Atlantis: Still Lost or Now Found?
The fabled lost city of Atlantis has been found — again. This time the ringed city made famous in the writings of Plato 2,700 years ago is located in southern Spain.
A new National Geographic special believes there is sufficient evidence to show that Atlantis existed and is buried in a marshy area near the city of Cadiz. Further evidence of Atlantis can be found stretching 150 miles away from the presumed site in towns that resemble the early descriptions of the city.
That archaeological evidence is said to have been left by Atlantean refugees who fled the city after a devastating tsunami destroyed and submerged their advanced civilization. Those few who would have survived would have moved inland and tried to rebuild using the a familiar style.
A team of scientists, led by Richard Freund, believe that gives credence to their argument that Atlantis has been found.
The lost city of Atlantis has been supposedly found numerous times, including a recent sighting off the west coast of Africa where some ocean floor geography looked suspiciously like a city grid.
The island of Santorini and numerous Mediterranean Sea sites as well as several places in the Caribbean have all been candidates for the lost city. So far, none has passed all the tests to qualify. Will the the site at Cadiz prevail? Only time will tell.
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The Spanish site may be lost Tartessos, tho Huelva up the coast is also a propect. But it is unlikely to be Atlantis since the locale does not fit Plato’s geographic parameters at all well. Atlantis proper was almost surely a supervolcanic island off Portugal that exploded and sank in the 17th century BC (See Roots of Cataclysm, Algora Publ. NY 2009).