Is there truth about atlantis; was it indeed submerged when the strait of gibraltar opened up?

Question

Is there truth about atlantis; was it indeed submerged when the strait of gibraltar opened up?

Answer 1

Some scholars think that the flood myths found in most cultures, including that of Atlantis, refer to the end of the ice age, when rising sea levels submerged many coastal areas.

Answer 2

I am not sure but geologists & archeologists have recently begun to take Atlantis seriously.  It is now known that Atlantis was indeed a place in existence.

Answer 3

The story of Atlantis begins quite literally with two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. These accounts are the only known written records which refer specifcally to a lost civilization called Atlantis. Many people believe the tale to be complete fiction, the creation of a philosopher's imagination used to illustrate an argument. Others believe that the story was inspired by catastrophic events which may have destroyed the Minoan civilization on Crete and Thera. Still others maintain that the story is an accurate representation of a long lost and almost completely forgotten land.

If you think Plato was telling the truth in Timaeus and Critias then Atlantis is located somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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One of the more likely places would be around the Azores Islands. The Azores are a group of islands belonging to Portugal located about 900 miles (1500 km) west of the Portugese coast. Some people believe the islands are the mountain tops of the sunken continent of Atlantis.

(For more information about the Atlantic theory click here.)

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On the other hand, if you feel that Atlantis was an exaggeration of the historical destruction of Thera and the Minoan empire, then it is found in the Aegean.

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The island of Thera, also known as Santorini, is a volcanic island located due north of Crete in the Aegean Sea. Sometime around 1500 BC is was devasted by a volcanic explosion that may have contributed to the sudden downfall of the Minoan civilization.

(For more information about the Thera theory click here.)

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But, if you believe Atlantis was simply a story then it was only located in the long decayed brain of Plato.

The prevailing theories about Atlantis are:

It's Fiction

It's an exaggeration based on the fall of the Minoan civilization and the destruction of the island Thera

It was Real

Below you'll find a brief summary of each of the theories as well as key points either for or against the theory. Although many people in each camp consider the case closed there is no definitive proof for any theory. In the case of the "It's Fiction" theory it is essentially impossible to definitively prove that it was fiction.

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Fiction

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This is the easiest answer - Atlantis is fiction. It was made up to suit the purposes of Plato's dialogues.

For

Nothing to prove. Timaeus and Critias are simply stories.

Against

It is stated several times within the dialogues that the story is true

Parts about the impassable sea and the true continent on the other side of Atlantis tend to indicate a more detailed knowledge that a fictional story

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Thera & The Minoan Civilization

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There are some compelling similarites between the destruction of Thera and the destruction of Atlantis.....

For

The island of Thera, a volcanic island, was destroyed around 1500 BC by an explosion which caused more than half of the island to sink into the sea.

Artifacts found on the island indicate a sophisticated culture, probably part of the Minoan Civilization.

There is evidence pointing to trade between the Minoans and Egyptians. The Egyptians would certainly have been aware of the destruction or at least the tremedous damage done to one of their trading partners.

We'll examine this possibility in more detail in upcoming issues of Enigma.

Against

Proponents of this theory claim that Plato's date of 9000 years ago should really have been 900 years ago: somewhere along the line either Solon or Plato made a mistake. If the story was 900 years ago it would place Atlantis in the time frame of the Minoan civilization on Crete and Thera. Conveniently overlooked in this thinking is that in Timaeus the priest tells Solon that ancient Athens and Atlantis preceeded Egypt by a thousand years. Egypt however existed and was known to have existed since long before 1500 BC, the time of Crete and Thera. The times just don't add up unless you assume the Egyptian priest was ignorant of his own recorded history.

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It Existed

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For

Plato says it's a true story.

We'll examine this possibility in more detail in upcoming issues of Enigma.

Against

There are no other records of such a civlization existing.

Current archaeological evidence does not support the premise that such sophisticated civilizations existed around 9000 BC anywhere in the world.

Answer 4

It was supposedly somewhere "beyond the pillars of Hercules" not at it.  Check your mythology.

Answer 5

Atlantis is the subject of a legend about an advanced island civilization that was destroyed or lost. Stories about Atlantis are first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in which characters say it was destroyed by an earthquake or a tsunami about 9,000 years before the time in which Plato wrote. The story claims Atlantis was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules. According to Plato, the story originated with Ancient Egyptian priests.

Some people believe that the stories are fictions made up to serve the purposes of Plato's dialogs. But others take them as if they were serious historical accounts. There have been dozens — perhaps hundreds — of locations proposed for the classical Atlantis. Some are more-or-less serious attempts at legitimate scholarly or archaeological works; others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. As continental drift became better understood and accepted during the 1950s, most "Lost Continent" theories of Atlantis have been proven conclusively false.

Some cultures have "lost civilization" myths. In some cases, it has been argued that there is a common historical event or real "lost civilization" at the root of some or all of these legends, but there is considerable disagreement between the competing hypotheses. It may be that these legends have arisen from many different historical events, and are only just now being associated by modern theorizers because of their similarity. It may also be that these legends are entirely fictional, but for some reason have arisen and remained popular in many different cultures at different times.

For more info visit: http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_10.ht...

Answer 6

No.