presence06 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 (edited) (CBS) - Has the lost city of Atlantis finally been found? A U.S.-led research team claims they have discovered the remains of what might be the mythical city in a swamp in southern Spain, according to Reuters. They theorize a massive tsunami sent the city to its watery grave thousands of years ago. ? Of course, according to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis is believed to have been an island. But Freund's team recently discovered "memorial cities" in central Spain they claim were built by survivors of Atlantis in the original city's image. "We found something that no one else has ever seen before, which gives it a layer of credibility, especially for archeology, that makes a lot more sense," Freund told Reuters. There are, as readers will no doubt guess, a lot of "ifs" and "maybes" in the report. Critical readers may also not be surprised that this announcement precedes the premier of "Finding Atlantis," a new special on the National Geographic Channel starring Freund and his team. CBS News Pretty interesting stuff. Edited March 15, 2011 by evn. Trimmed to something within the bounds of fair-use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episode Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Swamp != the sea. While a great find, not Atlantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frylock86 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Josh Gates or GTFO. Besides, everyone knows Atlantis is sitting cloaked in the San Fransisco Bay :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted March 14, 2011 Subscriber¹ Share Posted March 14, 2011 Besides, everyone knows Atlantis is sitting cloaked in the San Fransisco Bay :shiftyninja: ^ This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted March 14, 2011 Global Moderator Share Posted March 14, 2011 Josh Gates or GTFO. Besides, everyone knows Atlantis is sitting cloaked in the San Fransisco Bay :shiftyninja: That's news to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted March 14, 2011 Veteran Share Posted March 14, 2011 That's news to me. It's a Stargate reference, if you didn't watch the "Atlantis" series you won't have any idea what they are talking about, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frylock86 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 That's news to me. Stargate: Atlantis reference ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It could be Atlantis or it could be (most likely) anything else. How the hell are they supposed to know for sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It could be Atlantis or it could be (most likely) anything else. How the hell are they supposed to know for sure? Maybe they found an: "Welcome to Atlantis, 4 interchanges, population 3000" sign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It could be Atlantis or it could be (most likely) anything else. How the hell are they supposed to know for sure? They found a sign saying "Atlantis Central Station". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacer Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 They say that they're amazed at "the power of tsunamis" because one may have wiped out this town that was 60 miles inland. But this town is also 1000s of years old, so wouldn't that mean the coastlines were drastically different back when this town was above water? So who's to say how far the town actually was from the coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frylock86 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 It could be Atlantis or it could be (most likely) anything else. How the hell are they supposed to know for sure? They found a Puddle Jumper sitting next to the stargate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Oh, great, next they're going to find the location of R'lyeh, wake up Cthulhu, and doom us all. Gotta get myself ready, hope I'll be eaten first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcruicks Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Besides, everyone knows Atlantis is sitting cloaked in the San Fransisco Bay :shiftyninja: haha +1! Maybe its a bigger Atlantis like the one the replicators built...might even be a ZPM or 2 down there! :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 I wasn't really sure where to move this too: I guess archeology is a social science but with Atlantis being "discovered" several times a year in different parts of the world it's almost the stuff of conspiracy theories. All the same this isn't back-page news material so it was moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zain Adeel Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 did anybody watch the show? it was pretty amaizing. They had these SONAR stuff going on to image underwater terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted March 15, 2011 Member Share Posted March 15, 2011 Their find is amazing but that doesn't make it Atlantis. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ls_dragons Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Swamp != the sea. While a great find, not Atlantis. Swamp today -- not necessarily swamp thousands of year ago - when Atlantis was supposed to exist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Swamp != the sea. While a great find, not Atlantis. You're not a big follower of the myth, are you? Being in a swamp right now does not inherently mean it's not Atlantis. It could be on land now for all we know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etempest Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Wasn't it the Minoan civilization (island nation) destroyed after massive volcano hundred of miles away, attributed to the being Alantis. They head numerous amount of murals depicting bulls, and the palace was a massive maze. The theory is being a land locked / sea trading, tsunami destroyed all the boats and did heavy damage on land and they died out very quick after that. Also kinda like the amazon's yet evidence was in the Russian steps. Based on the graves, the females had all the "war" wounds where the males did not but as the remain got newer the the war type wounds shift the men being the warriors over time. Either way, the news of finding an remains of ancient city state / civilization is always exciting, and look forward to what they find (even if it's not legendary lost city) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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