![]() ![]() Any archaeological site would have to come complete with a sign saying “This is Atlantis”, otherwise doubts would always exist.The lost city of Atlantis has long been an engrossing mystery, and the subject of much public speculation, conjecture, and wonder. Certainly, in recent years, physical landmarks have been found which might be the same as those described by Plato although this is hardly surprising given the size of South America.ĭescriptions given by Plato of Atlantis can be matched to numerous places around the world and so the probability is that no site will ever be confirmed as Atlantis, even if Atlantis is real. Of course, if Antarctica is Atlantis, then the Atlanteans must have been capable of ocean going voyages, so possibly the continent of South America might be Atlantis. Travel south from the Pillars of Heracles, and eventually the Antarctic is reached possibly, before it was covered in ice, the Antarctic might have been Atlantis. Travel north from the mouth of the Mediterranean and places such as Great Britain, Ireland or a land mass in the Arctic Circle have all been put forward at one time or another as possible locations for Atlantis. The Atlantic Ocean comprises 40 million square miles of surface water, and even a large island could easily be hidden, submerged beneath 3000m of water. Go beyond the Pillars of Heracles as Plato suggests and the whole Atlantic Ocean lies before one. ![]() After all, with all of the Atlantean technology destroyed when the city was lost, who is to say what they would have been capable of. The downside to the argument is of course the fact that Andalusia is not an island.Īs Atlantis is legendary, any location for the Lost City can be put forward, as it cannot be disproved. So based on Plato’s criteria for a location for Atlantis, Andalusia is at least in part on the Atlantic, is beyond the Pillars of Heracles, and is a large area, although not bigger than Africa and Asia. In recent years, the marsh area that makes up the Donana National Park has been scanned by satellites, with images revealing what could be foundations of stone buildings, and as the area has been land and sea, on and off, for millennia, it is a possible location for Atlantis. Tartessos was said to have been a city based on a now lost river a river on the Iberian Peninsula. This region has for centuries been forward as a location of Atlantis.Ītlantis has often been linked with the city of Tarshish from Hebrew texts and Tarshish has often been linked with the seafaring city state of Tartessos. Travelling right to the west of the Mediterranean Sea brings a searcher of Atlantis to Andalusia in Spain. ![]() The former belief though does allow for plenty of speculation about where Atlantis was. ![]() The latter belief, where Plato is using his work to comment on the Athenian state, is probably more convincing without any further evidence. The basic question of whether Atlantis was real or not, boils down to whether Plato was writing a historical manuscript, as believers in Atlantis believe, or whether the story of Atlantis is a moralistic one, as scholars tend to believe. Of course, there has been no confirmed archaeological evidence found to support the existence of Atlantis either, but if there had been then Atlantis wouldn’t be a “Lost City”. Plato though, also says that the events of which he wrote took place 9000 years previously long before the earliest written records known of. These are the first surviving written records to mention Atlantis, although Plato would suggest that he got the story of Atlantis from the Egyptians. Plato wrote briefly of Atlantis in two dialogues, Timaeis and the incomplete Critias, with the works written in about 360BC. Before anybody can put forward possible locations for Atlantis, the question of was Atlantis real has to be answered. ![]()
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