Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found

You've probably seen this title before but this time they really may have found it. As they excavate it, it may not seem just as Plato described it but even if it is not this is probably what Plato was writing about.

I've seen a few people here on DV describe the city in their dreams and they feel it is a real place. I'm not sure what people are seeing but Plato was not one to write about fantasy and he would have grilled anyone that said they had knowledge of it. I think this find is going to be interesting.

"The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special."
Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found | Reuters

This is pretty cool. Sweet archeological finds are always exciting and this would be a big one. Here's hoping.

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This is pretty cool. Sweet archeological finds are always exciting and this would be a big one. Here's hoping.

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It's not Atlantis. It's Bikini Bottom.

Could be anything

Hmmm, an entire island of intelligent, hard-working people with tons of sophisticated technology, years ahead of it's time, brought down by a massive tsunami that utterly obliterated everything. That sounds familiar.

....oh look, Japan's on the news again!

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Hmmm, an entire island of intelligent, hard-working people with tons of sophisticated technology, years ahead of it's time,

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as smart as they claim to be, they sure did put a massive nuclear power plant in the wrong spot.

Could have put it on the east coast of the island, further away from the fault lines.

chernobyl was a disaster, but it was only one reactor........



sorry, off topic.

That would be cool it they found Atlantis.

True, they probably could have found a better location to build it. But I don't think there's really any safe place to put a nuclear power plant. You can't effectively defend against every natural disaster.

esp. not on a island that was created by volcanic activity and movement of the earth.

Accordonline dream journaling to Plato, there is a lost city, somewhere out in the Atlantic, which sunk beneath the waves 12,000 years ago. The story was an ancient one in Plato's day, passed down from his great grandfather who had heard the tale from an Egyptian priest. The island had been destroyed by the gods.

The Egyptian priest called it Atlantis. He described a spectacular city nestled on the island; filled with palaces, stately government buildings, sprawling bridges, great amphitheaters, race-courses, and public baths. Two streams ran down from an enormous hill which sat at one end of the island. Out of one poured fresh, frothy, hot water. The other was clear, crisp, and cold. The earth, rich and loamy, was thick with mineral deposits. It was covered in a lush meadow and everywhere there roamed fattened livestock. The temples of the city had pinnacles of solid gold and roofs of ivory. The sides of the buildings were coated with precious metals, brass, tin, and oriculum. The city glistened out over the sea in the setting sun.

It was said of Atlanteans that they grew twice as large as ordinary people and lived twice as long. They were also very beautiful. As legend would have it they were the children of Poseidon, the sea god, who once loved a beautiful mortal woman named Kleito. She bore him many children, and he placed them all on the island where she could care for them. Secretly, he wanted to keep her all to himself.

Life for the people of Atlantis was made idyllic. Their science was exceedingly advanced which allowed them to live in the lap of luxury. They slept and woke in opulence, entertained without end, ate the fat of the land, and drank wine in abundance. All was well at first, and the people were happy.

But as time went on, the psyche of the city corroded. Nobody did any work. The nightly drunkeness gave way to bewildering orgies. The people became jealous of the Gods. With the coming of night, the dark city still glistened, but the sounds of clashing swords, raucous drunkeness, and moans of pleasure echoed out over the calm ocean.

The insolence of man so angered Zeus that he hurled a lightning bolt at the island. It unleashed an enormous tsunami which flooded the city, washing out streets and toppling buildings. Crowds of celebrating people were taken under by furious waves. The island, flooded and ruined, was finally rocked by an enormous earthquake and sank slowly into the sea.

It is rumored that some Atlanteans escaped by boat and landed somewhere in the mountains of Asia.

The Lost City of Atlantis

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It's not Atlantis. It's Bikini Bottom.

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is it near a palm tree island??

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Accordonline dream journaling to Plato, there is a lost city, somewhere out in the Atlantic

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It is rumored that some Atlanteans escaped by boat and landed somewhere in the mountains of Asia.

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So they set sail from within the Atlantic ocean and the first place they reached was Asia?

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*sigh* Don't they find it every damn year?

Riiight...because Asians are so tall and all...

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Riiight...because Asians are so tall and all...

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So they set sail from within the Atlantic ocean and the first place they reached was Asia?

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Yes, because there was a huge flood that covered the land and the tallest mountains in the world are in Asia, according to rumor.

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is it near a palm tree island??

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Yup. Right off the coast of Dubai.

I heard (not from Plato) that Egypt and Avalon were settled by Atlanteans and the Himalayas were settled by Lemurians. This all seems so mythical as if allegory or parable. Od course Edgar Cayce talks a lot about Atlantis also.

Wtf my brother told me that Egypt was settled by atlanteans. He said it was settled by atlantean refugees after the cities were destroyed with some mishap that had to do with these giant crystals that powered their cities that exploded. They took the knowledge of some of their technology with them.

ITT: Mythology is crazyawesome but not true.

Yeah, sounds just like a utopian warning/moral story.

however history repeats itself.

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however history repeats itself.

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The nightly drunkeness gave way to bewildering orgies.

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Usually they find some basis in truth to these wild stories. The story of Troy, until the late 1870's, was thought to be pure fiction. An archiologist who was looked down on because he did things differently (Heinrich Schliemann) looked for Troy to everyones amusement. No ones laughing now and he has succured his place in history and so has Troy once again. But what they are still finding is that Troy was not all that Homer had written. Of course the story of Troy was limited to the limted knowledge of the people of the time but there were many Troys and many times that it fell.

I think something like this will come of Atlantis as well. They'll find the city but it won't be as everyone thought it was.

Well I could argue that Venice is Atlantis, if it's not how everyone thought it was. It's half buried in water, just not completely.

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Its not mythology though. My brother had dreams about it when he was like 11.