotes?
Because I don't think it takes 140000 years for humans to learn basic shite like agriculture.
Posted on 1/22/23 at 9:39 pm to 0x15E
quote:Baja Mar is the place to go in Nassau...
I prefer Sandals TBH
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