Atlantis is a Story Well Told
For the lost island empire of Atlantis, countless films not to mention books have speculated about it. There is no explanation as to where it is or what it was. What is assured is such Much fascination from professionals and amateurs can be associated with Atlantis, something that was part of two essays, Timaeus and Critias, by the Greek philosopher named Plato written in 360 BC. A topic like this translates to 438 titles from an online bookstore. It was Disney that released Atlantis The Lost Empire which was a full feature film.
Most scholars who believe Atlantis did exist in some form insist Plato couldn't have made everything up about that sacred island which then beheld the light of the sun, brought forth fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance. Can another historical figure be responsible for Plato's Atlantis? When Plato introduced Atlantis to the people, he was never able to say how factual it is for he died twelve years later.
Atlantis was quoted by Plato from a historian named Solon who was real. As said by skeptics, Plato might have been fooled by Solon's made up tale. It has been said that Plato's intellect could not have had room to provide for a highly detailed description of the island of Atlantis wherein a series of rings make up the empire with the royal palace in the center and dug out canals lead to the cities not to mention having surroundings of statues and intricate bath houses.
How long was Atlantis to have existed? Plato has it being destroyed around 9000 BC, and certainly such an advanced culture some believers think Atlantean scientists even developed nuclear bombs, or at least flying machines would have taken thousands of years to develop. Aside from this, there is the location of Atlantis to worry about. During 1470 BC, a volcano devastated Thira where it was said to have existed.
It has been said that Atlantis may have been in the Azores in the Atlantic off of the coast of Spain as well. Atlantis has always been associated with any new discoveries of underwater ruins. Sailing the world for European explorers became a matter of using maps with locations for Atlantis.
There were numerous elephants and numerous skins from these used for the flying machines they traveled with. Atlantis may also be located off of the modern day Bimini coast. Regardless of how massive the destruction was, people survived. Knowledge was shared by these survivors to the rest of the world when they landed in Egypt. Service as the storage for records of Atlantis in the Great Sphinx is a secret chamber.
It was only in 4000 BC when Antarctica had ice. Only am underground explosions or seismic upheaval generated some activity prior to this. Existing civilizations had no chance of survival with some of these. For one author, much research was done before any writing was done on Atlantis and he found out that it indeed existed in the Atlantic Ocean. The reason for its absence is a nuclear explosion in the past. Then and now saw a number of nuclear weaponry accessible to people. As a result of the civil war in Atlantis was its demise due to nuclear explosions that blew them up.
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