Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Atlantis? Really?

Every so often, somebody claims to have found Atlantis.

It's been equated with Minoan Crete, it's been located in all kinds of places, including Germany, off the cost of Cornwall (where a larger island, sometimes called Lyonesse, did indeed exist where the Scilly Isles are today). It could be somewhere in Doggerland, the once inhabited land now covered by the North Sea.

Now, somebody's found it again. Off Spain this time. (Plato did specifically say Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules," which means Gibraltar and thus outside the Mediterranean).

They claim to have found remnants of a sea wall destroyed by a tsunami, they even think they found Poseidon's temple.

They certainly found something....some kind of ruins. But they're far too old to be Atlantis and the "sea wall" is more likely some kind of megastructure built when the site was above water (it's oscillated over the years).

Besides.

Atlantis probably isn't real, as much fun as it is to play with.

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