quote:The team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology.
They believe they found evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor, including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill.
They say their discoveries match accounts of the city written by Plato.
'Greatest coincidence'
Team leader Robert Sarmast said the walls appear to be sited on a flat-topped hill where the temples of Atlantis once stood.
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Its the sixth time someone has claimed they've discovered Atlantis. I'm not sure if any of them have been underwater before.
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I remember that they found one with sattelite photography about a year ago in the Medeterranian.
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This sort of "find" is horrible for those of us who believe the myths and stories and seventeenth-hand accounts - it just gets our hopes up and then lets everyone else dash them.
It's also entirely possible I'm the only person who actually believes all that crap, as well...
Then again... maybe what they found is Atlantis. And perhaps firm evidence of the Trojan War is next. Followed closely by Shangri-La.
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I'd need to read the book, but the conflating of too myths, legends, or stories due to similarities between them is one I'm inherently skeptical of.
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I heward aboyut this, and I would liek to see their results from the next trip out there.
Has anyone ever read anything about Robert Ballards expidition to the Dead Sea? It is wonderful....they found the oldest ship in existance there, perfectlly preserved because of the acidity of the water.....
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Salinity, but we all knew that's what was meant, right?
I think it's cool. Someday they'll have all these submerged cities found, categorized and listed. Then, they'll fight over which one was Atlantis. It'll be fun. I'll bring the popcorn.
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They *thought* they found one underwater a few years ago in the mediterainian, I'm not sure if this is the same team. The news story was about a paragraph long... my favorite line was a quip from a travel agent about how a new tourist industry was already being set up about it Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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