Anthropology buffs: what is your opinion of the lost city of Atlantis? Did it possibly exist? Did it sink?

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Anthropology buffs: what is your opinion of the lost city of Atlantis? Did it possibly exist? Did it sink?

Answer 1

Wrong science.

Perhaps "mythology."

Or, if you REALLY want to believe, archeology.

Answer 2

Perhaps it was Santorini or even South America or Mexico.  If it were Santorini it blew up.  There was a recent documentary where I believe they unearthed an ancient picture that showed a central island that was occupied in the caldera and that could have been Atlantis.  They put the city on a cinder cone, whatever that city was.  

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/alhawk/atlan...

Answer 3

it could have possibly existed many years ago, ppl have said they have pinpointed where it should be but no one has any proof yet.

Answer 4

Well, technically; that's archaeology.

I think like all ancient stories, there is a kernel of truth behind it.  

Santorini is the current leader in the thinking, for circa 1625BC the volcano had a catastrophic eruption.  One that left ash as far away as Iceland.  (its actually one of the greatest values in dating things, since if we knew when it happened, we could accordingly date other world events.

Another possibility would join Atlantis with the Noah/Gilgamesh floods.  At the end of the last Ice Age, as the seas rose; the land barrier between the Black Sea and the Med overflowed/broke; flooding the Black Sea with salt water, and raised the level of the Sea a few hundred feet (and likely engulfed a few settlements).

Answer 5

I think it once used to exist. Plato described it, there were maps back then that showed Atlantis as a continent. Unless Plato was getting philosophical about his envision of society or it was a legend and myth passed down(just like Abomnible Snowmen, Loch Ness, and Bigfoot) like a fiction story. Then there was the story that Atlantis used to be prosperous, then its people became greedy so it was destroyed by the gods. I think more on legendary mythological or biblican means now.

Geological and volcanic activity can swallow up land masses, but an entire continent all at once is hard to believe.

There have been alot of documentaries about underwater formations that seems too geometric and even to be natural. But to me, what is speculated to be a stone road or column looks like just stones on the seafloor to me. Then there are some who speculate Atlantis is now where Cuba(it fits like piece of a puzzle to ancient maps) and the Bermuda Triangle is and there are these pyramids under the ocean with powerful crystals with a force that can doom ships and planes. There's alot of ancient maps that show Atlantis, giving further proof it might once have existed, but many show the continent to be at a different area. One maps puts it right in the middle of the Atlantic, while another puts it in the Mediterranean Sea.

We'll never know whether it existed or not unless some amazing histroy-changing discovery comes up. Ever seen the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? Nemo leads the underwater expedition to a ridge that overlooks the ruins of Atlantis? Over thousands of years, whatever ruins if they existed are probably consumed by the sea unless it's like Atlantis: The Lost Empire where the actual city is sucked underground into an air pocket(least believable) or they were advanced enough to build structures that can last forever.

Answer 6

No it exists. I used to live there when I did a lot of hallucinogenics.