Scientist believes Atlantis found off Cyprus

Scientists claim they may have found the lost city of Atlantis.

From the Article:

The quest to find the lost city of Atlantis has begun in earnest off Cyprus's southern shores.

A US-led team of explorers claims the ancient city lies on the seabed between Cyprus and Syria.

With the aid of unique underwater maps, a US researcher claims to have assembled evidence to prove the mythological island of Atlantis really existed.

Using sophisticated sonar technology, California-based Robert Salmas says he has not only been able to pinpoint Atlantis to a sunken land mass off Cyprus's southern coast, but even discern its geographical features as described by Plato.

The alleged discovery has been greeted with barely concealed mirth by the Mediterranean island's tourism office.

I'm a bit of a skeptic, not of Atlantis so much, as any claim to have found it. For example, there has been growing evidence of an advanced civilization off the coast of Costa Rica, with discovery of very large, precisely carved spheres.

My suspicion is that there may have been a lot more 'civilization' than is currently historically recorded, possibly going back thousands of years before Babylon. We now know the Sphinx of Egypt was probably built sometime between 6000-8000 BC, thousands of years before the first Pharaohs. And it was in that time that the Sahara, once a lush forest was just becoming a desert.

Terrence McKenna is his book Food of the Gods, says that between 6000 and 15000 BC, the Sahara "forest" was home to a large scale matriarchal culture. The paleo-climatology evidence certainly supports the lush Sahara scenario. It makes sense in light of the Ice Age, which brought increase moisture and lower temperatures to those regions of the world. For example, the deserts of the southwest, including Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico were homes to great sprawling forests when the first Indians migrated to those regions.

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