Andalucia is a region in modern day southern Spain and host to the lost city of Tartessos, which disappeared in the 6th century BC. The Tartessians were traders and known to the Greeks who knew of their legendary king Arganthonios.
Some of the proponents of the this theory suggest that Atlanteans were the Sea Peoples who attacked the Eastern Mediterranean countries around 1200 BC. The hypothesis was originally developed by Juan Fernández Amador de los Ríos in 1919, and further studied by Jürgen Spanuth in the early 1950′s.
Satellite images of the area show two rectangular structures and concentric circles which have been hypothesized to be the “temple of Poseidon” and “the temple of Cleito and Poseidon”. [read more]
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