Atlantis | The Conspiracy Theories

 

The Atlantis 

1. The Book Of Atlantis 

Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that sank into the ocean overnight and was a beautiful and developed city.

The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, not just a legend concocted by Plato, did not emerge until the late 19th century. In his 1882 book, Atlantis, the Antediluvian World, author Ignatius Donnelly argued that the achievements of the ancient world (such as metallurgy, language, and agriculture) must have been passed down from an earlier, more advanced civilization, because ancient people were not sophisticated enough to develop these advancements on their own.

Assuming that the Atlantic Ocean was only a few hundred feet deep, Donnelly described a continent that was inundated by receding ocean waters and sank in the exact location Plato said it sank: just outside the "Pillars of Hercules," two rocks in the Atlantic Ocean that mark the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Even after better understanding of modern oceanography and plate tectonics poked holes in his shifting water theory, some people stuck to Donnelly's theory, mostly because of Plato's adherence to his theory of placing Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic.

2. Bermuda Triangle Theory on Atlantis 

Atlantis was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle.

Inspired by Donnelly, many subsequent authors expanded his theories and added their own speculations about where Atlantis might be. One of these authors was Charles Berlitz, the grandson of the founder of the famous language schools, and the author of several books on paranormal phenomena. In the 1970s, Berlitz claimed that Atlantis was a real continent located off the Bahamas that had fallen victim to the infamous "Bermuda Triangle," an area of the Atlantic where many ships disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Supporters of this theory point to the discovery of what appear to be man-made walls and roads off the coast of Bimini, although scientists have evaluated these structures and found that they are natural beach-reef formations.

3. Is Atlantis Was Antartica?

Another theory – that Atlantis was actually a more temperate version of present-day Antarctica – is based on the work of Charles Hapgood, whose 1958 book Earth's Shifting Crust included a foreword by Albert Einstein. According to Hapgood, the Earth's crust shifted about 12,000 years ago, causing the continent that became Antarctica to be displaced from a location much farther north than it is today. This more temperate continent was home to an advanced civilization, but the sudden shift to its current cold location doomed the civilization's inhabitants – the Atlanteans – and their magnificent city was buried under layers of ice. Hapgood's theory came out before the scientific world had achieved a full understanding of plate tectonics

4. Is Atlantis was not real ?

The story of Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the Black Sea flood.

This theory holds that Atlantis itself was fictional, but the story of its destruction was inspired by a real historical event: the breaching of the Bosporus by the Mediterranean Sea and the subsequent flooding of the Black Sea, around 5600 B.C. At that time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake half its current size. The flood submerged the civilizations that flourished on its shores with hundreds of feet of seawater in a short time (perhaps in less than a year). As the inhabitants of the region dispersed, they spread stories of the deluge and possibly reached Plato's description of Atlantis thousands of years later. Atlantis didn't really exist - Plato invented it.

Most historians and scientists throughout history have come to the conclusion that Plato's description of the lost kingdom of Atlantis was fictitious. According to this argument, the Greek philosopher fabricated Atlantis as his vision of an ideal civilization and presented the story of its destruction as a cautionary tale about the gods punishing human arrogance. No written records of Atlantis exist other than Plato's dialogues, along with many other texts that have survived from ancient Greece. Furthermore, despite modern advances in oceanography and seafloor mapping, no trace of such a sunken civilization has ever been found.