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Black Sea

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:11:30 +0000

German researchers Siegfried and Christian Schoppe locate Atlantis in the Black Sea. Before 5500 BC, a great plain lay in the northwest at a former freshwater-lake. In 5510 BC, rising sea level topped the barrier at today’s Bosporus. They identify the Pillars of Hercules with the Strait of Bosporus.

Oreichalcos means the obsidian stone that used to be a cash-equivalent at that time and was replaced by the spondylus shell around 5500 BC, which would suit the red, white, black motif. The geocatastrophic event led to the neolithic diaspora in Europe, also beginning 5500 BC.

In 2000, the Guardian reported that Robert Ballard, in a small submarine, found remains of human habitation around 300 feet underwater in the Black Sea off the north coast of Turkey. The area flooded around 5000 BC. This flood may have inspired the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark; but the area need not be Atlantis.

Another candidate bordering the Black Sea, suggested by Hasan Umur in the 1940s, would be Ancomah , a legendary place near Trabzon.

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Sea of Azov

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:10:30 +0000

Atlantis Motherland, by authors Flying Eagle and Whispering Wind, published in 2003, locates the Island of Atlantis beneath the Sea of Azov and on the adjacent fertile plains to the west in Ukraine and to the east in Krasnodar Kray, Russia.

Their research is based on tectonic evidence of a massive earthquake centered at Kerch, at the end of the Pleistocene and evidence of a great flood at the end of the Younger Dryas ice age, in 9600 BC.

This date corresponds with the date set by an aged Egyptian priest for the destruction of Atlantis, as recorded in the dialogues of Plato. A massive earthquake caused the island to sink, creating a new sea, which according to Eagle/Wind is the Sea of Azov. The violent earthquakes and floods left the new sea “impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way.” The aged priest refers to the shoals of mud as still existing at that time. The Sea of Azov was blocked by shoals of mud at that time, and would still be today without regular dredging.

The Eagle/Wind team has published a theory regarding the destruction of Atlantis, which they call “The Great Atlantis Flood”; One terrible day and night of misfortune; the extraordinary inundation of Atlantis and Attica.

Their theory proposes that, with over one third of Europe draining into the land-locked Black Sea, and over-flow from the Caspian Sea at the end of the Younger Dryas, the level of the Black Sea rose to within 20 meters of its current level. A devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami increased the hydraulic pressure on a proposed subterranean outflow channel, flowing beneath the Bosporus land bridge and the present day Sea of Marmara and northern Aegean Sea, causing this subterranean channel to catastrophically rupture, generating the “extraordinary inundation” of ancient Attica. The Island of Atlantis, Attica and lands of the ancient Hellenes were all destroyed by the catastrophe. The survivors fled the treacherous sea shores and widespread disease and began founding new settlements.

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Israel & Sinai

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:09:15 +0000

Jaime Manuschevich argues that the real place of the mythical civilization is the territory that today corresponds to Israel and Sinai and that this region was an island in the Great Rift Valley surrounded by the Jezreel Valley on the north, the Dead Sea and Red Sea on the east and the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean Sea on the west until 5600 BC. In addition, Manuschevich proposes that Atlantean civilization corresponds to the Natufian peoples, the first food-producing people, whose main political and harbor center was Jericho. This people lived in the region in the dates established by Plato (11,600 BC).

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Indonesia

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:08:09 +0000

Several groups independently advocate the seas around peninsula Malaysia as a site for Atlantis, which was a large unsubmerged plain known as Sundaland during the Wisconsin glaciation, which ended around 10,000 BC, and connected also to Indonesia. Key to this argument is that the Ocean of Atlantis refers to the ocean which encircles Eurasia and Africa, which was the historical understanding until Christopher Columbus. Natives of Sundaland who fled the rising waters or volcanic explosions eventually had contact with Ancient Egyptians, who later passed the story onto Plato who gets some but not all of the details correct, including location and time period. Some proponents argue that Atlantis myth is seen as a growth of, or in combination with Lemuria and other eden myths. The main advocate of this theory is the Brazilian professor of nuclear physics Arysio Nunes dos Santos.

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