Message #121186

[dhill757]

Thera (Santorini)
 The island of Thera, today an active volcano is also known as Santorini. It is located due north of Crete in the Aegean Sea. Thera's eruption in 1,650 B.C. was one of the largest (VEI=6) in the last 10,000 years.

The devastating volcanic explosion may have contributed to the sudden downfall of the Minoan civilization. If the Egyptians read the story in the Minoan language called "Linear A" they might have easily confused the symbol for 100 and the one used for 1000 introducing an error factor of 10. This would put the destruction of Atlantis at 900 year instead of 9000 years before Plato and it would then coincide with the eruption of Thera.

The Minoans could have been advanced and feared enough at the time to have the myth created, but Thera is not large enough to coincide with the story. Also there is no sinking involved, just an eruption.

 Antarctica

The key to this theory is that Antarctica used to be temperate but switched to a more frozen climate due to tectonic plate shifting which occurs every couple thousand of years. This explains Plato's description of a large continent bigger than Asia and Libya and it matches original size described and coastal description of Plato's original map. This also fits with other conspiracy theories regarding Antarctica and it explains why no one has found it. On the minus side, geologists do not believe the earth's crust has or ever could shift that much. Therefore, there would be no way for Antarctica to have been in the Atlantic ocean or for the story to reach Egypt and later Greece. Also, there is no satellite evidence or first person evidence of anything existing in Antarctica...yet.

Now back to Koudriavtsev's work ...