Atlantis Found Exactly Where Plato Said it Was
Cuba’s Sunken Atlantis: The Underwater City Mainstream Scholars Ignore
Over 15 years ago a team of
explorers found anomalous structures off the western Coast of Cuba. Sonar survey showed a set of intricate stone
formations 650 meters beneath the Caribbean Sea.
Strangely, no one has ever
explored the sunken city after it was found.
National Geographic published an
article about the sunken city when it was found and promised to perform
follow-up investigations; strangely, they pulled out of the investigation.
It isn’t
news anymore that there are countless sunken cities scattered across the globe.
From Asia to the Americas, there are legends of great cities that were
swallowed by the ocean, forgotten in time and history.
While some
of these cities have been found – mostly due to better equipment researchers
have in recent years - there are still many more cities waiting to be
rediscovered and brought back to life.
Different
ancient texts belonging to various ancient cultures speak of massive floods
that swept over the earth in the distant past. Evidence of that deluge can be
found today, and it is a global phenomenon that is believed to have changed
life on Earth forever.
The
countless submerged structures found on our planet in recent years point to a
much different time on Earth when our planet’s oceans were different then they
are today.
Tales and
legends of sunken empires like Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria, have captivated the
imagination of past generations and continue to do so presently…
One of the
most fascinating discoveries in the last decade was made just off the coast of
Cuba, when a team of underwater explorers using sonar equipment picked up a
staggering formation of stones located some 600 meters beneath the Caribbean
ocean.
Over 15
years ago, the company Advanced Digital Communications discovered peculiar structures beneath the Caribbean Sea. Based on sonar
surveys, they suggested that the structures found off the
western coast of Cuba were ancient monuments of an unknown ancient
civilization.
Symmetrically
arranged stones, which appeared to be remnants of some ancient urban
development indeed point towards a highly developed society that could have
inhabited the region in the distant past.
The
submerged structures seemed entirely anomalous against the barren ocean floor
and seemed to display symmetrically organized structures reminiscent of urban
development. All of this was found 600 meters beneath the surface.
When word of
the discovery got our, a media flurry soon ensued with media reporting
headlines like ‘Atlantis Discovered in Cuba’ and ‘Lost City of the Caribbean
Found’, captivating the interest of numerous governments, museum and popular
magazines like National Geographic who showed great interest in exploring the
sunken ‘city’ and promised further research and exploration.
However,
these promises were just that, empty stories that lead nowhere as no one
decided to go down there and further investigate the anomalous formations off
the coast of Cuba.
‘
“You just don’t make that type of
discovery and pull out just like that. If sonar picked up structures underwater
than the least we can do is go down there and see if there really is something
down there. We could be looking at one of the most important underwater
discoveries in history yet for some reason, we aren’t exploring it any further.”
—author Ivan Petricevic
Over 15
years after the initial discovery was made, the story about the sunken city of
Cuba disappeared into obscurity.
The question
no one seems to have asked is… What happened to the alleged sunken city near
the coast of Cuba? Were the mysterious structures ever fully investigated? Is
it possible that without public knowledge, someone explored these enigmatic
sunken structures? And why is it that such a sensational discovery fell into
obscurity so fast?
Geologist
Manuel Iturralde remains open-minded saying: “These are extremely peculiar
structures, and they have captured our imagination,” said Iturralde, who is
director of research at Cuba’s Natural History Museum. Iturralde has studied
countless underwater formations over the years, but said, “If I had to explain
this geologically, I would have a hard time.”
Estimating
that it would have taken 50,000 years for such structures to have sunken to
the depth at which they were said to be found, Iturralde added: “50,000 years ago there wasn’t the
architectural capacity in any of the cultures we know of to build complex
buildings.” A specialist in underwater archeology
at Florida State University added “It would be cool if they were
right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World
for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out-of-place.”
Here are some images of the
discovery:
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The
Legend of Atlantis: Between Ancient Ruins and a Philosopher’s Tale
Atlantis is
many things to many people. To some, it is a fictional island and city that a
philosopher with a vivid imagination invented to illustrate a moral point, and
nothing more. To others, it is merely a Bronze Age civilization that
existed no more than a thousand years before the time of classical Greece whose
grandeur and power were exaggerated beyond all proportions. But there are a few
who maintain the belief, so ridiculed by most scholars, that Atlantis was not
only everything Plato said it was—a spectacularly advanced civilization that
existed before the dawn of recorded history as we know it, but more besides,
namely, that it was the ancestral mother culture of all known civilizations
whose legacy, though forgotten to history, has been preserved in the myths and
stories of cultures all across the world and in the mysterious monuments found
all around the globe.
The Birth of Nininger City
Plato, who
is regarded by Atlantis researchers and skeptics alike as the sole
authoritative source on this ancient city, never stated outright that Atlantis was the
origin of all civilization. This bold and sweeping claim was made, over two
millennia later, by the most unlikely of individuals, separated from the
Mediterranean World whence the legend originated by a vast ocean of
distance and time, namely by Ignatius Donnelly. An eccentric and idealistic
man given to harebrained schemes, Donnelly founded a city
named Nininger City which quickly became a ghost town following an
economic downturn that swept the country.
Having
learned the lesson that it was much more difficult to create a new community
than to join an existing one, he entered politics and found considerably
greater success: he served as the lieutenant governor of his adopted
state of Minnesota on the eve of the Civil War, and also aligned himself
with the Radical Republican faction in the war and shortly
thereafter. Disillusioned by the increasing corruption of the Republican Party,
he later switched parties and then retired from politics altogether, choosing
to devote his still considerable energies to writing a book about yet
another subject that had captured the attention of his restless mind,
namely the lost civilization of Atlantis.
Deriv; Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst (1908)
(Public Domain),
Translation of Plato's Timaeus. (Public Domain).
Enjoying the
privilege of unlimited access to the archives of the Library of Congress,
Donnelly developed a novel thesis of breathtaking scope. He argued that the
apparent similarities between cultures that were separated by vast oceans, and
hence were isolated from each other throughout all of recorded history,
could be explained by the influence of a worldwide civilization that had
existed in remote antiquity and had spread its influence throughout the world
before it met its demise. Donnelly's book, titled Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,
found a receptive audience and became one of the best-selling books of its
time.
The Antediluvian World and Pyramid
Civilizations
In Chapter 5
of Part IV of Atlantis: The Antediluvian
World,
titled The Pyramid, The
Cross, and The Garden of Eden, Donnelly argues for the existence of
Atlantis as follows:
"How
did the human mind hit upon this singular edifice--the pyramid? By what process
of development did it reach it? Why should these extraordinary structures crop
out on the banks of the Nile, and amid the forests and plains of America? And
why, in both countries, should they stand with their sides square to the four
cardinal points of the compass? ... Is it possible to suppose all these
extraordinary coincidences to be the result of accident? We might just as well
say that the similarities between the American and English forms of government
were not the relationship or descent, but that men placed in similar
circumstances had spontaneously and necessarily reached the same
results."
The
perceptive reader who is well-acquainted with Plato's account of
Atlantis may have noticed that Donnelly's argument, strictly
speaking, does not support the existence of Atlantis per se, but only the
existence of some pyramid-building
civilization that bequeathed its legacy to the Egyptians, the Maya and Aztec,
and the other known pyramid-building civilizations across the world, as Plato
never actually mentions pyramids in his dialogues concerning Atlantis!
If, on the
contrary, Plato had said
that Atlantis built pyramids, it would be difficult to deny that Plato's
account of Atlantis was a veritable fact, for to maintain that Plato's account
was fictional would mean that Plato, by pure chance, happened to
invent a story about a prehistoric pyramid building civilization—precisely
the civilization whose existence is pointed to by evidence only available in
modern times—at a time when there was no evidence to suggest that such a
civilization should have existed. Such a coincidence would have been so
unlikely that it would have sufficed to demonstrate the veracity of
Plato's account of Atlantis beyond reasonable doubt. This raises the question:
Is there some structure, motif, or symbol that Plato does mention in his
account of Atlantis that is also found in known civilizations, both in the Old
World and the New, that Donnelly did not mention? In fact, there is.
Concentric Circles
The motif of
concentric circles is found in a remarkably similar form across cultures all
around the world,
in the Old world and New, in mediums ranging from architecture, pottery,
painting, and rock art. It is found in Peru, the Middle East, and on pottery
shards found in the ancient city of Tartessos. Out of all of the
representations of the concentric rings motif, perhaps the most interesting one
is Gilgal Rephaim.
Known as
Rujm el-Hiri in Arabic, the structure measures more than 500 feet (30 meters)
wide and is made of thousands of basalt rocks that together weigh over 40,000
tons. According to Dr. Uri Berger, a member of the Israel Antiquities
Authority, the sunrise on the summer and winter solstices is aligned with
openings in the rocks. Experts are divided over whether the site was primarily
a burial site or an ancient calendar, but they generally agree that the
construction on the structure began as early as 3500 BC, which is older than
the commonly accepted date of the building of the Giza Pyramid complex.
Another
representation of the concentric circles was found in a Tartessian ceramic.
This artifact was originally discovered in the 1950s, but it went
unnoticed until Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, an Atlantis researcher noticed
that a figure of concentric rings had been emblazoned onto it. Tartessos first
appears in the historical record in the first millennium BC, but it is possible
that the city was founded long before this date. The concentric circles motif
also is found carved onto stone all across the world, including the North and
South America, Ireland, China, and all across the Mediterranean. The
widespread prevalence of this symbol suggests that there was a civilization
whose influence extended across both the New and Old Worlds predating 3500 BC.
Since none of the civilizations known to history had this level of
influence prior to this date, the only remaining alternative is that a
civilization, as yet unidentified and lost to history, must have propagated
this symbol across the world. And it is precisely this symbol that is found at
the very heart of Plato's Atlantis - in the construction of its capital
city.
Tartessian ceramic,
Tartessos
Concentric circles rock art
According to
Plato, the city of Atlantis was originally carved out of a small mountain to
serve as the residence for the god Poseidon and his mortal wife Cleito:
"Thereon
dwelt one of the natives originally sprung from the earth, Evenor by
name, with his wife Leucippe; and they had for offspring an only-begotten
daughter, Cleito. And when this damsel was now come to marriageable age, her
mother died and also her father; and Poseidon, being smitten with desire for
her, wedded her; and to make the hill whereon she dwelt impregnable he broke it
off all round about; and he made circular belts of sea and land enclosing one
another alternately, some greater, some smaller, two being of land and three of
sea, which he carved as it were out of the midst of the island; and these belts
were at even distances on all sides, so as to be impassable for man; for
at that time neither ships nor sailing were as yet in existence."
He even
describes the precise dimensions of each of the rings of land and water later
on:
"The
greatest of the circles into which a boring was made for the sea was three
stades in breadth, and the circle of land next to it was of equal breadth; and
of the second pair of circles that of water was two stades in breadth and that
of dry land equal again to the preceding one of water; and the circle which ran
round the central island itself was of a stade's breadth. wherein
stood the royal palace, was of five stades in diameter."
Artist’s concept of Atlantis
In the
Caribbean Basin, at 17°09'51.16" N 65°03'31.45" W, there is
a feature resembling Plato's Atlantis.
Caribbean Basin with ‘city’ location marked.
Google Earth
Overhead view. Google Earth
Inclined view. Image via Google Earth
Moreover,
the measurements of the concentric rings precisely match those given by
Plato.
Measurements
We may
calculate the distance from the center of the central island to the outer
edge of each of the concentric rings as follows, converting distances in units
of stadia to units of miles using the conversion factor of 1 mile = 8.8 stadia.
Also, we may delineate the boundaries between the each of the circular zones on
the Google Earth images by observing where the colors change from light to
dark, and vice versa.
First, the
distance from the center of the central island to its outer edge is simply half
the diameter of this central island, or 2.5 stades = 0.28 miles.
Second, the
distance from the center of the central island to the outer edge of the first
circle of water is the width of this first circle of water added to the
previous distance (the radius of the central island), which amounts to 2.5
stades + 1 stade = 3.5 stades = 0.40 miles.
Third, the
distance from the center of the central island to the outer edge of the first
circle of land is the width of this first circle of land added to the previous
distance, which amounts to 3.5 stades + 2 stades = 5.5 stades = 0.63
miles.
Fourth, the
distance from the center of the central island to the outer edge of the second
circle of water is the width of this second circle of water added to the
previous distance, which amounts to 5.5 stades + 2 stades = 7.5 stades = 0.85
miles.
Fifth, the
distance from the center of the central island to the outer edge of the
outermost circle of land is the width of this circle added to the previous
distance, which amounts to 7.5 stadia + 3 stadia = 10.5 stadia = 1.19
miles.
Finally, the
distance from the center of the central island to the outermost circle of water
is the width of this circle added to the previous distance, which amounts to
10.5 stadia + 3 stadia = 13.5 stadia = 1.53 miles.
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