The lost city of Altantis

People also believed Troy was a fable before Heinrich Schlieman found TROY in 1870. He excavated 9 cities, one with large e'nuff walls told in Homer's story The Illaid.

But that it was TROY Schlieman found is NOT A FACT AT ALL

yup, too true I'm afraid...

they found a city that matches almost the geographical elements mentioned in the story, but from all the cities they ever found, either the size didn't make sense or it wasn't destroyed at all, or whatever.
Not a single layer fits the description

sorry, just warming up for my resit greek history 😉

what Schlieman found could very much be what Homer described as the city called Troy, so the place might be real. The Trojan war as Homer wrote it is fictional though. Of all the recorded stuff abouyt the wars with Spartans and Greeks it is kind of strange that Troy never got mentioned at all, they had a lot of war against minor Asia though so fact sometimes aspire story of fiction

but as of Atlantis we could have a similare thing as with Troy, a historical event that lead to a legend.
One of the events that might have inspired Plato is the eruption of the volcano on Santorini which created a tidal wave that destroyed the cosatal villages of the Minoan culture on Crete. Knossos that were situated inland survived the tidal wave but the volcanic ash covered and defoliated the island. This caused a famine which brought Knossos to a downfall and the remaining Minoans was overrun by the Mycaeneans of greece. End of an civilisation, and very much a candidate of the origin of the Atlantis Myth

to nitpick on troy again, finti, it is very difficult to get what Troy Homer wrote about but that's about it, should keep it ontopic 😖

hmm, finti, that Atlantis thing you wrote is the same as I wrote about the eruption on Thera 😖

Sorry Yers I overlooked your post there

pfff, who doesn't

true

Belief is in the eye of the beyond I guess.

maybe

There was a major world flooding at the end of the last ice age. Before this, the majority of the continentall shelfs were above water level, as well as a huge subcontinent in the indonesia/sundaland area (which was bigger than modern day india and bigger than modern day australia).
Many now believe that it was a volcano (krakatoa) on the sundaland subcontinent that erupted 11'600 years ago and spread its ash throughout the world, much of it landing on the polar glaciers, helping to melt the ice caps and bring an end to the last ice age. Although I dont believe that there was ever a place called 'Atlantis', I do believe that there were many pre-flood civilizations that were destroyed by the submergence, and that the most prosperous of these would have been in sundaland, as it would have been by far the largest lowland fertile land mass on the planet at the time. This was also the region in which a race of mini-humans were recently revealed to have been living up until the end of the last ice age, along with many other extinct lifeforms (including mini-elephants).

The whole idea of Altantis is cool.But we have yet to know if it is real or not.It could be or it could not be real.We may never know but it is still interesting never teh less.
See you around!JM

Found! 😉

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041115/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_cyprus_atlantis&e=5

I'm from Atlantis.

I would like to think there's a race of people living a completely different life underwater but there's not so I just let it go.

-AC

Lets blow Gjallarhorn (the horn blown to sound Ragnarok)

http://www.atlan.org/articles/atlantis2/
http://www.atlan.org/articles/checklist/

Most popular beliefs on locations of lost civilization:
1.Sundaland/Indonesia
2.San Tropini
3.Mexico (where circular irrigated canals have been found that resemble solon's description of them- about 9500 years old)
4.Crete/Thera
5.Mid-Atlantic Ridge/Azores
6.Incan Peru
7.Indus Valley
8.Antarctica

Heimdal is now blowing the horn

http://www.earth-history.com/Index.html

Finti, you said what I wanted to say (and I was preparing this stuff in my head all the way to your post). Anyway, the Minoan city of Akrotiri on Santorini (which was Thera) was destroyed when the volcano erupted and half the island imploded. The resulting tidal wave hit the Minoan civilisations on Crete which is 70 nautical miles away. Interestingly, they never found any human or even animal remains at Akrotiri which is still perfectly preserved due to the ash from the volcano. It is therefore believed that the Minoans at Akrotiri fled the island and ended up somewhere (probably dead - see tidal wave description). It was widely believed that this was Atlantis (see implosion detail). However, it has also been debated that Atlantis was close to Indonesia somewhere. There seems to be some kind of proof that a "great trek" took place over Siberia or Mongolia or something (shit, I really can't remember). So that's my piece of the puzzle.

If it helps at all, I once dreamt that I lived underwater and could breath normally without Scuba gear. Someone mentioned that somewhere.

Oh, Finti - The Palace of Knossos on Crete was destroyed three times before they were finally overrun. Not sure of the order here but the ash got them, a great fire broke out after an earthquake caused the pitoi (olive oil "jugs"😉 to fall over, and I think a flood pretty much wiped them out the last time. Writing on Minoan "tablets" called Linear B has still not been deciphered so no-one really knows what happened or how these people lived. They were a great civilisation though. I've been to Knossos, they even had flushing toilets and proper irrigation. This stuff is really interesting. Researchers have tried to piece together as much as they can but without understanding Linear B, this has been quite hard.