Seafloor survey buoys Atlantis claim

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Seafloor survey buoys Atlantis claim
Andreas von Bubnoff


Earthquake debris shores up evidence for lost city.


"There occurred violent earthquakes and floods. And in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea."

This account, written by Plato more than 2,300 years ago, set scientists on the trail of the lost city of Atlantis. Did it ever exist? And if so, where was it located, and when did it disappear?

In a recent paper in Geology, Marc-Andre Gutscher of the European Institute for Marine Studies in Plouzané gives details of one candidate for the lost city: the submerged island of Spartel, west of the Straits of Gibraltar.

The top of this isle lies some 60 metres beneath the surface in the Gulf of Cadiz, having plunged beneath the waves at the end of the most recent ice age as melting glaciers caused the sea level to rise.

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050718/full/050718-13.html

[Squatch]

1. Is Plato the only person to have ever described Atlantis?

[WoodrowFan]

2. yes (NT)

[Squatch]

3. Then I wonder if he was just taking poetic license when

he described it. It could have been just a piece of fiction that has kicked off decades of searching for submerged cultures.

[ikri]

4. Can't think of any other source

Although there are allusions to odd civilizations that crop up throughout the ancient world I think that Plato was the only source to ever talk about a specific place.