re: Was there really an Atlantis?

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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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This is a better point imo. Although writings are easier to destroy into dust than coins.

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A vast, trading Maritime Power would have been conducting commerce in every corner of the known world. Their coins would have had high value everywhere they went. They would have trafficked with every other civilization and pre-civilization. Coins in significant numbers would have been scattered so far that no localized geological disaster would have removed them.

It is possible that they did not use coinage, but they most certainly would have used some kind of standardized, repeatable, durable, and distinctive medium of commerce, and at least some of that medium would not have been present at the calamity.

Ben is cool. I’ve pitched him a few shekels for his work.

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Ben is cool. I’ve pitched him a few shekels for his work.

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Same. His tale of two industries videos are frickin fantastic. He makes an argument that is absolutely conclusive, imo, that the dynastic Egyptians inherited their monuments and things, rather than developed them themselves.

I'm guessing that much of that stuff you see in Egypt like the collosal Ramses statues that are flawless and the like will have been the same sort of stuff you would have seen all across Northern Africa before the flood. And I imagine a lot of it is still there to be found under the sands.

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It is possible that they did not use coinage, but they most certainly would have used some kind of standardized, repeatable, durable, and distinctive medium of commerce, and at least some of that medium would not have been present at the calamity.

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As I said, ingots of orichalcium have been found in shipwrecks. The exact alloy Plato claims they developed there and used to cover the walls of their city.

Don't you muddy this discussion up with your smarm

I was told there would be no geography

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Ok Ok OK..Algeria.

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Listen dipshit, you're talking about a civilization comprised of 10 kingdoms. It was large.

What I have shown you is a map from Herodotus that puts Atlantis on the map in the same area we see the Eye of the Sahara that matches over 20 different descriptions Plato gave for the place down to the letter.

As someone else said, don't be a frickin douche.

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Goddamit Ed

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He knows these things. He is looking at an ancient map and using modern geographical boundaries to try and cast doubt on it despite knowing damn well that the area in question is right there in the same region.

The guy is a collosal tool bag.

So, we know for fact certain that Israeli artifacts have been found in America

This is more controversial, but we also have evidence that cocoa (which is only found in the Americas) was found in the stomach of a mummified Egyptian

There is substantial evidence that points towards global trade in deep antiquity - the idea of a lost civilization is very probable (even without coins)