http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis. It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down. A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary. They seem too vast and organised to be caused naturally. And last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato. He believed it was an island civilisation sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,700BC — nearly 12,000 years ago. The “grid” showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys. Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University — and one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantis — called it “fascinating”. He said: “The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look.” The legend of Atlantis has captured the imagination of scholars for centuries. And in the 1970s it spawned a hit TV series, Man From Atlantis, in which Patrick Duffy played a webbed hero who could live underwater.
I watched a documentary on Atlantis once. Most of the experts believed that it lay somewhere in the Caribbean. But still this is interesting stuff.
Why does the artist's impression of Atlantis have the Parthenon and other Greek crap? Parthenon is 2500 years ago. Atlantis is 12,000 years.
What if it is just an easter egg added into Google Ocean? I know there are some of those in Google Earth...
Atlantis has been thought to be many places - you read a different book, you watch a different documentary, it's thought to be somewhere else. Others have thought it to be in the Mediterranean.
That looks like SpongeBob SquarePants died. R.I.P. the little square dude + . We all know MILO found it already:
The greatest archeological discovery of modern times was made using Google? I guess the scientific journal report will be on Wikipedia. Otherwise, pretty cool.
This would be awesome if true. I hope people are on their way to that exact spot to dive in and take a look right now.
