If we find Atlantis would we change history books?

originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
The invasion would have happened over a short period of time.

You would be very lucky to find a relic left over from the Nazi invasion of Russia lying around in 3000 AD. Nevermind finding one in 12,000 AD.

we can't possibly know how long it took them to invade all the non existent (at the time) countries in the Med, including the Egyptians (that at the time were nomadic goat herders in the Sahara). But surely the non existent (at the time) Athenians would have left some evidence of their existence?

Unless, of course, Plato either got his dates wrong. Or made it all up .....

a reply to: aristorat
Atlantis is probably off the west coast of Africa under 400 ft of water.

The Younger Dryas event 12,600 years ago, Biblical flood stories, Atlantis disappearing, gobekli tepe being so far out of the historical timeline, all of it ties together. After the impact event the sea levels rose and destroyed the coastal city state of Atlantis. The people migrated east across the Sahara. At the time the Sahara wasn't a desert yet. Some settled in Egypt, some went further east. They were the ancestors to the builders of the Sphinx, Gobekli Tepe, probably others yet to be discovered. Just my theory..

If we found it, it would mostly explain why we have such great civilization growth over the last 3000 years but the level of human intelligence is relatively the same for 150K years.

Social utopia is just a romanticized fairy tale. There were plenty of barbaric wars in ancient times.