Photo. The beautiful island San Torino in Greece.
Remains of Atlantis? But now scientists search for other places.
It is truth about the sunken city from past? The legend of
Atlantis has fascinated people during thousand of years, but so far no one have ever found
evidence for the lost continent or place. According to all theories about Atlantis` location, it
could be found many places. Anyway the ocean it`s good to keep
its secrets to itself, or maybe there is no Atlantis at all. Perhaps just in our
imagination?
The expedition members are inspired by
the good old Greek Plato, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, who
wrote down the only written account of the history of Atlantis. In "Timaeus"
Plato recounts the story of Atlantis as told by an Egyptian priest. As Plato
wrote: ..... there was an island
situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of
Heracles".
According to the
website Search for Atlantis (www.lookingforatlantis.com),
the veracity of oral tradition is well documented in all societies. Pre historic
man inhabited the coastal plains of SW
Spain and N Morocco throughout the last ice
age, land that is now submerged. Sailing is archaeologically documented at 11ky
BP, and probably existed at the height of the last ice age. The geology of the
submarine islands in the Straits of Gibraltar fits with the myth of Atlantis as
described by Plato. Islands that dominate the Straits and would only have been a
few miles from the mainland.
The team is
supported by UNESCO. They will launch a 15 day expedition out of
Toulon. They are
convinced that the expedition has a potential to shatter our beliefs as to the
development of civilisation, as well as impacting our own future.
The person who
has pointed out the location for the search is Jacques Collina-Girard. She is an
archaeologist and palaeontologist of the University of
Aix en
Provence.
Collina-Girard is a world expert on pre historic civilisations, and particularly
those of SW Europe at the end of the last ice age. Of particular significance is his
earlier discovery of cave paintings in the South of France.
The team will
survey the submerged islands and look for concrete proof of a prehistoric
settlement. They will search, survey and film the under sea area. They hope to
find and recover pre historic artefacts. As they say: the global importance, impact, and
implications of such finds cannot be exaggerated.
Travel Explorations wish
the expedition "DEEP MED ONE" good luck, and look forward to hear about find of
sunken treasures. Could this expedition lead to the greatest discovery
ever?
Stein Morten Lund, 7 May 2004
Additional
information
For more
information about Atlantis, click on the links below!
Sources:
Expedition DEEP
MED ONE: www.lookingforatlantis.com
Discovery: www.discoveryatlantis.com
According to
Discovery`s website, international team launch "Cyprus Atlantis Expedition 2004"
to celebrate moment of EU entry. After several weeks of successful lecture tours
and fundraising in Cyprus this
Spring, American author Robert Sarmast is this week launching the official
Atlantis Expedition Programme. At exactly midnight on Friday, on board ship 5
hours out from Limassol harbour, his international launch team will send a
capsule containing the Cyprus, EU and specially created Atlantis flags one mile
down to the sea floor at the edge of the submerged continental shelf which
Sarmast believes was once the plain of Atlantis.
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