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originally posted by: lee54321
a reply to: punkinworks10
Thanks for your opinions, as per the 360 miles, looking at the core data's showing melt water pulse's A & B something caused a huge surge in sea levels at roughly the same time as a mass extinction event. This to me says that possibly at at least 4 points in time (water rising & subsiding x 2) the Richat structure could of been closer or maybe even covered by the Atlantic Ocean?.. Also aren't there hundreds of flood myths from all around the world going back to these times and after?
And yes, thanks again, I do understand what "FOSSILS" means, hence why I used the term bones... I will try to find a link as I'm sure the bones and shells of which I speak, certainly weren't fossilized (fairly sure shells were found hundreds of miles inland in the visiting atlantis documentary too).
cheers
originally posted by: Harte
a reply to: Dragonfli
There is an extremely ancient river flowing in a bed not 20 miles from my home. The Mississippi River. I'm not "in water."
Plato tells us that the canal used by boats to sail from the sea into Atlantis was 50 stadia long.
50 stadia is slightly less than 6 miles.
From the sea, not from a river.
Harte
originally posted by: Dragonfli
a reply to: Harte
I don't see how your comment about where you live is relevant to my post. However, the measurement from the sea is based on the assumption that all of the details recounted by Plato were correct. Those are very precise measurements for a story never apparently written by Solon, I find it hard to imagine Solon would have remembered everything he learned in Sais accurately without some sort of notes, yet none have ever been found.
originally posted by: DragonfliWhat if he based the story of Atlantis on an actual place but did not remember the numbers correctly? Details such as land mass and minerals mined there may stand out, but this story played the telephone game of sorts prior to Plato penning it.
originally posted by: Dragonfli
a reply to: punkinworks10
I'm just learning about this theory, can you share more information about the horses please? If any of this can be believed, perhaps the horses were imported as they were apparently well travelled. I'm really on the fence about this because of the striking similarity to Plato's account, but the devil is in the details.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: Dragonfli
a reply to: punkinworks10
I'm just learning about this theory, can you share more information about the horses please? If any of this can be believed, perhaps the horses were imported as they were apparently well travelled. I'm really on the fence about this because of the striking similarity to Plato's account, but the devil is in the details.
Plato wrote that the island had horses (and elephants) and that one of the rings was devoted to horse racing.
I have found a few interesting things. For example, horses weren't even domesticated until around 4,000BC ish.