If the Mythical island nation of Atlantis truly existed, then where is it?
Why haven’t we found it yet?
Here are 10 ongoing theories of what really happened to Atlantis.
10.
It’s the Island of Santorini
A common view is that Atlantis was actually part of Santorini, a small island in the East
Mediterranean that was partly-destroyed by the mighty Volcano of Thera in 1646 BC.
Yeah, a looong time ago.
Geologists have suggested that if you reconstruct the island of Santorini, you can see that
this complete version, before it was destroyed by the volcano, used to be Plato’s mysterious
island of legend!
The volcanic eruption may have been the largest ever witnessed by mankind and the explosion
is estimated to have had the strength of 40 atomic bombs and would have been 100 times
more powerful than the eruption at Pompeii.
One geologist disputed Plato’s version of events over Atlantis, claiming that he made
a mathematical mistake which meant his dating was thousands of years off.
He suggested the REAL timeline matches with the events that created Santorini.
He also thinks it ties in with certain events in the Bible so it is easier to place Atlantis
in Santorini.
A nearby town known as Akrotiri was found accidentally, buried under centuries of ash
and pumice.
The town was hidden for over 3,500 years and excavations have revealed buildings that were
2 to 3 stories tall.
No human remains have been found so it is believed people had enough warning to leave.
There are many well-preserved frescoes describing the daily life of the people who lived there.
Whether it was in fact Atlantis that got wiped out by molten lava remains to be seen…
9.
The Black Sea
Some are happy to believe that Atlantis was just a made up story of legend.
But others believe it was a real place.
Not only that, but it was actually something else.
The theory of Atlantis being located in the Black Sea region is a great example of this.
It all centers on the rise of ocean levels following the last Ice Age.
Scientists claimed that when the land joining Europe and Asia separated, the resulting salt
water flow flooded a freshwater lake, turning it into the Black Sea in what’s come to
be called “Noah’s Flood”.
The shoreline of this lake was 350 ft (107m) lower than the current ocean level.
Around this time, there was an ancient culture that was already there.
It was either Neolithic or Chalcolithic and it got submerged around 5,500 BC.
It’s believed by some that this culture was what Plato was referring to when he wrote
about Atlantis.
In this theory Atlantis was started by settlers crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
Experts not only think the “Pillars of Hercules” were in fact the local Strait of Bosporus,
they don’t even see Atlantis as an island… it was an island set in the middle of a whole
country!
When it comes to revelations about Atlantis there are twists and turns everywhere!
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8.
Under Antarctica
Atlantis is usually believed to have somewhere warm, possibly around the Mediterranean, and
you’d probably need your sunscreen (if it had been invented yet).
However an American historian thought the truth was very different.
And colder!
Prof. Charles A Hapgood went on record in the 1950s as believing the mythical island
was in fact, part of Antarctica.
Plato’s utopia supposedly went down as a result of crustal displacement.
Now that sounds like something nasty but it’s actually about the shifting of the Earth’s
crust!
This happens every 20-30,000 years and is bad news for any advanced civilizations who
happen to be sitting in top of it.
Prof. Hapgood was checking out a 500-year old map from Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral,
which showed Antarctica as being a varied landscape with habitable areas away from the
ice.
This apparently was consumed by the cold when the plates shifted.
Further researchers also believe that even though now Antarctica is pretty much just
inhabited by scientists and penguins, about 12,000 years ago, people could have lived
there.
This was mostly just speculation and rumors but more recently, NASA took photos of Antarctica
which seem to reveal traces of a human settlement under the ice.
Some people also claim that Google Earth images also show a pyramid poking out that could
have belonged to an earlier civilization.
None of these ideas have gotten a ringing endorsement from the scientific community,
and until more research is done, the rest of us will have no idea.
7.
Is It Based on Truth?
Atlantis is often portrayed as being the perfect society, a peaceful utopia that was very technologically
advanced.
However, if you look at where the legend started, in Plato’s dialogues written in 330 BC,
he describes a place that is just like any other.
According to him, it was a technologically advanced society that was wealthy, and had
a very powerful military but it was also corrupt.
He claims that Atlantis battled against the city of Athens who came out the hero.
If this were the case, then other Greek text should also mention Atlantis right?
Did he make it up?
How did Atlantis become so famous?
We can all probably thank Plato fans and also Congressman Ignatius Donnelly who wrote ‘The
Antediluevian World’, in 1882, a book that explored the idea of Atlantis and popularized
it for a new audience.
He claimed the place was real and that all great cultures can be traced back to it.
He also added his own facts and stories, so its not really a great source.
He even sent a copy to Charles Darwin who didn’t believe any of it.
Other people who were less skeptical believed there must be some truth to the myths and
now there are even Atlantis experts!
There are many arguments and evidence that it could be in the Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica,
like I just mentioned, Bolivia, Turkey, Malta, or even the Caribbean!
Plato was clear though, it should be past the Pillars of Hercules (which we now know
is the strait of Gibraltar) however, as you know, nothing has been found yet.
6.
It was founded by Lemurians
An old idea about Atlantis is that it’s connected to the lost continent of Lemuria.
Lemuria was believed to be located in the Indian or Pacific oceans but their continent
sunk due to volcanic activity.
They were beings who could travel between dimensions by altering the matter in their
bodies.
Plate tectonic theory and the existence of other continents strongly discount that this
ever existed.
But apparently, when they lost their continent some moved to Africa, and used their powers
of matter control to build the pyramids in Egypt.
Others went on and founded Atlantis which was located in the Atlantic.
Atlantis was punished by the gods because their technology became unethical because
they were messing around with genetic modification and cloning.
Sound familiar?
Once Atlantis was submerged the Lemurians and Atlanteans then spread out and began the
Toltec and other civilizations in the Americas and worshipped the sun.
It’s said there are Lemurians and Atlanteans in the world today so watch out for people
teleporting and lifting rocks with their minds!
Just to be clear, there is no evidence on the ocean floor that these continents ever
existed.
5.
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Plato talks about how Atlantis was swallowed by the sea in a single day.
Even so, you’d think that over the centuries someone would have stumbled on something concrete
to prove the island existed right?
Well this kind of happened in the late 1960s.
A professional diver and physician named Ray Brown was diving in the Bermuda Triangle off
of Miami looking for treasure, and claimed that he had discovered an underwater city.
He said the buildings looked very advanced and found the tip of a pyramid.
As you know the Bermuda Triangle is known for strange disappearances and mysterious
cases of technology malfunctioning.
French explorers later went to the area and also reported finding an enormous crystal
pyramid in the sea bed.
The sonar readings said the pyramid was larger than the largest found in Egypt, with two
holes at the top that sometimes open and suck in water, creating a vortex.
This vortex would be responsible for the dangerous conditions in the sea, creating rogue waves
and thick mist.
Why would the Atlanteans build a water-sucking pyramid?
I’ll leave it to you guys to work that one out!
4.
It’s in the Bahamas
If you’re in the United States then Atlantis may be closer than you think.
To be more precise it could be 50 miles east of Miami!
There lies the island of Bimini, part of a chain of islands in the Bahamas.
Just 20 feet (6m) under the water there are some mysterious stones which could show the
existence of Plato’s fabled kingdom.
These limestone blocks run for half a mile along the bottom and are up to 13 ft (4m)
in diameter.
They form a path-like structure leading them to be called the ‘Bimini Road’ or ‘Bimini
Wall’.
It was discovered in the late 1960s and is believed by some to be proof Atlantis was
a real place.
They think the road leads to Atlantis.
Geological experts argue it’s just a natural phenomenon and the limestone blocks are naturally
shaped by tidal forces.
What can’t be denied is Bimini’s spooky link to Edgar Cayce, an American mysticist.
In 1938 he declared the temples of Atlantis would be found in either 1968 or 1969.
The Bimini Road was first reported in 1968.
You’ve gotta admit that’s a pretty good call on Cayce’s part, whether it’s Atlantis
or not!
3.
Founded by Aliens
You know I couldn’t leave this theory out, since so many people out there actually believe
this stuff, no thanks to Ancient Aliens on the History Channel!
Supposedly aliens landed on our planet in its infancy and helped in the development
of our ancient cultures, one of which was Atlantis.
Some hypnotherapists believe they have spoken to people about living on Atlantis through
past life regression.
Hypnotize someone and chances are they’ll have a past life in a magical kingdom.
These accounts describe the use of crystals as a power source in ancient Atlantis.
Dr. Ray Brown (who I mentioned earlier) claimed that in the lost city he found, there were
2 metal hands holding a crystal ball, which he took for himself.
If you google it, you can see him talking about it in an old documentary on the History
Channel.
The general idea was that aliens were preparing us to be part of an advanced “galactic community”
and we need crystals to participate!
Guess we’re not advanced enough yet as I think the little green men have yet to reach
out!
2.
It’s in Morocco
A German computer genius named Michael Hübner came up with a unique approach to finding
Atlantis in 2008 when he gave a presentation at the Atlantis Conference in Athens.
Others had taken an archaeological approach or used mysticism to locate Plato’s fantasy
island.
Hübner on the other hand wanted to try a mathematical way of doing things.
He used a system called ‘Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction’.
What is that?
I’m not an expert but it’s probably best to describe it as a very detailed method of
tracing Atlantis using all of the information from Plato’s texts.
These details were then matched as closely as possible to real places which produced
some surprising results.
Like many others, Hübner believed Atlantis was in the Atlantic region but he theorized
it was in Morocco, just south of Casablanca in North Africa .He worked this out by finding
concentric circles of stone marked with red and black stripes.
Sure enough these are described by Plato in his Dialogues.
Hübner sadly died in 2013 but his theory was brought to a wider audience by writer
Mark Adams who released the book ‘Meet Me In Atlantis’ in 2015.
The Moroccan argument is a compelling one!
1.Plato Made It Up
I’m sad to say that the most realistic theory is that Atlantis was made up by Plato, the
Athenian philosopher who first told the world about it.
Plato lived between 424-328 BC.
The legendary island with an advanced civilization was described in his Dialogues titled ‘Timaeus’
and ‘Critias’ which were written around 330 BC.
It was watched over by the god Poseidon and named after Poseidon’s son Atlas, who became
its king.
If you believe the gods existed fine, if you don’t then this won’t make sense.
Plato said Atlantis was located in the Atlantic Ocean past what’s thought to be the Strait
of Gibraltar.
That’s possible but when you look at the society of Atlantis it really looks like Plato
invented it.
Plato had a lot of thoughts about what makes a perfect society and it just so happens Atlantis
reflected these ideas.
It also got too arrogant, conquering the globe and then sunk by the gods in a day as punishment
for losing its morality.
It’s believed Plato created the story of Atlantis just to prove a point and warn the
Greeks about their behaviour.
He has sent many on a wild goose chase over the centuries and people have lost fortunes
and their lives looking for Atlantis.
He’s not here to defend himself but he was definitely a good storyteller!
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