Echoes Of "Atlantis":Pavlopetri The Worlds Oldest Submerged Town »
Posted By Mikunited 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyA team from the University of Nottingham join an expedition which uncovers the remains of an ancient civilization off the coast of Greece.
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Such a good story and I had great difficulty posting to it ( tried four times ).
Maybe fifth time is charm.
All my reading life I have been interested in “Lost Cities” and “Lost Worlds/Civilizations”.
The Atlantis connection ( both appear to be buried under the sea by some cataclysmic event and even though Atlantis has not been found, the fact that this city was found off the Grecian Coast, piqued my interest.
Atlantis was first mentioned by Plato in his work “Timaeus” and expounded on later in “Critias”. As I recall the story was given to Plato by his Grandfather Solon who had gotten it from the Egyptian Kings, I guess around 500BC. They told Solon that 9000 years prior to his visit the Atlantean Civilization disappeared under the sea one night.
I read a book about the exploration of the Mediterranean around the Volcanic Island of Santorini ( Thera ). I have read that the explosion of that Volcano probably is what wiped out the Minoan Civilization and the Atlantean and it could have also inundated the city of which the article is about.
The size of the explosion laid a deposit of sediment from 600 feet thick at Cyprus to 6 feet thick at the mouth of the Nile.
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Many scholars believe the "Minoan"civilization,could well have been, what Plato was referring to when he spoke of "Atlantis".It's peak years were over a millennium, before Plato started writing his wonderful prose.In those days they were very slipshod over historical time and tended to mythologize things, even more than we do now.
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