Atlantis - installed accurate location. History

Reveal the "rock" error of Plato, critting (or solon), which led
To confusion with the position of Atlantis.

Atlantis did not disappear, it is and lies at the sea depth. About Atlantis a lot has been said, thousands of research materials are written. Historians, archaeologists, seekers are offered to six versions of the possible location around the world (in Scandinavia, in the Baltic Sea, in Greenland, North and South America, in Africa, Black, Aegean, Caspian Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, etc. ), but accurate place Not named. - Why such a confusion?

Starting to understand, we find one regularity that all proposals initially have bindings from one similarity, finding ancient times, a single description for which (which) subsequently "customized materials". As a result, nothing turned out. There is a similarity, and the Atlantis cannot find.

"We will go to another"!

With a different way with a different way, which in this case (judging by the well-known proposals), before anyone has not been applied. - Initially, take the exclusion method where Atlantis could not be. As the circle is narrowing, we will use all the "references-landmarks", which are offered an ancient Greek scientist, the sage (428-347 BC) by Plato (Aristoclon) in his works - "Timy" and "Crete". In these documents, the only description of the Atlantis, its inhabitants and historical events associated with the life of the legendary island is given in detail.

"Aristotle taught me to satisfy my mind, only those convincing me, and not just the authority of teachers. Such is the power of truth: you are trying to refute it, but your attacks themselves rise it and give it great value. " (XVI century, Italian philosopher, physicist, Mathematics Galileo Galilee).

So, let's start "chop ends." - Atlantis could not be in any far corner Peace and even in the Atlantic Ocean. The war (according to the story of the narrative) between Atlanes and Atlantis could not be anywhere, except in the Mediterranean Sea on this "patch of civilization" due to restrictions of human development. The world is great - but developed narrow. Athens simply could not with their army and the fleet to achieve the limits of Atlantis. Water and huge distances were an irresistible obstacle. - "This barrier was for people insurmountable, because ships and shipping did not exist then." (Plato, "Creation").

In an ancient Greek mythology, which arose many thousands of years later, the times of the death of Atlantis, the only (!) Hero Hercules (by Homer - the XII century BC) committed a feat, traveling to the most distant Western point of the world - to the land of the Mediterranean Sea. "When Atlantic Mountains appeared on the way at Hercules, he did not climb them, and his way through his way through, thus, having paved the Gibraltar Strait and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic. This point and served as a border for navigators in the ancient era, so in the figurative sense of "Hercules (Hercules) pillars", it is the edge of the world, the limit of the world and the expression to reach the Hercules pillars "means -" walk to the limit. " What the western limit reached Hercules ("the edges of the world") - was unattainable with the other mortal.

Thus, Atlantis was closer to the center ancient civilization - She was in the Mediterranean Sea. But where exactly?

Hercules pillars (according to the narration of Plato, followed by the island of Atlantis) in the Mediterranean, there were seven pairs! (Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bosphorus, Kerch Strait, mouth Nile, etc.). Pillars were located at the inputs in the straits and had the same names - Hercules (later Latin name - Hercules). Pillars served for ancient navigators landmarks and lighthouses.

Hercules pillars

- "First of all, briefly remember that, according to legend, nine thousand years ago there was a war between the people who lived on the side of the heraklovy pillars, and all those who lived on Suite: We have to tell this war ... As we have already mentioned, this was once an island exceeding the magnitude of Libya and Asia (not all of them geographic territory, Rather, the plots are hidden in ancient times), now it failed due to earthquakes and turned into an impassable Il, the marvelous path of the Morakhodam, who would try to swim from us into the open sea, and makes swimming unthinkable. " (Plato, "Creation").

This information about Atlantis, dated by the VI century BC. Coming from the Egyptian priest Timey from the city of Sais (on the coast of Africa, Western Delta Nile, the current name of the village of Sa Al Hagar). When Timy said that the barrier from the remains of the sunken Atlantis was blocked - "from us in the open sea", it clearly testified to the finding of Atlantis on the way from the Egyptian mouth of the Nile in the wide waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Hercules pillars in antiquity were also called the entrance to the main (Western) mouth Nile, called the mouth of Irakla, that is, Herculesov, where the city of Irakleum and the temple in honor of Hercules.

Over time, IL and the floating material from the sunken Atlantis opened through the sea, and the island itself went deeper into the puchin. "Since many great floods have happened for nine thousand years (namely, so many years have passed since the days before this day), the land did not accumulate in the form of any significant shallow, as in other places, but washed off the waves and then disappeared in the punching. (Plato, "Creation").

We exclude, impossible locations, further.

Atlantis could not be in the Mediterranean Sea north Islands Crete. Today in that area there is an obligational set of small islands scattered along the water area, which does not correspond to the narrative of flooding (!) And this very fact eliminates the entire territory. Moreover, the place to accommodate the Atlantis (according to the description of its size) in the sea north of Crete would not take.

Expedition of the famous researcher of the sea depths of the French scientist-oceanograf Jacques-Yves Kusto to the area of \u200b\u200bnorth of Crete on the periphery of the islands of Tira (Stronggele), Fera discovered the remains of an ancient sunken city, but it follows from the above that it rather belongs to another civilization than Atlantis.

In the Archipelago Islands Aegean Sea The earthquakes are known, the catastrophes associated with volcanic activities that led to the local lowering of the Earth and they occur on new testimonies in our time (for example, the sunken medieval fortress in the Aegean Sea near the town of Marmaris in the Bay on the Turkey coast).

Saving a search range, come to the conclusion, it remains that Atlantis could only be in one place against the mouth of the Nile - South and eastern Island Crete. She, there, today at the depth and lies, having fallen into a deep base of the sea. The failure of an almost oval water area with the shocks from the shores, horizontal wrinkles (from slaughtering) sedimentary rocks to the center of the "funnel" is well noticeable on the Internet Review of the Sea bottom of the sea from space. The bottom of the sea in this place resembles a pit, sprinkled on top of a soft sedimentary rock, no at the bottom of the solid "crust-mantle". He unenned the "bone" hole inside - on the body of the earth, "Tkni finger and falling up."

The Egyptian priest Timy, in the story about the location of the sludge from the flooded Atlantis, gives a binding to the heraklov pillars (nearest to him in the mouth of the West Nile). In another case (later), when describing the power of the power of Atlantis, it is about other pillars (as already above it is said in the Mediterranean there were seven). Later, when Plato identified the text of his essay on retelling, Timeya was not already 200 years old, and refine information about what pillars the conversation was going - it was not anyone. All subsequent confusion with the location of Atlantis originated from this.

"After all, according to the testimony of our records, the state of your (Athens) laid the limit of the audacity of the unmeasant military forces, sent to the conquest of all Europe and Asia, and the path of those who kept from the Atlantic Sea. [...] On this island, named Atlantis, there was an amazing largest and power of the kingdom, whose power extended to the whole island, to many other islands and part of the mainland, and above that, on this side of the strait, they mastered Libya Egypt and Europe up to Tirrenia (West Coast of Italy). (Plato, Timy).

The sea, washing the island of Atlantis (between Crete and Egypt), was called in ancient times atlantic, it was located in the Waterlife of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the modern sea, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian. Subsequently, due to an error in the binding of Atlantis not to Nielsky, but to the Gibraltar Pillar, the name "Atlantic" spread to the ocean for the strait. Once the inner Atlantic Sea due to the inaccuracies of the description (Plato, Crete or Solon) - became Atlantic Ocean. As the Russian proverb says: - "We got lost in three pines", (in seven pairs of pillars). When Atlantis went into the marine the abyss, and the Atlantic Sea was disappeared with it.

Time, the story of Atlantis, noted that the victory of Athens brought freedom from slavery to all other peoples (including the Egyptians), who was not yet involved in the Atlanta - "on this side of the heraklovy pillar" (speaking of itself - about Egypt).

"It was then that Solon, the state of yours pushing the world's brilliant proof of his valor and power: everyone, surpassing the firmness of the spirit and experience in a military business, it first faced the head of the Ellinov, but because of the treason of allies turned out to be granted himself, alone met With extreme hazards and still overcame conquerors and erected victorious trophies. Those who have not yet been enslaved, it saved from the threat of slavery; All the others, how much did not live on this side of the heraklovy pillars, it generously made free. But later, when the term for unprecedented earthquakes and floods came, for some terrible day, all your military force was absorbed by the explicit earth; Equally, the Atlantis disappeared, immersed in the punching. After that, the sea in those places began to up to this day by disadvantage and inaccessible due to the crosses caused by a huge number of Els, which left behind the landing island. " (Plato, Timy).

More than more can be clarified by the place of Atlantis from the description of the island itself.

"Poseidon, having received the island of Atlantis into the car ..., right here in which place: from the sea and until the middle of the island stretched the plain, if you believe legend, more beautiful than all other plains and very fertile." (Plato, Timy).

"First, it was said that all of this edge lay very highly and turned cool to the sea, but the whole plain surrounding the city (the capital) and herself surrounded by mountains, which stretched to the sea itself, was a smooth smooth, three thousand Stadiev (580 km.), and in the direction from the sea to the middle - two thousand (390 km.). All this part of the island has been addressed to the southern wind, and from the north is closed by the mountains. These mountains are praised by legend for the fact that they are in many, magnitude and beauty exceeded all the current. Plain ... It was an oblong quadrangle, for the most part straightforward. " (Plato, "Creation").

Capital of Atlantis

So, following the description - about the middle of the island stretched the rectangular plain 580 at 390 kilometers open to the south and closed from the north large and high mountains. Holding these sizes to the geographical map of the Atlantic Sea to the north of the mouth of the Nila, we get that the southern part of Atlantis could be brought to Africa (in the area of \u200b\u200bthe current Libyan cities Tobruk, Derna, Egyptian cities on the coast of West Alexandria), and its northern mountainous part could be ( But, not a fact) - Crete Island.

In favor of the fact that Atlantis in earlier times (than its mention in the ancient Egyptian papyrus), namely, tens of thousands of years ago was connected to Africa - says the narrative of the animal world of the island.

"Even elephants on the island found a great set, for the stern enough not only for all other living beings, inhabiting the swamps, lakes and rivers, mountains or plains, but also for this beast, of all the beasts of the largest and voracious." (Plato, "Creation").

It should be taken into account and the fact that with the end of the ice age, with the beginning of the melting of the Nordic glaciers, the World Ocean level rose by 50-70 meters and part of the sushi, once connecting Atlantis and Africa, was gradually flooded. Elephants and, by the way, people are the inhabitants of the island (by the name of their king Atlanta - Atlanta) who came here earlier from the depths of Africa remained surrounded by the sea. Atlanta were ordinary people of modern species, and not four-meter giants, otherwise the Athens would not overcome them. The island, isolated position of the inhabitants and prompted civilization to a separate (without wars and external enemies), active, advanced external warring barbarians - development (the benefit of everything you need).

On Atlantis (in its capital, like a hill extluous volcano) were hot springs mineral waterThis indicates the high seismic activity of the territory and the "fine" mantle of the earth's crust ... "Spring of the cold and spring of hot water, which gave water in abundance, and moreover, amazing both taste and healing strength." (Plato, "Creation").

I will not assume that it was the reason for the "internal icota of the Earth", as a result of which Atlantis per day, and later, even deeper, failed to the Mediterranean Both. It may have been a tectonic shift of plates, or the "blow" of a giant meteorite in North AmericaFrom which the Mexican Bay was formed and the result was an inertial "sigh" in the Mediterranean.

Perhaps (but, not a fact) that the island of Crete - the former Northern highest highlands of Atlantis did not fall into the abyss of the sea, and was kept on the "European mainland carnous". On the other hand, if you look at Crete on the map, then it is not on the very breakdown of the European mainland mantle, but about 100 km. From the hood of the Mediterranean (Atlantic) sea. This means that the catastrophic collapse of the Atlantis in the current coastline The Crete Islands was not, he only as an independent unit was included in the archipelago of Island Atlantis.

Historians, archaeologists write: - "Excavations in Crete show that even after four or five thousand years after the expected death of Atlantis, the inhabitants of this Mediterranean island sought to settle down from the coast. (Ancestral memory). The unknown fear drove them into the mountains. The first agriculture and culture centers are also located in some distance from the sea. "

On the proximity of the location of the Atlantis to the mouth of the Nile and Africa indirectly evidenced by the vast Wpadina Cattar (minus 133 meters below sea level) in the Libyan desert, in Egypt, 50 km. From the coast, as well as lowlands near Alexandria. These depressions indicate a common territorial trend towards sending.

What makes the accurate position of the position of Atlantis?

Perhaps not much. Wpadina Mediterranean is too deep (from 2000 to 4000 meters). Initially, the rising, and then settled on the bottom Il, the earth, subsequent sedimentation and landslide rocks were tightly covered by Atlantis. The Golden Capital with her inepent treasures in the temple of Poseidon was located only closer to Africa and was at the very depths (in the center of the depression). It is possible that in the southern part of the coast of Crete, something will bring, but it probably probably, since the South Cretan European mainland "protruding cornice" is literally "licked by the sea to bare stone," and everything that was from the Atlanta has long been Washed in a hood. Who will dig at the depths of the sea, who will look for a fallen "necklace in the Elle Volcano"? - Therefore, I did not find anything.

But inspires the only thing that confusion with the "heraklovaya pillars" is successfully allowed, and the place of finding Atlantis is finally established.

For the sake of historical truth, the Mediterranean Basin, at the bottom of which lies the legendary island (between the Islands of Crete, Cyprus and the mouth of the Nile) in memory of Atlantis, you can return its ancient name of the Atlantic Sea. This will be the first, important, global event in the search and find of Atlantis.

There is hardly a person who never heard a story about the mysterious island-state Atlantis. It existed or not?! And if yes, where it was located, who inhabited it and what happened to her?! All these questions, unambiguous answers to which still failed to find ...

The once described by Plato, Atlantis has been occupied by many centuries, the minds of historians, archaeologists, philosophers and esotericists. Moreover, the lack of scientifically confirmed evidence of the existence of this civilization does not stop its seekers and researchers.

Nattery Plato

For the first time on the island-state of Atlantis, Humanity told an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and Teacher Aristotle - Plato Athens (427-347 BC).

In his writings "Time" and "Crete", set forth in the form of dialogues between Socrates and Pythagorean Timem, Plato argued about the best state device. In the process of the dispute, the third participant was connected to the conversation - Athenian Creation Policy. He spoke about the Atlantis State War with the state. This critical story learned from his grandfather's santa, and he heard her in the retelling of the poet and Solon's policy, heard of this from the priests in Egypt.

According to Platon, 9000 years ago, Athens entered the war with an island state atlantis. "This island exceeded its sizes of Libya (Africa. - approx, aut.) And Asia, taken together." And Atlantis fell into athens to Athens. Frightened, the allies left the Athenians, but the bravers reflected the onslaught of Atlantov and defeated them. After that, the enslaved peoples were released, and the Atlantis itself launched a grand natural catastrophe, which not only killed all Atlanta, but also the army of Athenians. And also forever immersed this state to the seabed.

The philosopher describes the Atlantis as a flat length of 3000 stages (540 kilometers) and 2000 stages width (360 kilometers). The capital of Atlantis was located on the island-hill, located in 50 stages (8-9 kilometers) from the sea. To protect against the elements of Poseidon - the Atlanta Rifleer - fenced the hill with a city with three water and two land rings. And the Atlanta themselves moved through these rings bridges and cutting channels, so ships could swim directly to the capital.

"The island on which the palace stood ... as well as earth rings and a bridge width in Pletter (30 meters. - Approx. Avt.) The kings circled with circular stone walls and at the bridges at the aisle to the sea everywhere they put a towers and gates ..."

Plato described in such a detailed wealth, beauty and fertility of the island unprecedented by him, that the reader had a feeling that the author saw all this with his own eyes. At the same time, the philosopher reinforced the Atlantov in the fact that in them the divine nature lost the place of human greedy, sober and Gordin. Immptuted by this, Zeus decided to destroy the Atlanta and convened a meeting of the gods. At this, the Plato dialog is broken.

Islands in the ocean

Starting from the Renaissance, when the works of Plato again found their readers, the search for mysterious Atlantis was occupied by the minds of humanity. Since then, the versions of its location, as well as death, tens of tens and in the 50s of the 20th century even appeared the doctrine - Atlantology.

One of the dominant hypotheses of the arrangement of Atlantis is reduced to its search in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Hercules pillars. That is how the Greeks and Plato, including, called the rocks of Gibraltar and Seutu, between which Gibraltar Strait was located. Plato wrote that Atlantis was located in the west of Hercules pillars, opposite the Atlanta Mountains. Therefore, Atlantis should be not far from Gibraltar, between Spain and Morocco.

By the way, Morocco in the Greeks was the insanity of Titan Atlanta, on behalf of which the names of the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Range. The name of Atlantis is also formed from him - "Country Atlanta".

A number of researchers argue that the remains of the once mighty island are the Canary Islands. So, according to the theory of Atlantologists, Canaras are the remnants of the bridge, "peroxide" from Africa to Atlantis. However, the connection with the Atlantis according to the "Canary Bridge" was cut off even earlier than with Africa, which is traced in the terrain of the oceanic bottom.

In 2009, English Specialist in aerial photography of the seabed of Bernie Bamford made a statement that he saw Atlantis on one of the images of the Atlantic Ocean, in five hundred kilometers from Canary Islands.

At a depth of 5 kilometers, Bamford saw a rectangle consisting of grid intersecting lines. They seemed to him by the streets of the flooded city.

And the city, on Bamford, was superior to modern megacities and was equal in the area of \u200b\u200babout half of the Moscow region! However, the annular channels described by Plato were not visible in the picture with lines and rectangles. In addition, skeptics believed that these were not genuine lines, but the virtual directions of the sonar (devices used to detect and study underwater objects). Although the gaps in the Sonarov lines should not be, and in the picture they were.

The Atlantic Ocean was looking for Atlantis and Soviet oceanologists. In the 70s and 1970s of the last century in five hundred kilometers to the west of the Gibraltar Strait, in the area Azores, Underwater mountain Ampere scientific expeditions on the ships "Academician Petrovsky" and "Academician Kurchatov" found strange vertical structures, similar to the walls of the ancient city.

They performed from a layer of light sand and were also located at right angles, moreover, scientists noticed blocks separated by seams. But most importantly, the study of a piece of basalt from the top of the mountain showed that such a breed could only form on land for about 12 thousand years ago. What is fully fitted in the narration of Plato.

Eat mined

It is no secret that scientists consider monuments of writing with a fair fraction of skepticism and allow for the ancient authors a variety of hyperball and allegories.

Therefore, it seems quite reasonable that Atlantis had a prototype of the island of Crete with the highly developed mineral civilization that existed on it and partly destroyed by the volcanic explosion of Santorini island in the Mediterranean.

That's just the eruption of the volcano on Stronggile Island (Santorini - part of this giant island), which destroyed the little parents, occurred in the XVII century to our era. That is not for 9000, and maximum 1000 years before Plato. The eruption and earthquake first destroyed the foundation of the island, and the emerging giant tsunami covered north coast Crete (the greatest part of the island metropolis) a giant wave.

Fields that gave the Militans food resources were covered with volcanic ash, which made it impossible to process. And hunger tried the tragedy. At the same time, the wind rose with volcanic ashes bypassed Greece and Egypt - Middle Singer.

Given the unexpected advantage, the Ahetis (Population of Mainland Greece) landed on Crete and enslaved those who had no longer had the former relics of opponents.

Describing the capital of Atlantis, Plato mentioned the concentric channel, according to which the court fell and went out from there to the sea. Such a description is quite consistent with the island volcanic caldera with an annular shaft and a central island.

Another version comes down to the fact that Atlantis was located in the Black Sea region, and the Black Sea itself was still the inner lake. Presumably, in the VI Millennium BC, the Black Sea level catastrophically increased - during the year by 60 meters.

This happened as a result of the eruption of the volcano, the subsequent tsunami and the Bosphorus breakthrough and Dardanwell by the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The same version of scientists explain the biblical legend of the World Flood. Moreover, the flooding of huge territories expelled the local population to Europe and Asia, where, together with them, came about the deceased state.

Interestingly, the Romanian researcher Nikolai Densushany, without refusing Atlantis in the Black Sea location, believes that it was on the territory of modern Romania. He believes that the Nizhnylandunai Plain corresponds to the description of the Central Plain of Atlantis. It has a rectangular shape of 534 at 356 kilometers (3000 per 2000 stages). Atlas Mountains in this case are the Southern Carpathians, and the problem with the island of Romanian decides that Plato could easily mix the terms "River" - "Sea" - "Ocean" and "Island" - "Country".

Antarctica, Andes and Tibet

A rather large number of atlantologists are inclined to the version that Atlantis was located on the territory of Antarctica.

As arguments, supporters of this version lead a map of Piri Risa, created in Turkey in 1513 on the basis of ancient cards. According to it, Antarctic was located near the equator, but as a result of the lithospheric shift was moved to the South Pole. True, this version does not withstand criticism from the point of view of geology.

Other supporters of finding Atlantis in Ice refer to the fact that the island, although not located near the equator, had a completely comfortable climate. And the collision of the Earth with a huge meteorite of 10-15 thousand years ago caused the displacement of the earth's axis. As a result, Atlantis moved to the South Pole.

But modern science has proven that it is impossible to move the earth's axis very quickly, and the scientific data on the icing of Antarctica speaks what happened to other periods of time.

As already mentioned, humanity began to look for Atlantis in the era of the Renaissance. In this regard, the book "The History of Opening and Conquering Province of Peru" is of interest, created in 1555 by the secretary of the Royal Council of Castile Agustina da Sarat. The author writes that the Platonovsky 9000 years from the Flood is 750 ordinary years, since the Egyptians for the years for the year they took into account the current month.

In favor of finding Atlantis in Andes, the civilization of the South American Indians had high achievements that inherited from another, more ancient civilization. However, the hypothesis about the transfer of knowledge to Indians regularly pop up in other pseudo-contaminated theories.

William Scott-Elliot in the "History of Atlantis" (1896) writes that Atlantis ultimately broke into two large Islands. One of them was the name of Diyat, the other - the root, which later decreased to the last residue known as Poseidonis.

The famous Russian ophthalmologist and researcher anomalous Ernst Muldashev, who had been in Tibet many times, argues that Atlantis existed in the district of Himalayas and Tibet at a time when the whole earth was covered with water. The climate of the island was soft, and the Atlanta had access to high technologies, with the help of which produced the necessary energy. They died, according to Muldashev, as a result of hitting the land of comets of Typhon.

Plato is my friend but the truth is dearer

Despite the abundance of versions and even some artifacts, most of the serious scientists are inclined to the version that, writing a story about Atlantis, Plato created only the philosophical myth and nothing more. Unlike Aristotle, Plato never burdened his reader with real facts, but threw many reasons that could wake up the imagination.

However, today, all the facts specified in Plato's narration are refuted by archaeological data. Neither in Greece, nor in the west of Europe and Africa, nor at the end of the Ice and Post-Dealerians, nor in the next millennium, archaeologists could not find traces of highly developed civilization.

Tartes Necklace: Some researchers believe that the disappeared people of the Tart Wessi residents in Spain were descendants of Atlanta.

At the same time, Atlantologists often do not want to perceive suitable arguments and focus on the "unverified" part of the plato's narration. In particular, the emphasis is placed on the secret knowledge of the Egyptian priests. At the same time, in the texts of the Ancient Egyptian papyrus themselves, nothing is found, even though distantly coinciding with the story of Plato. Also, the philosopher uses in his story the Greek names of characters and names, while the Greeks, describing real events, always wrote identical names.

The most believable version of the appearance of the Myth about Atlantis is the assumption that Plato used two real cases from history. The first is the defeat and death of the Athenian army and the fleet when trying to conquer Sicily in 413 to our era. The second is the destruction of the tsunami city of Geliki on Peloponnese in 373 to our era.

For several centuries, the ruins of the geliki were visible from the thickness of the water. The myth of Atlantis was needed by Plato to illustrate its political ideas and philosophical views.

And in order not to have any questions about where this island was located, Plato "destroyed" him many thousands of years ago. But the descendants do not want to accept the fact that Atlantis existed only in imagination.

Alexey Martov

Finding the remains of previous land civilizations at all times was considered one of the most intriguing secrets of modern humanity. The most extensive studies on this issue were conducted in search of the remains of the legendary Atlantis, but in vain. The question arises whether island state actually?

Who did Plato wrote about?

IN modern world There is no historical riddle, which would be devoted to as many scientific research, books, documentary and artistic films as searching for the mythical Atlantis. The first of its existence of mankind told the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the student of Socrates himself. Considering its influence and popularity in ancient GreeceDoubt the words of the famous philosopher do not have to. According to Plato's statements, the island state existed more than 12,000 years ago and sunk during the natural cataclysm. In the event that the remains of Atlantis will be discovered, humanity reliably learns about how the ancillary civilizations of the planet lived, which possessed knowledge and technologies. The most interesting thing is that today it is not worth the question existed at Atlantis really. It is only necessary to determine which of cities found at the World Ocean found, are historical Atlantis.

Poseidon city

As for what features, researchers recognize Atlantis, you can understand, familiarizing yourself with the legend of her mythical Creator Poseidon. By legend, falling in love with the usual earthly woman named Kleito, the God of the Seas Poseidon decided to build for her sea island a beautiful city. After long searches, the god of the seas opted his choice on the island titled Atlantis, intense with beautiful face, high people. It is on their land that Poseidon erected a majestic city, consisting of alternating five rings of water and sushi interconnected by wide channels. The entrance to them from the sea was guarded by two watchdog towers and a wall closed from red, white and black stones. In the center of the city at the Helle of Cleitito, Poseidon created a magnificent palace, in which the uteuchs were pronounced with his beloved. Subsequently, the children of God of the seas, born from the glitito, were built in honor of the Father the temple, decorated with his giant statue of pure gold. At it, Poseidon controls the chariot with hidden horses. It is assumed that it is precisely megalithic buildings and a statue of Poseidon, researchers will have to determine the location of the legendary Atlantis.

Atlantis found in Cuba?

In order to define the famous island state in detail in addition, it is necessary to discard all the dubious versions of Atlantis: Black Sea coast, in the center of the Mediterranean, in Pacific Ocean And even in Antarctica. It is unlikely that the ancient Greek scientists were so uneducated to confuse the sea and oceans, describing the place where the island state was. And absolutely accurately famous philosophers of ancient Greece would not compose Atlantis, as some researchers say about it. The most amazing thing is that five years ago the alleged remains of Atlantis were found, and exactly where it was located Plato - in the Atlantic Ocean in the center of the Bermuda Triangle.

Pyramids built Atlanta?

The detection of the remains of Atlantis in 2012, humanity is obliged to two researchers of Semi Weinzweiga and Paulina of the Bulitski. After serious theoretical calculations, scientists decided to test their conclusions in practice. With the help of deep-water apparatuses operating offline, they investigated in detail the area of \u200b\u200bthe Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Cuba. The results of the work of the devices exceeded all their most bold expectations. Underwater photographs appeared on the world, at which researchers were surprised by gigantic pyramids, several sphinxes, as well as many other megalithic buildings and structures. The ruins of the ancient city were at a depth of about 180 meters. The distance is not critical for modern automatic Batiskof. The use of special equipment will allow to explore the flooded buildings in sufficient detail, which will surely hide many amazing artifacts.

What ruined the ancient city?

According to scientists, Atlantis was flooded during the end of the glacial period, when the most powerful streams of water jerked from the poles towards the equator. Not one Atlantis suffered. In those years, many large foci of human civilization instantly disappeared under water. Unfortunately, the outstanding scientific technologies of Atlanta could not protect their island state from the rampant of the element. However, the modern civilization of people at the existing level of scientific and technological progress also could not do it. Numerous storms and hurricanes, periodically incurring in the United States and the state Central America, eloquently prove it. The catastrophe, who sent the Atlantis to the bottom of the ocean, occurred approximately 12,900 years ago. Nevertheless, the island state was not completely under water. Modern Atlantologists, relying on the opening of the floor of Weintsweig and Powlins of the Slitski believe that Cuba is the surviving part of Atlantis.

What did the Atlanta look like?

Despite the irrefutableness of underwater findings, supporters of the Atlantis location in other parts of the world, it is fairly requested additional evidence. The desire is quite logical and necessary facts were provided to them. First, as it is known, the existence of ancient state, humanity learned from the works of Plato "Timy" and "Crete". Completing the description of the city-island given in literary monuments and the location of the underwater ruins off the coast of Cuba, scientists found that they are completely identical. But this can not be said, not about one other estimated location of Atlantis. Secondly, the civilization of Olmekov, in ancient times the territory of Central America in the legends of this nation occurs from the island with the speaking name of Atlanticu. Comments as they say unnecessary. Thirdly, the Institute of Anthropology of the United States, who studied the civilization of Olmekov in detail: writing and patterns of this people entirely coincide with the discovered researchers at the bottom of the ocean. The mythological texts of Olmekov also indicate their origin from the mainland, sunken as a result of a natural cataclysm caused by an earthquake and a sharp rise in water. To date, there is no doubt that the underwater city off the coast of Cuba is and there is a legendary Atlantis, which actually existed. Today, studies of the sunken city continue. Let's hope: Soon, humanity will receive a lot of additional evidence of the real existence of Atlantis.

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A few years ago, I would probably be in mind that a fetan disk with myth, which was presented at the time of Atlantis. However, everything changed: she is no longer a myth! The myth became a hypothesis, in support of which the forces of dozens of researchers who are all new and new indisputable data were united. Today, there are already so much that without the evidence of Plato, we ourselves would now have now the picture of the ancient Atlantic with the archipelago of the islands, connecting her shores and starting with the Hercules pillars.

I suppose you should familiarize yourself with these data to make sure how real was the very existence of this country and it is possible to directly with our hypothesis. And I will start with general approval: as science showed, there is nothing unchanged in our knowledge about the world. Progress of science in constant rejection of previous knowledge. For a long time, there are no immutable truths and no indisputable facts. A look at the problems and objects of study is sometimes subject to a fixed change. Actually, the only principle worthy of a man of science is now the willingness to take the most unexpected explanations of the phenomena, it would seem once already fulfilled.

As an example, we turn to the past of a person to tell yourself straight, without the offensive: the whole genealogy of the human race, which, with such a diligence, jerked in us self-confident or unscrupulous scientists, was just a speculative construction on paper! Tutorials still say that a million years ago we supposedly descended from the trees. Meanwhile, the last discoveries in Africa showed the existence of meaningfully made flint guns for 3.5 million years to us.

All imaginary "intermediate links" between monkey and Homo Sapiens, such as adored by paleontologists, often, alas, to the fame of them, return to their places in the animal world. And it began after in Tanzania, they found more ancient or equal to them by age quite human remains and pests of feet feet, no different from ours. And then, several real scientists dared to publicly express their conviction that the "bone material of evidence" collected by decades are far from the completeness, dated, is not sufficient, dubious, and even falsified. Finally, it is "something", presented as a ancestor of a person, may well be simply a parallel branch. In short, the science in her present state does not say little about the past of a person. Thus, the ancient cultures "got" over thousands of more millions of years on their historical development. If our immediate ancestor, for 10 thousand years, managed to move from the stone pestle to the electronic microscope, then the question arises: what, his African predecessor, with just as delicate hands and the same volume of the brain, was to spend 3.5 million years old, so nothing And without reaching? ..
And here in our past, an incredibly long-term, unbelief period was opened, for which such cultures could have been flourished and successful and to die! Most likely, they were precisely such as they did not leave us rusting dumps and plastic dumps.

In this incomprehensible past, there is quite enough space for Atlantis.
As stated by Plato, on the islands of Atlantis, "it was easy to move to other islands, and from the islands - on the whole opposite mainland, which covered the sea that really deserves such a name (after all, the sea on this side of the said Strait is only a bay with A certain narrow passage to it, while the sea on the other side of the strait is the sea in his own sense of the word, as well as the land of his truly and quite rightly be called the mainland). "

It is amazing this early mention of America; And it does not look like a literary fiction. But no less remarkably mention of the chain of the islands. Plato at one time could not know about the Atlantic that we know today: during the last glaciation, the water level was below 120-200 meters, and this one meant that the surface of Azor, Madeira, Green Cape Islands, Bermuda and Bahamas - Many times more than the present. These were large islandsAnd their shallow-water continental shelf, a very facilitating navigation, has occupied huge spaces.

Little-known testimony of Henrich Schliman, the famous Troy Owner (by the way, it has already been opened again, in another place). He argues that during his stay in St. Petersburg, I found and read the Egyptian papyrus stored in the Hermitage, which says the following:
"Pharaoh sent an expedition to the West to search for traces of the continent of Atlantis, from which the Egyptians's ancestors arrived 3350 years ago, which brought with them all the knowledge of the native country."

Interestingly, Aristotle, who rejected Plato's message, argued that the Phoenicians and Carthaginians knew about the Big Island in the west of the Atlantic, which they called Antilla.

This name is very close to the Greco-Roman Atlantis (so called the deceased island or continent).

So if we prove the existence of this "islands chain", it will be reliable not only atlantis, but the ambiguity will also disappear in the problem of the settlement of America. The "Siberian Way" through the bands of the experiencing does not explain everything entirely in time nor the ethnic composition of South American peoples. Some of them, such as Mexican Olmeki with disadvantages, the creators of the oldest culture in this country, profits (according to Professor Angeja Verchinsky), from the Ibero-African region. Such a resettlement would be very dubious, do not escape the transatlantic island chain. The cradle of a number of other American tribes with obviously Indo-European ethnic features could not be seen on Atlantis.

Ancient sources are filled with numerous mentions of the invasion to Europe and Africa "Marithe Peoples" from the West. The inhabitants of this region have retained legends, recordings and even some ruins are traces of these invasions from the sea. Egyptian chronicles mention the mysterious attacks of the "Sea People". Irish legends narrate on the frekores who arrived from the Atlantic. About the attacks committed thousands of years ago, testify the ruins of the ancient stone fortresses. And what is interesting: these stones are traces of high temperature. The Atlantic Coast of Spain and France is also full of ancient ruins that have been overwhelmed by their legends about the attacks from the west in time immemorial.

The ancient galls, Irish, Welsh and other Celtic tribes were convinced that their ancestors came from the continent, which sank in the "West Sea". Welshov called him avalon.

Basic, representing a completely mysterious racial and linguistic "island" in the southwestern France and Northern Spain, and to this day they believe that they are the descendants of the Atlantis, which is called the Atlantic. In Portugal, the belief is also common in Portugal that Atlantis was near this country, and the Azores are her remnants.

The indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands still call them the old name - Atalaya, and the first aliens from the continent were presented as distant descendants of the few ancestors who survived during the Great Catastrophe.
Vikings argued that Athi was a wonderful country in the West. For ancient Arabs, the first civilization existed on the "Hell's Continent in the West Ocean". What is there, even the ancient Indian texts of "Purana" and "Mahabharata" mention Atalla, White Island In the West Ocean, "removed from India on Polimyr.

And so on and so forth. Many of these traces of the past are also in America. For example, in Venezuela, the conquistadors came across the selection of "white people", called the Atlan. However, the other tribes conquered by them told about their coming because of the sea, from the places, in the title of which the soundness of ATL was repeated.
Renal cultural similarities on two continents. Already the first Spaniards heard about things that are beautifully known for them by the traditions of the Middle East, in the Bible and other texts: about the great flood, which was survived by the unnoticed chosen and their animals; About construction " high Tower In order to avoid another flood; about repentance and deliverance from sins; On the communion in the form of bread, perceived as the body of God, and also about the cross, which turned out to be an oldest image of the Tree of Life.

The Indians, in turn, have long expected the arrival of the Spaniards and predicted the return of the "White Gods" with an accuracy of the year, which many centuries ago brought them civilization, and then sailed to the east.

What else struck the Spaniards and amazes us so far, this is the use of words in the ancient languages \u200b\u200bof old world. So, for example, in Aztec Naathle there is the word Theoacilli (Toyosash), meaning "house of the gods", and in Greek - Theou Kalia (Theou Calia) - "God's house". Another word of language Naathille Tepee (TEPEE), that is, the "hill", sounds almost like tehe (tehe) - "elevation" on Turkic languages. Indian "Potomac" (River in the USA) and numerous names of other rivers, starting with Pot, resembles a distant Greek Patomas (Potomos) - "River". There are too many transatlantic linguistic similarities to consider them random. Here are some more examples from hundreds of others:

The list of such similarities can be continued. Of course, he excludes some randomness. These words are listed beyond the ocean. We do not know how long ago and how. It is believed that this was made by Asian hunters and collectors who migrated from Siberia, perhaps 50 thousand years ago. The oldest bone remains of people on the territory of the United States are dated to the 40th millennium to our era. Promotion of tribes through Bering Strait to Alaska, and then through the lands of the current Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America to Peru, Chile, Argentina and Fire Earth lasted Millennium, and during this time, before the deserts, mountains, jungle and prairie were overcome, Hundreds of generations changed. Well, we assume that the life expectancy of people of those times on average was 25 years old - this means for 1 thousand years - 40 generations, and for 40 thousand years - about 1600 generations. This is so much that the ancient live speech has changed completely, forming the current mosaic almost uncorrectly differing Indian languages.

It is difficult to agree that some Siberian tribe 40 thousand years ago used the word MEO (LEO), "Saint", and it was listed for actekam, and then - to the Greeks and at the same time did not change for 1600 generations ... and the word ball (Bal) "Ax", in the Sumer and the three-quarters of the paths around the earth of the Arakans from them? Oh, and unlikely.

The ethnic composition of the peoples of America tells us another solution. Although in the total mass of the inhabitants of the new light, undoubtedly inherent in Asian traits, there are, however, the islands of races with non-eye-friendly and Indo-European ethnic properties, and their presence cannot be explained by Siberian migration. They with their tongues reached America from the old light in a different way.

On this, the riddles do not end. One major connoisseur of Sanskrit at my request analyzed some words of the Nasthal language, with whom I associate biochemical values. And what turned out? They have Sanskrit roots and with the same meaning as in Mexico!

For example, the name of the Olllin sign (Ollin) "Movement" in the usual, everyday value - symbolizes a double chromosome. On the Vedic Sanskrit root "Il" (and) really means "move", "move", but also "speak"! From here, Illlin (ILLIN) is "endowed with movement and speech", that is, "information"! And those two sticks that are drawn in the cell sign really carrying genetic information and "pass from the cell to the cell."

There is too little place here in order to consider this problem in more detail, so I will only remind you that both Americans are replete with names, undoubtedly emanating from Vedic Sanskrit - "Speech of Gods". But as possible, if Sanskrit arose in the records of 3.5 thousand years ago, and the Asian languages \u200b\u200b"penetrated" to America at 10, 20, 30 centuries earlier? It suggests only one answer: someone taught the peoples in America, and in India, and in the Middle East, and in the Hercules Pipples area. And performed his mission nearby - Atlantic. This "someone" disappeared from the face of the earth along with his country.

We now turn to the direct evidence of the existence of Atlantis. They became the deep-water discoveries made lately due to the development of immersion techniques and underwater research. On the sea shelf of the Azores, Canary, Bahamas and Bermuda islands, the scuba lashes discovered and photographed numerous stone walls, platforms and stairs, laddered by a person's hand for thousands of years ago.

Approximately 300 miles west of Gibraltar lies the underwater ridge of sunken mountains, towering 5 kilometers above the surrounding depths and not reaching about 200 meters to the surface of the water. Located by semicircle, they got the name "Horseshoe".

This horseshoe attracts great attention to numerous seas researchers. Expeditions under various flags took there geological samples of the bottom, the bottom flora and fauna, which brought more interesting results.

Researchers with amazement found at a depth of several hundred meters of specific "wrinkles" of the bottom. These are sand shafts, the surface of which is covered with small wavy wrinkles formed exclusively in coastal areas where sea \u200b\u200bwaves Run to the shore and roll with powerful streams, carried away the particles of sand. Cliffs are also discovered - coastal cliffs, designed by the waves of the surf. So irrefutable evidence was obtained that whole areas of the horseshoes were once land.

But the present sensation turned out to be photographs of the sunken plane of the ampere lying around 70 meters below the surface of the water. Made their Soviet oceanographic expedition at the Academician Petrovsky Research Ship in January 1974. Its participant, V.I. Marakuev, an underwater survey specialist, among thousands of pictures "caught" those that were so sensational that the word "Atlantis" immediately fell on the first bands of the newspapers around the world.

On one of the photos shows a fragment of a wall with a height of about one and a half meters and a length of about two, folded from stone blocks connected by a ligament. On the other - the same wall from above. The photograph allows you to determine the wall thickness of approximately 0.75 meters, as well as see the seams connecting the processed blocks. The third photographs are viewed by five steps, part of the injured lava, and the fourth is a stone platform from flat plates.

In the light of these and many other finds today it is already impossible to deny that the Atlantic hides the remnants of some kind of human civilization. The oldest legends about the "people of the sea" and their buildings were seriously confirmed in real reality.

Geologists, who challenged the bottom of the bottom in various parts of the Atlantic, collected a whole collection of volcanic rocks, which, without any doubt, solidified and crystallized in the atmosphere, outside the waters. Their age does not exceed 15 thousand years. So it can be considered proven that in those days, significant areas of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean were the earth's surface.

Another testimony gives us the theory of drift of the continents of Vegener. The coast of old and new light, once confined a single whole, visually bind on the map. Eastern shores Brazil and Argentina correspond to the Western banks of Africa. Greenland stretches to Norway, Florida to Liberia. There is also a geological compliance on both sides of the ocean. Everything is here in place. For one exception: from this mosaic, a piece disappeared to be located in the southern part of the Northern Atlantic. But he is there and is located. Only under water! And in the very place where most of the legends will prevent Atlantis.

Nature remembers about her. Remember the birds. Sailors and fishermen report a striking phenomenon observed south of the Azores. It turns out that migratory birds during winter migrations from Europe in South America begin to circle so low above the sea, as if looking for places to land. Not finding land, fly further, but a lot of weak birds falls on the water. This is repeated here and in the spring during the reverse flight. It seems that the birds are instinctively looking for that land on which flocks were rested.

A similar story and butterflies. View of SA1Resch, inhabitant on the North Coast South AmericaIt seems that "remembers" about some kind of land, once speaking out of the water to the north-west of Guyana. Every year, the males of this butterfly take a massive departure to the ocean and there are whole clouds in the water.

As for the possibility of lowering the extensive areas of sushi to a significant depth, then here a lot has become cleared in recent years. Acquaintance with the peculiarities of the seabed, the movement of continental plates, as well as "programming" of probable collisions in ancient times globe With giant cosmic bodies, it allows you to scientifically substantiate several reliable hypotheses of the immersion of Atlantis to the ocean. One of them, which takes into account extremely many data from various areas and based on solid chronology and calculations, was developed by Dr. Emilio Spendicato, a physicist, a professor at the University of Bergham in Italy, - the materials according to it are kindly provided to me by Dr. Yan Blogzka from the Polish Academy of Sciences.

This hypothesis considers the catastrophic disappearance of Atlantis in accordance with the message of Plato. It is largely confirmed by photographing from satellites of craters, which appeared due to the collisions of the Earth with major meteorites, some crater (for example, in Brazil, which 220 million years old have a diameter of several tens of kilometers. Crater in Canada (Labrador Peninsula) has become a reservoir of Manicoagan, in size comparable, he is comparable to Copernicus Crater on the Moon. Similar craters, of course, much more at the bottom of the oceans.

Such collisions were to lead on Earth to innumerable long-term consequences: colossal geological, gravitational and magnetic disorders, climatic changes, catastrophic for the planet.

According to Platon, the death of Atlantis occurred 9 thousand years before him, that is, about 11.5 thousand years ago, counting from our time. Professor Spendicato became interested in what happened during the period on the entire planet. And what? It was then that ended the last glaciation on earth. The scientist calculated that a meteorite with a diameter of about 1, 4 kilometers and a density of 3, 3 grams per cubic centimeter crashed into the ground in the Atlantic area, near the Great Island, at a speed of 25 kilometers per second. The released energy corresponded to the explosion of millions of megaton hydrogen bombs. Even at a distance of 10 thousand kilometers from the shock point, the temperature rose by 30 degrees, and the winds at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour dulled for 14 hours.

As a result of this collision, a funnel was formed with a depth of 6 and a diameter of 15 kilometers. Since the ocean was then not so deeply as now, the crater appeared in its day and the earthquake occurred, most likely caused the release of liquid magma. Then instant filling of a colossal crater thrown and dropped back water formed a gigantic wave of a kilometer height, which even at a distance of 1 thousand kilometers walked 100-meter wall. The thermal blow led to the explosive evaporation of huge mass of water, saturation of the atmosphere and long-term rains throughout the land. As a result, the biblical flood, which led to many nations of the world. Due to the greenhouse effect, the temperature on the planet rose so much that the rapid melting of glaciers began and, as a result, improving the world's level of 120 meters.

Atlantis (Greek: ἀἀΛανὶςὶς νῆσος, Atlntis Island) - the mythical island state, first mentioned and described by the classic Greek philosopher Plato in the dialogues of Timy and Crete. About what Atlantis is and where it is, argued from the first mention of it. This concept represents a variety of ideas: for some it is an object of archaeological surveys, waiting for its discovery, lost source of supernatural knowledge and strength or, perhaps, nothing else, as a philosophical treatise on the danger of civilization in the desired development. Whether Atlantis really was, or it's just Plato's fiction, probably will never be known. Nevertheless, the idea of \u200b\u200bits existence continues to inspire and intrigue many, the second wishes to achieve the era of prosperity or return to it.

The origin of myth

The description of Atlantis Platon, which is considered first, is found in the dialogues of Timy and Crete, written in 360 BC. e. In the reduction style of dialogue, the author conveys its history through the conversation of criste and hemocrat politicians, as well as Socrates and Timeus philosophers. The island state tells Krism, first in Timea, briefly describing the huge empire "for Hercules of Hercules", defeated by the Athenians after she tried to conquer Europe and then criste moves to a detailed description of a powerful civilization. The politician claims that his stories about the ancient Athens and Atlantis flow out from the visit to the Egypt of the Athenian lawmaker Solon in the sixth century BC. e. There he met a priest from Saa, who translated the history of ancient states recorded on papyrus to Greek.

The narration of Egyptian priests

The story told by the priests, Solon was unknown. According to the records, the Athensian warned against the rulers of Atlantis about nine thousand years ago and won it.

The ancient and powerful kings of the mythical island have formed a confederation with the help of which they managed to them and other islands. Starting the war, the rulers sent troops to Europe and Asia. To resist this attack, the Athenians formed the NEGREIC UNIGER. In the first difficulties, he collapsed, and the Athenians waged war alone. The invasion was stopped, and then Egypt and other countries conquered by the rulers of Atlantis were released.

Shortly after the victory, even before the return of Athenian home, the island state underwent catastrophic earthquakes and floods, until it disappeared under water. According to legend, all the bravers were absorbed in one day and night of horror. That is why the Egyptians did not thank the Athenians.

In addition, Plato describes the story of Atlantis, which shows how the rulers reached such a state when they wanted to conquer the whole world. The story was recorded solon and passed in his family from generation to generation.

Divine redist

According to Solon's records, the history of the mythical island began at the beginning of time. It was then that the immortal gods divided the world among themselves and everyone managed its part. God Poseidon went to Atlantis. Where she is, not specified, but it was an island, the dimensions of which were more than Libya and Asia, combined. He chose a death woman in his wife and he founded the dynasty of state rulers.

Poseidon and Clayut

Poseidon built a house on a high hill, in the very center of the island. The structure was elevated above the fertile plain, bordered by the sea. To protect his beloved wife, Poseidon with ease and divine art surrounded her house with five concentric rings of water and soil. Hot and cold keys beat out of the ground. With the development of the city, its residents never felt a shortage of water.

Cleuto gave birth to Poseidon Ten sons, five couples twins. Atlant, the first son of the first couple, became the Lord of the Huge Earth of his Father. His brothers were appointed by archons, each of whom managed most of this territory. The most valuable part of the kingdom was the home of the mother on the top of the mountain and the land around it. Atlanta had many sons, and the throne moved the oldest of them.

Peaceful prosperity

Throughout many generations, Atlantis remained peaceful and flourished. Almost all the needs of the population were provided by the shocks, fields and forests of the island. All that was not produced was imported. It became possible because the channel was built through all the rings from the ocean to the center of the kingdom, Acropolis, where the royal palace stood near the house of Poseidon and Cleito. Each subsequent ruler tried to surpass his predecessor in creating a greater kingdom. Finally, the magnificent metropolis and the outside city spread for a large outer wall.

Poseidon laws

Poseidon established the laws of Atlantis, who rulers had to follow. The ruling authority was to meet regularly. He consisted of ten representatives of the first rulers - Atlanta and his brothers, who possessed the absolute authority over the life and death of their subjects. Meetings occurred in the temple of Poseidon, where the first rulers have drawn laws on the Orihalkovaya Pillar. First of all, in accordance with the requirements of the ancient ceremony, the archons exchanged gifts. Then the sacrifice of the sacred bull took place. Blood was mixed with wine and poured into the fire as an act of purification. The rulers were served in golden cups, they made the clock over fire and swore to make a decision in accordance with the prescribed laws. Everyone drank wine and dedicated his bowl of the temple. Then he followed the dinner for which the participants had to go into magnificent blue clothes. They allowed them to questions regarding the kingdom, in accordance with the laws of Poseidon.

Court of God

As long as the rulers were tried and lived according to the laws of Poseidon, the state flourished. When the laws began to forget, trouble arose. The rulers began to marry mortals and behave like unreasonable people. They were covered by pride, and they began to fight for the greater power. Then Zeus saw what happened: the rulers refused the laws of the gods and began to act at the same time with people. He gathered all the Gods of Olympus and was going to make a decision about Atlantis. At this, Plato's story ends.

Fact or fiction?

It was done intentionally or not, no one knows. Just like no one knows, believed Plato into the real existence of the island, or it was pure fiction. Many are convinced that the author who used many details in his description believed in it. Others reject this, claiming that precisely because the story is a pure Plato invention, he was able to come up with so many details as he wanted. Also in question its dating. According to Solon, the island existed 9000 years ago. It corresponds to early stone Age. During this period, it is difficult to present the existence of agriculture, architecture and maritime shipping described in the story. One of the explanations of such inconsistencies is the wrong interpretation of Solon of the Egyptian symbol 100 as 1000. If so, the Atlantis existed 900 years before the narrative time. This corresponds to the middle of the Bronze Age, when the tools and equipment needed to achieve the described level of development appeared.

Many ancient philosophers considered Atlantis as fiction, including (in Strabo) and Aristotle. Nevertheless, philosophers, geographers, historians who took the story of Plato for a clean coin existed. One of them was a driver, a student of the student of Plato Xenocrat, who tried to find evidence of the existence of Atlantis. His job, a comment "Timea", lost, but another ancient historian, Burn, reports that the driver traveled to Egypt and actually found a column with the history of the island written by Egyptian hieroglyphs. As in all works of antiquity, it is difficult to estimate ambiguous proclamation here, since other evidence, except for written, has not been preserved.

Second Troy?

Disputes about where Atlantis is located, until the end of the nineteenth century were not so violent as after discovering in 1872 by Heinrich Shliman's lost city of Troy. He did it with the help of "Iliad" and "Odyssey" of Homer, so it became clear that the classic sources previously considered myths actually contain some lost truths. Scientist Ignatius Donelley in 1882 published the book "Atlantis: antediluvian world", which stimulated interest in the legendary island. The author perceived the mention of Plato seriously and tried to establish that all known ancient civilizations occurred from high neolithic culture. Others offered more inquiry ideas, attributing the atlantis supernatural aspects, combining them with stories about other lost continents, such as Mu and Lemuria, popular figures of the movement of theosophy, the occult and the growing phenomenon "New Age".

Parable Platon

Most scientists dropped faith in Atlantis as an idea of \u200b\u200bthe "New Century" religion, considering the most believable explanation, according to which the island was the parable of Plato, or was based on another famous civilization - Minoan. The fact that Greek philosopher often told the moral stories under the guise of fiction, cited in support of this point of view. "Cave" is perhaps the most famous example in which Plato illustrates the nature of reality. Scientists warn that the literal understanding of the myth is its perversion. It is more likely that Plato sent a warning to his tribesmen about the dangers of imperial expansion, political ambitions, singing nobility and knowledge of knowledge not for personal gain.

The truth about the intentions of the Greek philosopher will remain known only to him, but no one may doubt the symbolic durability of his history. If Atlantis can not be a physical place, then it certainly has acquired a place in the universal imagination.

Location hypotheses

Dozens have been put forward, and maybe hundreds of assumptions about where Atlantis is located, until the name has become a nominal name, not related to one concrete (perhaps even genuine) location. This is reflected in the fact that many offered places are generally not located in the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the proposed places share some of the features of the history of the mythical island (water, a catastrophic end, the corresponding period of time), but it has not yet been proven that this is true Atlantis. Where is (photo of it, for obvious reasons, we cannot provide) the most likely place of its location, you can learn from the list of popular options. Some of them are scientific or archaeological hypotheses, while others were created by pseudo-offend means.

Mediterranean Atlantis

Where is the legendary island, wondered a lot. Most of The proposed places were located within either near the Mediterranean Sea, or the islands such as Sardinia, Crete, Santorini, Cyprus or Malta.

The eruption of the volcano on the Ferre dated to the seventeenth or fifteenth century BC, caused a massive tsunami, which, according to the experts hypothesis, destroyed the Minoan civilization on the nearby island of Crete. This catastrophe could inspire the appearance of the myth about Atlantis. Supporters of the idea refer to the fact that the Egyptians used the lunar calendar, based on months, and the Greeks are sunny, based on years. Therefore, it is possible that the time interpreted as nine thousand years, in fact corresponds to 9000 months, placing the death of Atlantis within about 7 hundred years.

Santorini

Volcanic eruptions on the Mediterranean Island of Santorini during times minoan civilizationMost likely caused a cataclysm destroying Atlantis. The main criticism of this hypothesis is that the ancient Greeks were well aware of volcanoes, and if an eruption occurred there, it would probably have a mention of this. In addition, Pharaoh Amenhotep III ordered his emissar to visit the city surrounding Crete, and he found them in settlements where allegedly everything was completely destroyed.

Spartel.

Another hypothesis is based on the recreation of the geography of the Mediterranean Sea at a time when Atlantis still existed. Where she was, indicates Plato - beyond the limits of Hercules pillars. So called the Gibraltar Strait, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. Eleven thousand years ago sea level was 130 m below, and there was a number of islands in the strait. One of them, Spartel, and there are Atlantis, where she sank, although there are a number of inconsistencies with the Plato version.

Sardinia

In 2002, the Italian journalist Sergio Frau published the book "Herkulesov Pillars" in which he stated that before Eratosthena, all the ancient Greek writers had them in the Sicilian Strait, and the campaign of Alexander the Great to the East ordered Eratosphen in his description of the world to move poles to Gibraltar. According to his thesis, there was Atlantis, where Sardinia is located today. Indeed, the tsunami produced catastrophic destruction on the island, destroying the mysterious nuragy civilization. Several survivors moved to the neighboring Italian peninsula, founding Etruscan culture, which became the basis for later Roman, while the other survivors were part of the "peoples of the sea" attacked Egypt.

Outside the Mediterranean

Outside the Mediterranean Sea, Antarctica was placed in all corners of the world - from Ireland and Sweden to Indonesia and Japan. Many of these theories are based on inexpensive evidence. The two of the most discussed areas are Antarctica.

Bimini Road - Sunken Atlantis?

Where is Bermuda TriangleIt seems to know everything. Often associated with mysterious events Caribbean Drew attention to the underwater facilities called the Dear Bimini discovered by the pilots in the 1960s. Bimini consists of large stones located two parallel rows of shallow water for several kilometers from Bimini Islands. There were many expeditions went there to try to prove or disprove the technogenic origin of these formations and somehow tie them with Atlantis. Most scientists, in particular geologists, found evidence with inconclusive or concluded that this is a natural phenomenon. Others, however, strongly claim that the rock is too symmetric and deliberate to be a simple creation of nature. In any case, no other remains that would confirm that the road leads to a sunken island was not found.

Antarctica

The theory that Antarctica is a place where Atlantis (photo) once sank, was especially popular in 1960-1970. It was heated by the new Madness Ridge Lovekraft, as well as a map of Peir's flight, which allegedly shows Antarctica such, whatever it was without ice, how much the knowledge of the period allowed. Charles Berlitz, Erich von Danysen, and Peter Colosimo were among the popular authors who have made such an assumption. Nevertheless, the theory of the drift of the continents contradicts this idea, because during the lifetime of Plato Antarctic was in her current place and retained his non-microgenic climate. Nevertheless, the romance of unexplored regions generates many ideas like Atlantis, and to this day.

Pop culture

The study and opening of the long-lost cities and civilizations is the topic that is not related to space or time in the folk imagination. Atlantis has become the mythical island, whose name turned out to be a landmark for all other lost cities. The mention of it is present in all literary genres, from the works of the Renaissance to modern science fiction, fantasy, archaeological and scientific papers, New Age books. Television and cinema also used the charm of Atlantis. The myth was so tempting that one of the largest hotels in the Bahamas, Atlantis Paradise Island Resort, became the resort on the topic of the lost city.

In the "New Age" movement, there are those who believe that Atlantis, where there was a technologically highly developed civilization, self-destructed due to the rapid progress, or that extraterrestrial technology was used there. Such ideas were attributed to other ancient cultures, as many New Age believers seek to unite different mysterious phenomena in one idea. In the end, continuing discussion of what Atlantis is, where this sank island is located, - the testimony of the infinite curiosity of mankind and the desire not to be content with the current vision of the world, but to continue to look for secrets and discover the lost worlds of our past.