The Search for Atlantis: A Lost City of Antiquity
• The search for Atlantis, an ancient civilization, is a significant quest.
• The city is believed to have had an incredible architecture, massive army, navy, and advanced society.
• The search is a potential turning point in modern archaeology, with the possibility of finding the greatest lost city of antiquity.
• The discovery of Atlantis could change history myth and reality, revealing the mother of all civilizations.
• scientists are using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar, underwater archeology, and historical sleuthing to search for Atlantis.
• The search for Atlantis begins with a fundamental question: what was Atlantis?
• The myth of Atlantis has been transformed by pop culture into a vague fantasy.
• The search begins with Plato's book, which is considered the gold standard for the myth of Atlantis.
• Plato's descriptions of Atlantis provide a proper checklist for the search, starting with the location of the lost city.
• The Pillars of Hercules, described by Plato, are believed to be the peaks that flanked the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
Archaeological Discovery of Atlantis' Lost City
• Archaeologists believe that the lost city of Atlantis is buried in the Guadalquivir River Delta, the largest marsh in southern Spain.
• George Bonzer and Alfred Shulton proposed that Atlantis was hidden under these mud flats for years.
• German physicist Rainer Kuhn used satellite photography to resurrect the theory in 2004.
• Dr. Koon observed strange circular patterns in a satellite photograph of the Dan Yana mudflats, matching the detailed descriptions in Plato's writings.
• Kuhn's theory has led to an archaeological expedition to determine if the anomalies detected from space point to man-made structures under the mud.
• The Spanish team, including anthropologist Juan Various, professor Richard Freund, and Paul Bowman, is investigating the possibility of man-made features under the mud.
• The team is trying to find a building or other artifact deep beneath the mud, dated to 4,000 years ago.
• Skeptics argue that Atlantis is a myth, but Freud suggests looking to the city of Troy, Turkey, which is one of the most storied cities of the ancient world.