Defining Atlantis
In July 2005 scientists and researchers from around the world met on the Greek island of Milos for an international conference, The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land.
The aim of the Conference was to serve as a forum for the presentation and constructive discussion of all the issues relating to the hypothesis of the lost land of Atlantis. The purpose of the meeting was to gather specialists of all the different disciplines involved in highlighting the scientific aspects of this fascinating subject.
Based on the accounts of Plato, the conference participants subsequently agreed on the following criteria, which a geographical area must satisfy in order to qualify as a site where Atlantis may have existed:
- The Metropolis of Atlantis should have been located where an island used to be and where parts of it may still exist.
- The Metropolis of Atlantis should have had a most distinct geomorphology composed of alternating concentric rings of land and water.
- The Atlantis should have been located outside the Pillars of Hercules.
- The Metropolis of Atlantis was greater than Libya and Anatolia and Middle East and Sinai (combined).
- Atlantis must have sheltered a literate population with metallurgical and navigational skills.
- The Metropolis of Atlantis should have been routinely reachable from Athens by sea.
- At the time, Atlantis should have been at war with Athens.
- The Metropolis of Athens must have suffered a devastating physical destruction of unprecedented proportions.
- The Metropolis of Atlantis should have sunk entirely or partly below the water.
- The Metropolis of Atlantis was destroyed 9000 Egyptian years before the 6th century B.C.
- The part of Atlantis was 50 stadia (7,5 km) from the city.
- Atlantis had a high population density, enough to support a large army (10,000 chariots, 1,200 ships, 1,200,000 hoplites)
- The region of Atlantis involved the sacrifice of bulls.
- The destruction of Atlantis was accompanied by an earthquake.
- After the destruction of Atlantis, the passage of ships was blocked.
- Elephants were present in Atlantis.
- No physically or geologically impossible processes were involved in the destruction of Atlantis.
- Hot and cold springs, with mineral deposits, were present in Atlantis.
- Atlantis lay on a coastal plain 2000 X 3000 stadia surrounded by mountains falling into the sea.
- Atlantis controlled other states of the period.
- Winds in Atlantis came from the north (only in Northern hemisphere)
- The rocks in Atlantis were of various colors: black, white, and red.
- There were canals for irrigation in Atlantis.
- Every 5th and 6th year, they sacrificed bulls.
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For more details about the Conference the official website can be viewed here.
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We have proof of an Atlantis-like event occurring 9620 BC — three items of evidence, each from a different scientific discipline.
And now, a new video is coming out which sheds new light on the probably geology of Atlantis. On July 26, 2010, “Why the Philippines will Not be the Next Atlantis,” will be released at, http://www.ancientsuns.com/fwd/mia/.
Also, join in on the discussion at http://blog.ancientsuns.com/?p=25.
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