Ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428 B.C.-348 B.C.) gives us our first historical mention of Atlantis. Atlantis was discussed in his works Timaeus and Critius. According to Plato, the island of Atlantis was mountainous and lushly forested with Mount Atlas, a dormant volcano, above a fertile plain irrigated by a network of canals, and south of that was the city of Atlantis, capital of a mighty empire, composed in concentric circles of land and water, connected by canals. According to Plato’s writing, Atlantis sank beneath the ocean in 9000 B.C.
ATLANTIS may have been uncovered and it was hiding off the coast of Britain all along, according to the claims of a historian studying the.
In a single day and night. In his work, Plato quotes Solon who traveled to Egypt and translated their records of Atlantis. Platos’ work describes battle between Atlanteans and Athenians. Most people dismiss it as allegory, a work either pure fiction from Plato’s imagination or inspired by events or other stories like the Trojan War, Egyptian records of the Thera eruption (the island of Santorini having remained), or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily. From Plato’s Timaeus: “For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot.
For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, ‘the pillars of Heracles,’ there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680).
This German Jesuit priest researched Atlantis thoroughly and found a well-preserved leather map of Atlantis in the Vatican Library. Kircher believed it had been made during the fourth century B.C. It had arrived in Rome from Egypt in the first century A.D.Athanaseus Kircher’s map of Atlantis, 1669. Believed to originate from the 4th century B.C.
The map shows Atlantis as a large island with a high volcano in the middle of six major rivers. Comets and asteroids. Some point to two major comet impacts that could have destroyed Atlantis. The first occurred in about 2200 B.C., and the second in 1198 B.C. These could agree with historical records of floods that took place around 2200 B.C. Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945). Edgar Cayce possessed what many believed to be psychic abilities. He would enter a trance state, and gave over 14,000 documented “readings” in his time, answering questions about the nature of the world, diagnosing and healing people and their illness, and speculating about major events to come.
Cayce had much to say on the topic of Atlantis, including that it would rise again in the 1960s and that the history of Atlantis was kept in a Hall of Records located under the sphinx in Egypt. Advanced technology.
The people of Atlantis were supposedly extremely technologically advanced, apparently, even having mastered flight thousands of years before our current understanding of history. Defenders of Atlantis point to ancient records that seem to suggest airplane-esque vehicles may have made their debut way back. Hindu texts from India refer to floating temples called vimanas. Vimana. An ancient wooden artifact was excavated in Egypt that looks like a plane.
The Incas of Peru told stories of a hero who rose high in the air above a flying temple. The Hopi Indians of North America spoke of airplane-like vehicles that were flown over large distances. Unexplored oceans. Much of the planet’s oceans remain a mystery. A whopping estimated NINETY-FIVE PERCENT of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored to this day. It’s estimated that ninety-nine percent of the floors of the ocean are unexplored.
New ocean species are being cataloged all the time. Some ask why don’t we take the same interest in mapping our own planet as we do in our exploration of deep space, the moon, and Mars. High resolution underwater survey technology has only been made possible by advancing technology within the past few years. Radio waves can be used to explore outer space, but sonar is required for our oceans and depth pressure in our oceans remains challenging.
It’s still certainly possible that Atlantis could be successfully evading our search efforts somewhere in the vast, unexplored oceans.