On November 14, 2004 an
American architect, Robert Sarmast announced that he
had found the lost city of Atlantis,
by using solar scans he was able to find manmade walls that matched the
description of the structures described by Plato. The site lies 1,500m deep in
the Mediterranean Sea off the island
of Cyprus. Plato’s Timaeus and his Critias are the
only written accounts of Atlantis; in these Plato gives some information on the
size and location of the island
of Atlantis. Some skeptics still wonder whether Atlantis might be a work of
fiction, an extended parable intended to illustrate Plato’s philosophy of the
ideal government. Can anyone really believe that humanity and civilization
actually arose in the tiny island
of Cyprus or, even less,
in the nearby abyssal plains that were never above water since the last five
million years or so? The Mediterranean was full (or almost) during the whole
Ice Age and could the flooding then happens “in a single day and night of pain”
as Plato affirms, or did this filling take years (at a maximum one inch per
hour) then centuries allowing everyone to be prepared. As I look at the Mediterranean Sea I cannot help wonder what if it was all
one land with no boundaries and what if underneath the soil that I now walk
upon lays my Atlantis.