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Title: Is the lost city of Atlantis on Google Maps? (Telegraph)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer/London Torygraph
URL Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblo ... ves/238865.asp?from=blog_last3
Published: Feb 10, 2011
Author: Nick Eaton
Post Date: 2011-02-10 21:53:50 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Archaeology, Atlantis, Ancient, Civilization
Views: 958
Comments: 69
It's rectangular. It certainly looks man-made. It's off the coast of North Africa. It's deep underwater. And it's on Google Maps. Could it be the ancient lost city of Atlantis? That's what Bernie Bamford, a British aeronautical engineer, wondered after he spotted an unusual pattern of rectangles on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, The Telegraph newspaper reports. About the size of Connecticut, the pattern looks an awful lot like an aerial grid map of a city. Check the site out on Google Maps. Here's an excerpt from The Telegraph report: According to his account, the city sank beneath the ocean after its residents made a failed effort to conquer Athens around 9000 B.C. Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University told The Sun that the find was fascinating and warranted further inspection. You can read more about the intriguing find at The Telegraph's website. Check out the Atlantis Wikipedia page for more info on the mythical city. Poster Comment: Judging just by the Troll Index and the number of Troll comments on the posting (which is a contrary indicator) there may just be some there, there.
Atlantis experts said that the unexplained grid is located at one of the possible sites of the legendary island, which was described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
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I'm a few chapters into a book (The Atlantis Blueprint) that claims Atlantis is Antarctica. The premise is that a pole shift moved the continent to harsher climate from a location closer to the equator that was more hospitable to life. The authors work on the Hapgood premise that claims that prior to 9,600 BC the Arctic Circle was centered on Hudson Bay (60N 83W) and the Antarctic Circle was in the South Indian Ocean (60S 97E). Hapgood collaborated with Einstein on his theory of earth crust displacement and discovered some maps indicating sub glacial Antarctica. I'm not far enough along in the book to comment but that is the crux thus far. That's a compelling Google Earth shot. Edgar Cayce claims we'll find it before major earth changes roll out.
Hapgood's books are available in reprints from Adventures Unlimited Press. The book "The Path of The Poles" is the one which Einstein wrote the forward for. His other interesting work, published before "The Path of The Poles", was "Maps of The Ancient Sea Kings" which is where Hapgood first went "off the Reservation" when he studied the Piri Reis Map and the Oronto Finnaeus Map. One of the things he was able to pull out of the maps is that they were constructed using Spherical Trigonometry thousands of years before it was supposedly invented. Different writers at different times have tried to put Atlantis in a variety of places - from Crete, to Britain, to Antarctica. However, Plato was very clear about its location "beyond the Pillars of Hecules" a.k.a. Gibraltar. What these writers all seem to miss is that Atlantis was not an isolated phenomena with the rest of the world trapped in barbarism. Contemporaneous with Atlantis was an advanced culture in India, generally referred to as the Rama Empire, Greece (supposedly the arch enemies of Atlantis), Egypt, and South America. What seems to have occurred, and this is my own hypothesis, is a world war using nuclear weapons, or possibly a world wide cataclysm which reduced the existing cultures to a pre-literate level - except Egypt who nevertheless sunk to a pre-industrial level over time. Possibly it was a Pole Shift, but at this point the data is insufficient. However we can look at the ruins around the world and see that these people had an advanced technology where they were able to build massive stone structures and monuments many of which we cannot duplicate today. You can find the remnants in Egypt, at Tiahuanco in Peru, Baalbek in Lebanon, Tonga, Nan Madol, and on and on. The architecture is what we have come to call cyclopean both because of its age and the massive scale upon which the ancients built. We are speaking stone blocks of 15 to 20 tons being routine with blocks ranging up in size to the largest, Baalbek in Lebanon, weight in excess of 750 tons. The latter are too large to be lifted save by one crane on the entire planet (located at a shipyard in the South Pacific). As well one can find intriguing traces that suggest an ancient nuclear war - in the "Dead Quarter" of the Saudi Arabian Desert is a glass field of glazed green glass created by the fusion of immense heat over the sands - such as at Alamo Gordo. At Moenjho Daro, of the Indus Valley civilzation one can find figures burned into walls and sidewalks - just like at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is interesting looking at all the evidence for technologically advanced cultures in the past and the evidence is there to support the hypothesis if one begins by discarding preconceptions and the "everyone knows" false data.
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