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another bit of land that fell into the sea

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posted on Apr, 25 2007 @ 06:28 AM
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the picture above shows the uk about 8000 years ago, it shows land submerged under the north sea and the channal could this be another location for atlantis. recent reaserch says that people where living her 8000 years ago, look at the land formation, any thing stand out. any thoughts on this



posted on Apr, 25 2007 @ 07:53 AM
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It was actually covered up in a gradual rise in the sea levels that took place at the end of the ice age, about 12,000-10,000 years ago. There were probably people living on the strip of land between Europe and England, but it doesn't match Plato's story.

Plato's story says that the Atlanteans were defeated by Athens, and Athens wasn't around some 10,000 years ago. He puts Atlantis as a sort of idealized Greek city-state, but one that falls prey to the sin of "hubris" (pride.) This was a major theme in Greek literature at the time, and their plays and poetry and songs and artwork were full of stories of great ruling houses and so forth that fell because of hubris.

So no. No match.

(by the way, Atlantis is fiction by Plato. If it was true, there'd be other Greek plays about the place (as there were about Troy.))



posted on Apr, 25 2007 @ 08:01 AM
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I do wonder (pure speculation) whether the final inundation of Doggerland might have been caused by the Storegga Slide tsunami. c8,000 years ago. Not that I think it ever inspired Plato's story, but it could have provided an origin for some British myths perhaps, much embellished over the millennia of camp fire stories?



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