Bimini: An Analysis

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Bimini road

The following pictures provide an impression of the large scale structure of the Bimini road.


 
This photograph shows that the road is clearly visible from the air.
 


This map of the road (from The Stones of Atlantis, by David Zink), shows the possible artificial nature of the outline. Its straight parts are accentuated by the purposeful looking bend at the end of the bottom section.
 

The letters "A", "B", and "C" denote the parts of the Bimini road shown in detail above, with its orientation now given relative to the current coast line "F". Letter "C" marks some other regular shaped structures, while the structure "D" is made up of regularly spaced piles of stones also known as columns, and extends over 2.4 km,  crossing the ancient beach lines ("E").

 

[Desiree]

BIMINI ROAD, ANALYSIS

Firstly one should not be confused by the word “road”, this is only a convenient looking name given by the first discoverers. One should see the road initially just as what it is: a collection of stones. The question is: are the shape and arrangement of these stones such that they are artificial, made by man. The usual arguments for this are: regularity, straight lines (not circles, nature is pretty good at making circles), some kinds of symmetry (not all: natural crystals can also be symmetric, but they are usually not bigger than a decimeter), and the like.

So are the stones of the Bimini road arranged regularly enough to be called artificial? Referring to the thumbnail gallery: number 2 seems to show a fair amount of artificial squareness, number 3 an artificial straightness on small scale, and number 4 an artificial arrangement of surfaces. The overview of the entire road shows a fair amount of large scale straightness, and it is irrelevant that this is not as straight as our roads, since the Bimini road need not be a road at all. The curve at the end of one section also seems too deliberate to be natural. This is accentuated by the fact that the other section seems to have a deliberate end at roughly the same place.

Another point is that there are reliable reports that in the 1920's a lot of stones have been dredged up for building purposes, so its present outline may not be its original one. These operations would tend to disturb existing regularities rather than create them. It could also explain the fact that both sections seem split in two: a dredging boat would position itself above the clearly visible structure, above the centre of the narrow target, and dredge along its length; see the picture for a suggested new outline.

The sceptics have given as a possible natural cause that the structures have been formed by the sea deposits at beaches, so-called "beach rock". This is hardly capable of explaining the observable regularities. There also seems to be a counter example of a "road"-like structure that is perpendicular to the ancient beaches, see here.



Any interpretation beyond these remarks is fanciful. Since it would diminish the strength of the previous remarks, further interpretation is not given at this place.

The data on the piles of stones called "columns" is limited to a few piles, and the map that says  there is a row of these piles that is on a 2.4 kilometre long straight line. If the latter is true, an artificial origin becomes quite likely (arguments given by some that these stones are thrown overboard from ships would not explain their lying on a straight line). Whether the stones are really the remains of columns is as yet unsure, although some pieces look uncannily like pieces of the well-known Greek examples.

To the combination of the stones forming the road and those known as columns applies the argument that the presence in each others neighbourhood of two more or less artificial looking structures heightens the probability of these structures being artificial, especially if a correlation between them can be established.. This of course also applies to the data from the Andros platform and the satellite images.
 

[Qoais]

Hi Desiree
I saw this expedition on TV and I thought the conclusion was that there was nothing to prove it was Atlantis, and that this was once a shipping dock and the stones with the holes in them were anchors.  I know Edgar Cayce made mention of this location, and I believed it for years and years, and then recently I started studying in earnest about it, think this was a trade center.

[Desiree]

Hi Qoais,

Greg thinks it is unrelated to Atlantis because carbon dating shows a more recent time period.  On the other hand, I'm not convinced that Atlantis existed 9000 years ago.  In my opinion, the time period could be anything from 9000 to 2000 bc.

Anything more recent would, of course, be in historical memory!

[nikas]

Hi Qoais,

Greg thinks it is unrelated to Atlantis because carbon dating shows a more recent time period.  On the other hand, I'm not convinced that Atlantis existed 9000 years ago.  In my opinion, the time period could be anything from 9000 to 2000 bc.

Anything more recent would, of course, be in historical memory!

Of course can't be more resent why? Because Homer wouldn’t write about troy when you have a greater story, Atlantis. It has to be way a head of homer. So At least 2,000 before troy. So it goes up to 3,600 B.C at least.....

[Tom Hebert]

Hi Desiree,

Both Plato and Cayce tell us that civilization has reinvented itself numerous times over the eons.  This could account for the 10,000 B.C. date or even earlier.  Cataclysmic events could have destroyed virtually all of the evidence.

Hi Qoais,

Greg thinks it is unrelated to Atlantis because carbon dating shows a more recent time period.  On the other hand, I'm not convinced that Atlantis existed 9000 years ago.  In my opinion, the time period could be anything from 9000 to 2000 bc.

Anything more recent would, of course, be in historical memory!

[Bianca]

Map of Bimini Road drawn after aerial and
underwater surveys carried out by the Poseidia
75 expedition, sponsored by the A.R.E.  The
road is magnified to approximately twice its
actual size in relation to the island of Bimini.
Shaped roughly like a letter J, it is some three
quarters of a mile long and composed of huge
stone blocks, often 15 feet square. On this map,
the X marking the discovery of a stone artifact
relates to a fragment of what appeared to be
tongue and groove masonry discovered on the
Poseidia 75 expedition by one of its member
Dr. David Zink.


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