Did "Atlantis" exist?

Question

Only a dumbbell with an I.Q. of ten will believe "Atlantis" existed. Is all phony balony. As P.T. Barnum said once, "there is a sucker born every minute". Feedback, please.

Answer 1

I believe it existed and was a case of a city built in the wrong place. The ring shaped Island of Santorini was the location but the island in the middle of the central lagoon where the city was located turned out to be the crater of a long extinct volcano which came back to life and destroyed not only the city itself but wiped out the civilization on Crete.  Whether or not it was actually named Atlantis is doubtful.  It was probably a part of the Minoan civilization and was a major trading center, having a mid ocean safe harbor.  It would have been one of the most prominent cities of it's time.  It's total destruction would surely have led to the legend that has endured for thousands of years.

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Answer 2

Did you ask just to insult people?

I'm sorry, that doesn't speak much to your own intelligence.

Answer 3

The mythical Atlantis is a myth.  I do believe that cities have sunk below the water due to geologic activity, but they were just cities.  Not highly advanced alien civilizations.

Answer 4

Atlantis (in Greek, "island of Atlas") is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. As a story embedded in Plato's dialogues, Atlantis is generally seen as a myth created by Plato to illustrate his political theories[citation needed]. Although the function of the story of Atlantis seems clear to most scholars, they dispute whether and how much Plato's account was inspired by older traditions. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC.

From this is where many people decide to believe if it was just a metaphor or if he was talking in code of a real place. There are many intelligent people that have dedicated their lives in finding the lost city doesnt make them less intelligent  than others.

Its up to a persons individual thought to think if it was real or fake.

Answer 5

My IQ is 156, and according to the scale, I'm a genius. lol. Scary, I know, but I was able to beat my teacher on an IQ test when I was 10.

Anyway, Atlantis did in fact exist. There are some sunken cities that divers have located. There is no way of telling if these cities are Atlantis at this point in time. They found marble statues and pillars of buildings underwater.

So an ancient city did sink into the water at some point in time, there is proof of this now. Whether it's the fabled Atlantis, well that remains unknown. However, I've not heard many stories of other sinking cities, have you?

Answer 6

I dont know but that would be something if there was a place like that. ^_^

Answer 7

Bruno, I don't want to bust your bubble but Atlantis was a very real area.. And it has been and is historically proven............. So believe as you will for the truth will be true in spite of your thoughts........................

Answer 8

Atlantis is spoken of in many epics for example Gilgamesh refereed to it in his epic as the 'City of the Gods'. In the 'Emerald Tablets of Thoth' he wrote that he crash landed his space craft in the deserts of khem 36,000 years ago, he came from Atlantis which is called Amenti according to the Khemites. The ancient Sumerians called Atlantis by the name of Antilla. That is the oldest name of it. Atlantis has nothing to do with Greeks they took all the History from the people of the desert regions of the East meaning the Egyptians.The Greeks took their stories and rewrote them based on their interpretation of what the Egyptians told them.

Answer 9

eys it does, mermaids built it so that humans would have a reson to go out and see them.