A German scientist named Dr. Rainer Kuehne believes satellite images have located the fabled sunken city of Atlantis–ironically, above ground in Spain.
An American researcher named Robert Sarmast believes maps of underwater geography have revealed the location of Atlantis–underwater off the coast of Cyprus.
Meanwhile, representatives of Stargate Command downplayed rumors that another American scientist–Dr. Daniel Jackson–had found an ancient, extraterrestrial tablet that located the lost city of Atlantis–in the distant Pegasus Galaxy.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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For some reason, your first link opens up my e-mail program. Hm.
That’s pretty cool, though. (Not the link–Atlantis =) .)
Problem fixed. Thanks!
To me, Helike is the only reasonable candidate other than Santorini. Interestingly, Helike was consumed by a tidal wave only about 50 years before Plato’s account of Atlantis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/helike.shtml
The SGC is probably right on these things.
But which galaxy in Pegasus?
I wouldn’t rule out the Black Sea flood. It was far too slow and limited for the Noachian epoch flood, but the time is about right for Atlantis – if we can trust Solon’s account, and the Egyptians had some odd ideas on chronology, including doubling enteries. You also have an area in the north of that basin that fits the accounts reasonably well.
We just have to assume that what Plato called “the pillars of Hercules” were really the Bosphorus.
The last one is the most likely, IMHO.