Atlantis found?

[Nachtrafe]

Stratos, I saw a show on the Discovery Channel awhile back, on Atlantis, and they mentioned the map, so I can back up what Azred is saying.

Also, a quick AllTheWeb-ing(well, everybody says Google-ing...but I prefer www.alltheweb.com ...so there...anyway...) revealed this link, which shows the map, along with a modern satelite image of Antartica, and has an interesting article to go with it. There are source links at the bottom of the article.

And HERE is a direct link to a pic of the map itself, in decent detail.

EDIT: Stupid Tripod...here is the straight link to the pic. Copy/paste it into a new window: http://members.tripod.com/~Zomb/ORONTEUS.GIF

[ 11-18-2004, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: Nachtrafe ]

[Azred]

Originally posted by Stratos: Any links to a picture of this medieval map showing the Antarctican coastline, perhaps? Antarctica has been frozen for a long time, and it seems unlikely that someone would keep a map around showing it's coastline. Heck, it's unlikely that such a map would even exist.

The Piri Reis Map, available for your amusement and perusal. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

[Timber Loftis]

Hey, maybe this is where Osama's hiding out. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

[Azred]

That sure would explain a lot.

I love that site; one of my favorites. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

[Spelca]

Originally posted by Nachtrafe: Stratos, I saw a show on the Discovery Channel awhile back, on Atlantis, and they mentioned the map, so I can back up what Azred is saying.

I saw that show too!

[Nachtrafe]

Originally posted by Spelca: quote: Originally posted by Nachtrafe: Stratos, I saw a show on the Discovery Channel awhile back, on Atlantis, and they mentioned the map, so I can back up what Azred is saying.

I saw that show too! [/QUOTE]Good show. I dont know if I can fully believe their suppositions, but still, it was rather entertaining. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Yorick]

Originally posted by Azred: quote: Originally posted by Yorick: Actually Atlantis was, as the article said, the nation that PLATO spoke about. It's a specific culture, not some global catch phrase. When they speak of finding Atlantis, they speak of finding the culture Plato described. Many considered early Crete to be Atlantis for example.

I don't disagree that Plato was the first person to record the story of Atlantis, but I am talking about what Atlantis represents mythologically--the "golden age" of early humanity before the world went downhill. This myth exists in all cultures throughout the world, [/QUOTE]That's more like EDEN not Atlantis. Atlantis was Plato's baby. Atlantis is a specific, not a generalised place or culture.

There was a pre-Greek society that was destroyed by a cataclysm--the Minoans. The geolocial evidence points to a volcanic eruption and subsequent tidal wave. Ouch.

Historians agree this is more likely to be Plato's Atlantis. Unless this new find is actually it. Could perhaps, more clarifyingly explain the origins of "the sea peoples" who became the Phonecians and Philistines.

[Timber Loftis]

Clarifyingly? You been reading the George Bush dictionary? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Azred]

Originally posted by Yorick: That's more like EDEN not Atlantis. Atlantis was Plato's baby. Atlantis is a specific, not a generalised place or culture.

I know; I simply equate the two. Artistic, [img]graemlins/erm.gif[/img] I mean scientific license. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

[Yorick]

Azred: Fair enough. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Timber, no. New words are invented all the time. I choose to live on the avante garde.