Atlantis Discovered?

[Dr Richard H Thorndyke]

I walked into my local newsagent this morning to buy some milk (semi-skimmed) and saw this story on the front of the 'papers. Although this is the website version for obvious reasons!!


Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?

A "grid of streets" on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean.

By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 8:45AM GMT 20 Feb 2009

The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles off the coast of north west Africa near the Canary Islands on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an "aerial map" of a city.

The underwater image can be found at the co-ordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W.

Last night 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.

According to his account, the city sank beneath the ocean after its residents made a failed effort to conquer Athens around 9000 BC.

Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University told The Sun that the find was fascinating and warranted further inspection.

"The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato," the Atlantis expert said. "Even if it turns out to be geographical, it definitely deserves a closer look."

Bernie Bamford, 38, of Chester who spotted the "city", compared it to the plan of Milton Keynes, the Buckinghamshire town built on a grid design. "It must be man made," he said.

Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth, allows web users to virtually explore the ocean with thousands of images of underwater landscapes.

Launched earlier this month, it lets users swim around underwater volcanoes, watch videos about exotic marine life, read about nearby shipwrecks, contribute photos and watch unseen footage of historic ocean expeditions.

The legend of Atlantis has excited the public imagination for centuries. In recent years "evidence" of the lost kingdom has been found off the coast of Cyprus and in southern Spain.

Plato described it as an island "larger than Libya and Asia put together" in front of the Pillars of Hercules - the Straits of Gibraltar. He said Atlantis was a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty destroyed by earthquakes and floods 9,000 years earlier.


Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechn...off-Africa.html

Could this be the fabled lost continent?

[dam0]

Here is a clearer pic...it looks very interesting.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/new...255989.ece

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I read that it's claimed the grid like aberrations on the map are due the trails left by the cartography vessels using sonar to map the ocean floor in that area. :eyebrow:

[Hans Olo]

yeah, I don't buy the cartography vessel story.

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Quote:yeah, I don't buy the cartography vessel story.

It's sure strange if the phenomena has thus far remained unobserved considering all the mapping that has already taken place. Is there any evidence for this happening before?

[Hans Olo]

I don't know, I have never seen that before. The explanation is vague. They have to go all 90 degree angles, in a raster that is as great as a small country, should have taken taken them quite a long time... well, but it's possible I guess.

Atlantis, I don't think so, somebody with a chopper should have spotted it a long time ago, it's not that far from the coast to being missed.

Maybe it's something secret, like Area 52 or an underwater city for the rich. New Atlantis so to speak (ready in 2012).

I have one more idea, maybe it's a top secret US military base underwater, I mean.... and now somebody is embarassed..

[rsol]

google doent reveal everything. goto the south of england. just by Brighton the water is black.

hans your imagination is a wonder:)

Yeah its a top secret, thats why the SUN gets hold of the story.:)top journalists there:)

[Hans Olo]

I was just imagining things:)

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Quote:I was just imagining things:)

:D:D:D

[scaramanga667]

Quote:Maybe it's something secret, like Area 52

Is that one security level more secret than area 51?:P

Or is it this place?
http://www.wowwiki.com/Area_52

[Hans Olo]

yeah, sort of even more secure than Area 51!

[Shinobi]

Quote:google doent reveal everything. goto the south of england. just by Brighton the water is black.

hans your imagination is a wonder:)

Yeah its a top secret, thats why the SUN gets hold of the story.:)top journalists there:)

:D.. I sware they tell the truth squire! just look at page 3 ! :D