zijeann
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When one mentions the lost continent of Atlantis, one thinks of Plato's "Dialogues".
However, Plato's work was not the only one to point to a 'lost continent'. There are legends of other old civilizations that mention lost worlds which disappeared into the waters, as a result of volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes. Some did not even mention the story, but drew a map with an island lying in the Atlantic Ocean.
Today people fight over the existence of Atlantis, but they all take into account one story, that is Plato's. We are not doing this though. While we do expose the theories and the ongoing research on this sunk land, we try to bind together everything we have to create The Atlantis, the base for "Dialogues", the base for Kircher's and Piri Reis's map, the course of the ancient legends. The result might not be called "Atlantis", but a variation of it. There are so many researchers that claim to have discovered "the lost continent", that any new found land can be a possible Atlantis. So the name becomes irrelevant to me.
We need to make a distinction between a pure story and reality.
Many scientists chose to seek Atlantis in the Mediterranean Sea, others, along the shores of Africa and Europe, and America, and other decided that, since we have no actual prove of its existence underwater, we have to chase it on land, in Antarctica or South America. Some even claim that Atlantis has already been found in the Aegean Sea, on the Island of Santorini. We will cover these theories, but our purpose is to search for a bridge between the new world and the old world. In other words, even if Santorini was declared as Atlantis, we would still dig for something bigger, because Atlantis does not equal only Plato. His work is a source, but one of many.
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However, Plato's work was not the only one to point to a 'lost continent'. There are legends of other old civilizations that mention lost worlds which disappeared into the waters, as a result of volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes. Some did not even mention the story, but drew a map with an island lying in the Atlantic Ocean.
Today people fight over the existence of Atlantis, but they all take into account one story, that is Plato's. We are not doing this though. While we do expose the theories and the ongoing research on this sunk land, we try to bind together everything we have to create The Atlantis, the base for "Dialogues", the base for Kircher's and Piri Reis's map, the course of the ancient legends. The result might not be called "Atlantis", but a variation of it. There are so many researchers that claim to have discovered "the lost continent", that any new found land can be a possible Atlantis. So the name becomes irrelevant to me.
We need to make a distinction between a pure story and reality.
Many scientists chose to seek Atlantis in the Mediterranean Sea, others, along the shores of Africa and Europe, and America, and other decided that, since we have no actual prove of its existence underwater, we have to chase it on land, in Antarctica or South America. Some even claim that Atlantis has already been found in the Aegean Sea, on the Island of Santorini. We will cover these theories, but our purpose is to search for a bridge between the new world and the old world. In other words, even if Santorini was declared as Atlantis, we would still dig for something bigger, because Atlantis does not equal only Plato. His work is a source, but one of many.
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