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The main options for the location of Atlantis
If we could collect all the versions about Atlantis, such a collection
it would be an invaluable historical contribution to the science of
human madness and fantasy.
F. Sumezil
Atlantic Ocean
It is absolutely clear from the text of Plato's dialogues that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to the priest, the Atlantean army "was on its way from the Atlantic Sea."
The priest says that opposite the pillars of Hercules there was a large island, larger than Libya and Asia combined, from which it was easy to cross "to the entire opposite continent" on other islands, in which America is easily guessed.
Therefore, many Atlantologists, especially those who believe the date of 9500 BC, believe that Atlantis was once located in the Atlantic Ocean, and traces of it should be searched either on the ocean floor or near existing islands that were high mountain peaks 11500 years ago.
The main hypotheses related to the Atlantic Ocean will be discussed in more detail below.
About two and a half thousand years ago, the strongest catastrophe in the history of mankind occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
The explosion of the Strongile volcano was three times stronger than the eruption of the Krakatau volcano.
This explosion generated a tsunami wave with a height of several tens, or even a hundred meters, which hit the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Scientists believe that this catastrophe was the cause of the death of the Cretan Mycenaean culture that existed 3,000 years ago.
It is not surprising that such a grandiose natural cataclysm attracted many researchers, some of whom came to the strange at first glance thought that when describing Atlantis, Plato described Tyre (where the Strongile volcano was located) or Crete.
I will also consider this second version, one of the two most popular, in more detail.
Iberian Peninsula The name of one of the first ten kings of Atlantis - Gadir has come down to our time in the name of the Gadir region.
Gadir is a Phoenician village, the current Kadiks.
This name gave rise to some Atlantologists to believe that the whole of Atlantis was located on the Iberian Peninsula near the mouth of the Quadalquivir River.
Near Gadir lay another famous city, Tartessos.
Its inhabitants were Etruscans and claimed that their state was 5,000 years old.
German X. Schulten (1922) believed that Tartessus is Atlantis.
In 1973, the remains of an ancient city were discovered near Cadiz at a depth of 30 meters.
There are now about a million Basques living in the north of Spain.
Their language is not similar to any of the known languages of the world.
There is a certain similarity between it and the languages of the American Indians.
This suggests that the Basques are direct descendants of the Atlanteans.
Brazil
In 1638, the English scientist and politician Francis Bacon of Verulam in the book "Nova Atlantis" identified Brazil with Atlantis.
Soon a new atlas with a map of America was published, compiled by the French geographer Sanson, in which the provinces of the sons of Poseidon in Brazil were even indicated.
The same atlas was published in 1762 by Robert Vogudi.
They say that at the sight of these cards, Voltaire was shaking with laughter.
Scandinavia
In 1675, the Swedish Atlanteologist Olaus Rudbeck argued that Atlantis was located in Sweden, and its capital was Uppsala.
According to him, this was clearly evident from the Bible.
Africa Herodotus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder and some other ancient historians write about the Atlantean tribe living in North Africa near the Atlas Mountains.
Atlanteans, according to them, do not dream, do not use names, do not eat anything alive and curse the rising and setting sun.
Based on these reports, P. Borchardt claims that Atlantis was located on the territory of modern Tunisia, in the depths of the Sahara Desert.
In its southern part there are two lakes, which, according to modern data, are the remains of an ancient sea.
The island of Atlantis was supposed to be located in this sea.
At the end of the XIX century, the French geographer Etienne Berlu placed Atlantis in Morocco, in the area of the Atlas Mountains.
In 1930, A. Hermann stated that Atlantis was located in the Shatt el Jerid lowland, between the city of Nefta and the Gulf of Gabes.
However, this territory does not fall, but rises...
German ethnographer Leo Frobenius found Atlantis on the territory of the Kingdom of Benin.
Other options
In 1952, the German pastor Jurgen Spanut discovered Atlantis on the island of Heligoland in the Baltic Sea.
In general, Atlantis was found in all parts of the Earth.
We will not dwell on these theories in detail, but it was found in Central America, in the English Channel (F. Gidon), in the Pacific Ocean, in Cuba, in Peru, in the United Kingdom, in the Great Lakes region in the United States, in Greenland, in Iceland, in Svalbard, in France, in the Netherlands, in Denmark, in Persia (Pierre Andre Latrey, France, XIX century), in Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Antilles (John McCulloch, Scotland), the Azores, in the Azov, Black, Caspian Seas, in Palestine and in many other places.
Atlantis.
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