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NO question about the location - and it disappeared about 10,000 years ago! It MAY have had a glorious capital too, as retold by Plato and it MAY have been the original home of the enigmatic 'Sea Peoples', who returned prodigal-like to Canaan and merged with the Canaanites to become the Phoenicians. There was an otherwise inexplicable quantum leap in seafaring technology when the Sea Peoples arrived! Atlanteans were probably early Haplogroup J, originally from the Levant. Location? NOT Santorini in the Mediterranean which was similarly catastrophic, but MUCH later... its destruction was well documented at the time. The REAL location? Just look at any good sea level map of the Atlantic and the North Atlantic Ridge is EXACTLY where Plato said Atlantis was! It was lost due to - normal techtonic movement (streching the ridge and lowering it) and - rising sea levels after the last ice age... Wikipedia say sea levels could have risen as much as **396ft** as the Ice Age ended about 10,000BC. This would have been fairly gradual, but would have led to a mass exodus of the population... and then - the massive eruption of Mount Horta was an extinction event that claimed the remaining population. All that remains are mountain tops and the dormant volcano. Everything is just as lush and green and beautiful as it must have been back then - but I'm not sure I would want to live there - the volcano may kick off again! Just Google for The Azores! |
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