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In 1944 Hans Pettersson disproved Atlantis in the Atlantic

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« on: March 08, 2014, 10:32:24 pm »

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The existence of boats and settlement does not mean that there is knowledge about these countries.
The known geographical horizon widened slowly step by step ... very slowly.

This is the same kind of short-sighted thinking that once made people believe that the Clovis people were the first settlers of the Americas and that it only occurred three thousand years ago. We now know that the Americas were inhabited between 10,000 to 30,000 years ago! The date is being pushed back all the time.

Looking at it logically, though, the Mediterranean is not that far away from the Atlantic. How can you possibly think that the  Egyptians had no knowledge of it when we know how long boats have been around?  It would be understandable if you are talking about someplace in the Pacific Ocean.

As for supposedly not knowing the works of the other historians (and I was the one who first quoted Plutarch to you, which you apparently didn't know), Herodotus knew of the Atlantic, too, and he wrote before Plato. Likewise, Hellanicus also wrote of a fragment dealing with Atlantis, too, and he, not Plato, was the one that first coined the term. We would probably have more references if we could decode Linear A because the Minoans probably knew of it, too.

And, you don't have to believe Atlantis in the Atlantic, its where Plato sets it! Like I said, your Atlantis is obviously something else as it bears no resemblance to the writings.
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This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.


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