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Posted on 4/18/26 at 6:54 pm to kingbob
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a site off the coast of Spain, and the Richat structure in the Sahara.
I think Green Sahara or Spain are plausible. One thing that was mentioned was they had great wealth from trade. Who the hell would be trading with them if they were in the middle of the Atlantic?
The Spain hypothesis is very interesting
Posted on 4/18/26 at 6:56 pm to 308
Well, if it was a truly advanced civilization, it seems to have existed without coined money, because no coins have ever been found that anyone believed came from Atlantis. So, the most advanced and wealthiest maritime power of the ancient world doesn't seem to have used their own coinage in their vast trading with other nations, because coins survive and we have none. Nor are any Atlantian coins mentioned, to the best of my knowledge, in any ancient record that we can verify.
TIFWIW
TIFWIW
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:00 pm to AlterEd
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Something like the existence of a pre diluvian civilization has profound impacts on several facets of our modern society. Which makes it political
Count the # of times 'Atlantis' has been brought up in ANY political debate, conversation, campaign...
Unlike ancient Greek or Rome, which has direct through lines to our current day political concepts, what does Atlantis have? We can't even decide if it was real or not.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:00 pm to CharlesUFarley
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Well, if it was a truly advanced civilization, it seems to have existed without coined money, because no coins have ever been found that anyone believed came from Atlantis.
What does, for example, 400 feet of impacted earth do to tin or copper? It's absolutely possible for coins to be lost forever due to pressure, heat, time, etc.
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Nor are any Atlantian coins mentioned, to the best of my knowledge, in any ancient record that we can verify.
This is a better point imo. Although writings are easier to destroy into dust than coins.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:01 pm to kingbob
They didn’t vote for net zero to avoid that!!!!
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:03 pm to CharlesUFarley
Interesting point
2 thoughts - 1) metals gets melted and reused - couple that with the fact that we don’t have real coinage from every civilization we actually know about… … 2) IF they were truly advanced (Atlanteans, or whatever civilization) - could they have converted to paper or digital money like we are trending towards???
2 thoughts - 1) metals gets melted and reused - couple that with the fact that we don’t have real coinage from every civilization we actually know about…
… 2) IF they were truly advanced (Atlanteans, or whatever civilization) - could they have converted to paper or digital money like we are trending towards???
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:04 pm to GRTiger
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Bookmarked. I love this stuff.
It's well worth the watch. And I think she has a second part to it as well, but I haven't seen that one yet.
But honestly, I think it should essentially be considered settled at this point. I'm not saying that the Azores might not have been a part of this same culture, because Atlantis was composed of 10 separate kingdoms, but home base was certainly at the Eye of the Sahara. It matches everything we hear from Plato. So much so that this other guy named George Sarantitis recently retranslated the Timeaus Criteus and came to the same conclusion just going by the straight ancient Greek text. The route they took would have essentially been right through the northern half of Africa.
As the green Sahara transformed into the desert we see today, the people were pushed farther and farther East until they ended up in Egypt. Just like the Egyptians themselves say.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:05 pm to dcbl
OP here
Very sorry! I thought I was in OT when I started the thread.
Can someone who knows what they are doing move it to OT?
Very sorry! I thought I was in OT when I started the thread.
Can someone who knows what they are doing move it to OT?
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:05 pm to 308
Central America was Atlantis
Plato miscalculated
Plato miscalculated
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:05 pm to 308
I think so, there’s enough references in historical text to believe it existed
I also think any remnants of it are long gone
I also think any remnants of it are long gone
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:06 pm to 308
Yes. I`ve Dreamed about it
This post was edited on 4/18/26 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:07 pm to 308
Historians said Troy was just a fable before Hank Scliemann found it.
On questions of ancient peoples and things, Im with the late great Donald Kagan ; Im going to defer to the wisdom of the ancient Greek and Roman sages until given a real reason not to. If Plato says Atlantis existed, then as far as I’m concerned, its up to you to prove otherwise.
On questions of ancient peoples and things, Im with the late great Donald Kagan ; Im going to defer to the wisdom of the ancient Greek and Roman sages until given a real reason not to. If Plato says Atlantis existed, then as far as I’m concerned, its up to you to prove otherwise.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:08 pm to OWLFAN86
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Plato miscalculated
As did the OP apparently
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:09 pm to Sunnyvale
quote:Edgar Cayce???
Yes. I`ve Dreamed about it
I thought you were dead?
Well, go Wildcats - right?
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:09 pm to CharlesUFarley
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Well, if it was a truly advanced civilization, it seems to have existed without coined money, because no coins have ever been found that anyone believed came from Atlantis. So, the most advanced and wealthiest maritime power of the ancient world doesn't seem to have used their own coinage in their vast trading with other nations, because coins survive and we have none. Nor are any Atlantian coins mentioned, to the best of my knowledge, in any ancient record that we can verify.
I'm not sure what any of this means though. If you look at some of the things from pre-Dynastic Egyptian times they appear to have had highly advanced technology, but we don't see even any hieroglyphs or writing of any kind from this timeframe.
It was said that Atlantis was covered in orichalcium and that has been found in shipwrecks. Ingots of the stuff.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:11 pm to 308
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OP here
Very sorry! I thought I was in OT when I started the thread.
Can someone who knows what they are doing move it to OT?
It's doing pretty good here. Works either way at this point.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:12 pm to 308
Yes. It was destroyed in Noah's flood. It has been rebuilt in Antarctica by the Nephilim and is there right now.
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:13 pm to AlterEd
Freaking love Jahannah
Posted on 4/18/26 at 7:13 pm to 308
No. Maybe it was pre Mycenae Crete or Thera, although Plato describes it as being beyond the Pillar of Heracles which would geographically disqualify those two.
Maybe it was Tartessos.
But almost certainly didn’t exist- it was a philosophical tool used my Plato
Maybe it was Tartessos.
But almost certainly didn’t exist- it was a philosophical tool used my Plato
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