OK, so there's these so-called "undersea archaeologists" who claim they've found what they call the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis and have released grainy images of their discovery, in the video below.
Here's how the Huffington Post reported it:
Undersea archaeologists have found the ruins of an ancient city on the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, and researchers claim that it is the fabled and lost city of Atlantis. The satellite photos do show something that could be a city, and the researchers believe that what they've found would predate the pyramids of Egypt. Indeed they claim to be able to make out a pyramid and other city-like structures from the satellite photos.
The archaeologists have so far refused to divulge their identities or the location in the Caribbean. They say they are raising money for an expedition to confirm their findings.
So, for the gullible, here are a few red flags that this is yet another "we've discovered the remains of Bigfoot" style hoax.
♦They don't say who they are.
♦They won't say where the ruins are.
♦They're trying to raise money.
As for whether Atlantis really existed, well, most ancient accounts are traceable back to Plato, who probably either made it up or repeated old stories from other people who probably made it up. Even if the stories are based on some real lost sunken civilization, it's been speculated that the accounts refer to the "lost civilizations" on the Mediterranean islands of Sicily, Crete or Sardinia, not to something in the Caribbean or the middle of the Atlantic, which is what Plato said. At least not until modern times.
(There is an alternate theory that Atlantis was really a city created by the Ancients, who relocated it from Earth to the Pegasus galaxy, but that's another story.)
Of course, we skeptics could be wrong and this could indeed be one of the archaeological discoveries of the centuries.
So what do you think?
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Not surprising they aren't giving the location. I'm sure they want to keep that quite until they can get more definitive evidence. Much of the sea floor has not been really explored. Over the centuries there have been many changes to coastlines across the globe, some drastic due to earthquakes, volcanoes and the such. It is possible Plato's story of Atlantis was based on a real city that was the victim of some catastrophe.
And I've discovered an alien in my cupboard. Send money.
So no names, no details, grainy photos and want money. Yeah OK.
To me, it looks like Photoshopped circuit board photos.
The article above is itself a bit misleading as the researchers supposedly are not claiming that this is Atlantis. See original story (paragraph 3) at:
www.heralddeparis.com/previously-undiscovered-ancient-city-found-on-caribbean-sea-floor/65855
On another hand, yes, asking for money while being anonymous and submitting rather blurry looking pictures...
People are retards, just look at how much Alex Jones makes pulling this crap.
you yould be amazed of the finds in and around cuba like the sunken city off cuba towards the gulf of mexico,mabe not atlantis but a pre mesoamerican civilazation
I stumbled upon this last year while exploring the ocean depths on Google Earth and have examined the pictures extensively. Its about 100 miles long by about 80 miles wide, and obviously not produced naturally. It cannot be marks left behind by fishing trawlers for the width of the channels or “grid line” is a mile or more wide and very deep. Furthermore the oceans are over fished, if these were marks left by fishing boats I am sure the entire ocean bottom would be scarred up by these same marks. Somebody mentioned waste dumping, that’s just stupid… why do you need to dig channels that are a mile or more wide and a hundred miles long to dump barrels of waste products. I don’t know what this is but its big and very interesting, being discovered by ordinary people exploring the ocean bottom on Google Earth.
Plato did mention Atlantis was east of Gibraltar in the “real sea” Atlantic Ocean. And the land mass is gradually moving and sinking westward beneath the fault line that can b
Yes send money.... Just send money.... like Jerry's annual telethon
send money for Jerry's kids or is it for Jerry.
In all likelihood this will turn out to be just one more false alarm There is, by the way, no chance at all of finding any ruins of Atlantis. The lost isle (off Portugal) was blown to bits and sank in a supervolcanic eruption in the 17th century BC. There is nothing left to find(See Roots of Cataclysm: Geopulsation and the Atlantis Supervolcano in History.
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