| Kalopsychos wrote: |
| Many today think that the story of Atlantis is linked to the Destructive eruption of a volcano between Crete and Thera( Santorini). in the south Aegean sea: There is evidence that such a massive eruption took place, possibly larger than Krakatoa in the 1800s. --The eruption is often cited as a cause of the sudden collapse of the Minoan culture ( Atlantis?) followed by a dark age in that part of the world. Such an enormouse eruption could have caused a massive sunami. The Nile delta and north libyan coast and even the Red sea valley and the Negev could have been inundated. In otherwords a Great Flood. |
Yes, the Greek isles (specifically the island of Thera/Santorini) is the most likely location for the Atlantis myth. The civilization that existed there during the Bronze Age, the Minoan civilization, was a very advanced sea-faring civilization for its time.
The story of Atlantis was first told to an ancestor of Plato by some priests in Egypt. It is believed that the volcanic eruption in the Aegean took place sometime around 1500 BC, which was roughly
1000 years before Plato's time. Somewhere along the line of the retelling of the Atlantis destruction story, Plato's ancestor or someone else confused the Egyptian number for 1,000 with the number 10,000. Hence the subsequent belief that Atlantis existed around 10,000 years before Plato's time.
If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that that volcanic eruption took place roughly around the time of Moses/Exodus and the plagues that are mentioned bible.
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... it said that I've lived On Atlantis in my past life. I was somekind of scout of new countries. So this guided my interest in this subject. I happened to pop to a www-site that have some stuff about Atlantis. One interesting thing was Atlantis-cards...here is this address for you:
