Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be foundNORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) – A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.
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To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.
The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.
Freund's discovery in central Spain of a strange series of "memorial cities," built in Atlantis' image by its refugees after the city's likely destruction by a tsunami, gave researchers added proof and confidence, he said.
Atlantis residents who did not perish in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities there, he added.
The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.
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Interesting! I hadn't heard about that. Of course the pedant in me once to say--"what makes that 'Atlantis" particularly, other than it grabs more headlines?"
Still for an rpg, scientific rigor be damned!
Still for an rpg, scientific rigor be damned!
I've never let scientific rigor stand in the way of a good RPG idea. Crackpot ideas make some of the best campaign ideas.
"used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site".
Interesting article, but this sentence reeks of ambiguous reporter-speak, intended to meet word count requirements while sounding authoritative. "Digital" mapping, is different from regular mapping, how? And wow, they used underwater "technology" -- cool!
Maybe the RPG idea is that a citizen of Atlantis is deliberately writing easily refuted articles to put people off the trail!
Ha... anyway, just a nitpick. I love the blog, especially the Mythic stuff.
@Ken: Maybe the RPG idea is that a citizen of Atlantis is deliberately writing easily refuted articles to put people off the trail!
Now you've got the requisite conspiracy angle. :)
Anyway, thanks for the praise. I hope to do more Mythic stuff soon.
> Debate about whether Atlantis truly existed has lasted for thousands of years. Plato's "dialogues" from around 360 B.C. are the only known historical sources of information about the iconic city.
I never thought Plato's Atlantis allegory was concerned with history at all.
This just in: scientists have also found Plato's Republic in 13th century Iceland! ;)
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