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Troy

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:23:46 +0000

The geoarchaeologist Eberhard Zangger has proposed the hypothesis that Atlantis was in fact the city state of Troy. He both agrees and disagrees with Rainer W. Kühne: He too believes that the Trojans-Atlanteans were the sea peoples, but only a minor part of them. He proposes that all Greek speaking city states of the Aegean civilization or Mycenae constituted the sea peoples and that they destroyed each other’s economies in a series of semi-fratricidal wars lasting several decades.

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Malta

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:23:03 +0000

Anton Mifsud who, with co-authors Simon Mifsud, Chris Agius Sultana and Charles Savona Ventura, published Malta: Echoes of Plato’s Island added another recent hypothesis. Their book is the product of a research about the archeological sites and ancient remains in Malta related to Atlantis.

Francis Galea in his book Malta Fdal Atlantis also wrote about the results of his lifelong research on several ancient studies and known hypotheses on Atlantis, particularly that of Girogio Grongnet, the renowned Maltese architect, who in 1854 claimed that the Maltese Islands are the remnants of Atlantis.

In addition, a supplementary linguistic research by the newcomer Alberto Nikas would further enforce this claim. According to Nikas, Malta, if translated to Etruscan it amounts to Atlas. Malta boasts the oldest free-standing human structures on earth, predating the pyramids by a millennium.

Furthermore, Doctor Hubert Zeitlmair, President of the Foundation “The Research project MALTA” & his wife Dagmar, are one of the few individuals who can decipher and translate proto-Sanskrit at high level. Findings and results of their research as their unique discovery of the sunken temples of Ğebel Ğol-Bahar which has been considered to be of great archaeological importance have been published in international newspapers and magazines. Their recent findings in Malta include the discovery of primeval characters carved out on stone blocks and ancient stone slabs, and the writings seem to point in the direction of Atlantis.

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Sardinia

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:22:16 +0000

In 2002 the Italian journalist Sergio Frau published a book, Le colonne d’Ercole (“Pillars of Hercules”), in which he states that before Eratosthenes, all the ancient Greek writers located the Pillars of Hercules on the Strait of Sicily, while only Alexander the Great’s conquest of the east obliged Eratosthenes to move the pillars at Gibraltar in his description of the world.

According to his thesis, the Atlantis described by Plato could be identified with Sardinia. In fact, a tsunami eradicated Sardinia which destroyed the enigmatic Nuragic civilization. The few survivors migrated to the nearby Italian peninsula, founding the Etruscan civilization, the basis for the later Roman civilization, while other survivors were part of those Sea Peoples that attacked Egypt.

In April 2005, the theories of the Sergio Frau were debated in a high-level conference organised by the UNESCO in Paris. At the same time, an exposition with the major findings of the theory “ATLANTIKA” and its evidence was on display in the UNESCO building to confirm that the organization’s experts took the hypothesis quite seriously, and that this seems not to be “just another Atlantis theory”.

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Portugal

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:21:28 +0000

This theory states that Atlantis was no other than the Chalcolithic civilization of Vila Nova de Sao Pedro and that Mycenean Greeks would have fought against them for the control of tin routes in alliance with neighbour Iberian civilization of El Argar, which shows some clear Hellenization in its B phase. The catastrophe described would be an earthquake with tsunami like the one suffered by Lisbon in 1755.

The recent location of a sea branch reaching Zambujal (the main city of this culture) and the evidence that it was silted somehow when VNSP ended seem to add some weight to this theory.

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Ponza

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:20:30 +0000

Ponza has many similarities to the Atlantis legend. Legend say that Ponza was the lost island of Tyrrhenia which was large and had a city at its edge. It was connected by land to the Italian mainland near Naples. A volcano exploded and the island sunk leaving only the mountain top which is now called Ponza. Near Naples is Pozzuoli where Roman Temples in the harbor rose above water in the late 1960s due to volcanic processes.

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Finland

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:19:44 +0000

Finnish pseudohistorian Ior Bock locates Atlantis in the southern part of Finland where he claims a small community of people lived during the Ice Age. This is a small part of a large saga that he claims to have been told in his family through the ages, dating back to the development of language itself. Ior also believes that he is a descendant of an ancient Finnish god Lemminkäinen.

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Cyprus

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Robert Sarmast, an American architect, claims to have definitely found the lost city of Atlantis on November 14, 2004, saying that by using sonar scans he was able to find manmade walls that matched the description of the structures described by Plato, CNN reports. The site lies 1,500 m deep in the Mediterranean Sea between Cyprus and Syria. Several geologists were quick to dispute the claim, as the place was deep under water during the period in question.

On August 4, 2005, a research has been done by Robert Sarmast in the Eastern Mediterranean sea between Cyprus and Syria. The sonar scans showed evidence of man-made structures one mile below sea level which is possibly a canal wall. Sarmast claims it is a 3 km-long straight wall intersected at right angles by another wall. Nevertheless, in January 2007 Hi-Tech Expedition At “Cyprus Atlantis” Concluded: Alleged “Stone Walls and Manmade Structures” Are A Huge Mud Pile—But It’s Still Atlantis (Or Maybe Eden). Here is a detailed description: http://www.mysterious-america.net/cyprus-atlantis2.html

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Crete & Santorini

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:18:04 +0000

Among those who believe in an historical Atlantis, a common hypothesis holds that Plato’s story of the destruction of Atlantis was inspired by massive volcanic eruptions on the Mediterranean island of Santorini during Minoan times. Skeptics of an Atlantic Ocean location usually promote this theory. Some consider this to be the likeliest hypothesis, though investigators (such as Frank Joseph) discount this theory as misleading. A main criticism of this hypothesis is that the ancient Greeks were well aware of volcanoes, and if there was a volcanic eruption, it would seem likely that it would be mentioned. Additionally, Pharaoh Amenhotep III commanded an emissary to visit the cities surrounding Crete and found the towns occupied shortly after the time Santorini was speculated to have completely destroyed the area.

Part of this hypothesis proposes, because Solon received his information from Egypt, that we assume that the Ancient Egyptian symbol for “hundred” was mistakenly read as “thousand”. If this was possible, the translation would reduce the age and size of Atlantis by a factor of ten. This alteration would make Atlantis fit Minoan Crete well in size and age. Though, a translation error is believed by some to be unlikely because there is highly destinguishable variations in the visual appearance of hieroglyphic symbols of Egyptian numeric values. It should be noted, however, that Solon could have easily confused the spoken Egyptian words for ‘hundred’ and ‘thousand’, *šīʔ and *khīʔ.

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British Isles

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:16:57 +0000

A number of areas within both the British Isles have been caimed as the original site of Atlantis.

Paul Dunbavin, in his book Atlantis of the West: The Case For Britain’s Drowned Megalithic Civilization, argues that the smaller islands and, Great Britain and Ireland was, at one time, a single island named Atlantis. He argues that the Neolithic civilization at the time was partially drowned by the rising sea levels caused by change in the earth’s axis after a comet struck the earth around 3100 BC.

Similarly, Swedish geographer Dr. Ulf Erlingssoned in the book Atlantis from a Geographer’s Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land (2004) hpothesizes that the empire of Atlantis refers to the Neolithic Megalithic tomb culture and deduced that the island of Atlantis was in fact Ireland and that the similarities in both size and landscape were found to be statistically significant. Based on this theory, speculation was made that the capital of Atlantis could be connected with Newgrange, Knowth, and Tara, Ireland. As regards the sinking of Atlantis, it was suggested that it is a memory from another time and place, notably the Dogger Bank area. It was an island that sank in the North Sea about 6100 BCE. While the world sea level rose gradually as the Ice Age ice sheets melted, there was a sudden sea level rise at this time due to the final drainage of Lake Agassiz. At about the same time a tsunami from the Storegga Slide is believed to have devastated the island in the manner described by Plato.

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Andalucia

Alistair Langston — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:15:50 +0000

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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