Where do you think Atlantis was located?

[Sikeliot]

Kind of stealing gold_fenix's idea here but where do you think it was?

Some places I have heard proposed;

- Caribbean
- Canary Islands
- Madeira
- Cape Verde
- Balearic Islands
- Ireland
- various Greek islands mostly Santorini
- Malta
- An island around Spain that no longer exists


To me, it having been Malta or a Greek island makes no sense, and the Caribbean is a very far-fetched idea..

[gold_fenix]

Doñana (Spain) is between the colums of Hercules, in the atalantic ocean, the languaje of Tartessos was celtic, i heard a theory that celts come from atlantis, There is a relation between Tartessos and Atlantis, R1b is high in the West of Europe, i think doñana now is the theory more correct

[Tabiti]

http://www.black-sea-atlantis.com/black-sea-atlantis/

Sorry, guys, but I've just googled "black sea atlantis"...So

[Sikeliot]

I guess I just figure that it would have had to be located somewhere near the Atlantic. But maybe not.

[Nihtgenga]

I voted Ireland but I don't think it was Ireland but near the British Isles.

[Piparskeggr]

Firmly in the pages of mythology and historical allegory.

I do not believe that Atlantis, as such, existed in the historical timeline that we share in this reality.

[Laubach]

these are the places that were being considered which would have been Atlantis

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3484/locationhypothesisofatl.jpg

[Logan]

Where she looks.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cGuTGISVID0/TOwcvd1_l8I/AAAAAAAAACw/MUM6cO82rSM/s1600/island.bmp

Santorini
http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1288532module1611154photo_map-of-santorini-greece.gif

[Sikeliot]

these are the places that were being considered which would have been Atlantis

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3484/locationhypothesisofatl.jpg

I can't imagine it being Sardinia, Crete, Santorini, or Cyprus though because those islands were already known as being significant places to ancient sources.

[gold_fenix]

vinca script
http://www.black-sea-atlantis.com/black-sea-atlantis/index-Dateien/image026.jpg

tartessos script
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/I_tarteso.jpg/800px-I_tarteso.jpg

[Mordid]

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/atlantis/images/world_map_atlantic.gif

[askra]

also Sardinia is theorized to be the location of Atlantis:

http://www.atlantisdiscovered.org/thesis.htm

http://www.atlantisrevealed.com/pages/section3/page1.asp?pageid=5

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=91019

[Logan]

Where she looks.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cGuTGISVID0/TOwcvd1_l8I/AAAAAAAAACw/MUM6cO82rSM/s1600/island.bmp

Santorini
http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/250/draft_lens1288532module1611154photo_map-of-santorini-greece.gif


'A volcanic eruption that may have inspired the myth of Atlantis was up to twice as large as previously believed, according to an international team of scientists.

The eruption occurred 3,600 years ago on the Santorini archipelago, whose largest island is Thera. Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea about 125 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of modern-day Greece.'

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html

[Damião de Góis]

Doñana (Spain) is between the colums of Hercules, in the atalantic ocean, the languaje of Tartessos was celtic, i heard a theory that celts come from atlantis, There is a relation between Tartessos and Atlantis, R1b is high in the West of Europe, i think doñana now is the theory more correct

What are the colums of Hercules to you? Gibraltar?

Anyway, to me it had to be somewhere the Greeks had been to or knew well since it was them who wrote about it. I think it was somewhere in the Mediterranean.

[Wulfhere]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FraUxsnCivU/TP6dCKvu7lI/AAAAAAAAAoY/wlMPyg2A9PA/s1600/Doggerland+7%252C000+BP.jpg

http://oeralinda.angelfire.com/

[Logan]

What are the colums of Hercules to you? Gibraltar?

Anyway, to me it had to be somewhere the Greeks had been to or knew well since it was them who wrote about it. I think it was somewhere in the Mediterranean.

Could be Plato.

[SilverKnight]

A: Greek islands.
If you do a good observation it seems as if all / if not most of the Greek islands where once connected and lost a huge shunk of it, sinking Atlantis to the bottom of the sea.

[Saturni]

I think Atlantis probably existed and was located somewhere in the Mediterranean region.

[Queen B]

Anyway, to me it had to be somewhere the Greeks had been to or knew well since it was them who wrote about it. I think it was somewhere in the Mediterranean.
I second that.

I think is quite impossible to be somewhere out of the medditeranean.

[Chip Farley]

Around Ireland some-where.

Ancient Greeks called it Hypherboria too, right? :confused:

[Druzhina]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=396VfgRH8Uw

http://atlantisinalbania.blogspot.com/#

[Gaijin]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Atlantis_map_1882_crop.jpg
- Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, 1882.

[mr. logan]

Atlantic, it could explain the wait for the White race return by the amerindians and the reddish tone of skin in a part of atlantic blacks.

[Anglojew]

There's no mystery at all. It's just Europeans being confused.

Atlantis is simply the Greek form of Aztlán the pre-Aztec Empire which by the time the Spanish became aware of it (in reality Europeans like the Knights Templar had been trading with the Americas for 1000's of years but tended to keep it quiet as they didn't want to share profits from trade) was a city-state called Tenochtitlan (Itlan=Atlan) which still exactly resembled Plato's discriptions of geography and location.

An early Spanish Map;

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Plato's description;

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[Druzhina]

There's no mystery at all. It's just Europeans being confused.

Atlantis is simply the Greek form of Aztlán the pre-Aztec Empire which by the time the Spanish became aware of it (in reality Europeans like the Knights Templar had been trading with the Americas for 1000's of years but tended to keep it quiet as they didn't want to share profits from trade) was a city-state called Tenochtitlan (Itlan=Atlan) which still exactly resembled Plato's discriptions of geography and location.

An early Spanish Map;

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Plato's description;

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Nonsense. :picard2:

http://atlantisinalbania.blogspot.com/#


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=396VfgRH8Uw

[Sikeliot]

Atlantis would have been of the same etymological root as Atlas.. so it'd imply if anything a location near the Atlas Mountains. So Canary or Balearic Islands makes most sense.

[Roy]

I've heard that it could be Thira (Santorini) even if it doesn't make much sense from a geographical point of view

[Aunt Hilda]

Somebodies imagination...

[Grizzly]

Firmly in the pages of mythology and historical allegory.

I do not believe that Atlantis, as such, existed in the historical timeline that we share in this reality.

To be fair Homer wrote about Troy(was it Homer?) and everyone thought it was fairy tale nonsense until they actually found physical evidence to back it up..

[densos]

My opinion is that there is always a little bit of truth in every myth specially the older it is, just a few decades ago everyone laughed at the amazon warrior woman “myth” until they found Sarmatian and Scythian tombs with female mummies and their weapons buried with them.

There is strong scientific proof for a great flood (regional catastrophe) in western Asia and if you look at the Göbekli Tepe complex, it’s no longer in doubt that humans could be as sophisticated as us even 11 thousand years ago.

The mistake is to take things to literally specially when it comes to poetic greeks.

So although most evidence points to Santorini we might still be surprised by incredible new findings in the Mediterranean or somewhere else.