Atlantis & Lemuria

An American researcher on the trail of the lost city of Atlantis has discovered evidence of man-made structures submerged in the sea between Cyprus and Syria, a member of his team said Saturday. Robert Sarmast, who is convinced the fabled city lurks in the watery depths off Cyprus, will give details of his findings Sunday. "Something has been found to indicate very strongly that there are man-made structures somewhere between Cyprus andSyria," a spokesperson for the mission told Reuters.

The mystery of Atlantis, both whether it existed and why it disappeared, has fired the imagination of explorers for decades. Many believe the ancient civilization was destroyed in a massive flood, a cataclysm which many ancient cultures believe occurred around 9,000 BC. Greek mythology says Atlantis was a powerful nation whose residents were so corrupted by greed and power that Zeus destroyed it. Theories place Atlantis either somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, or the Greek island of Santorini, or off theCeltic Ridge of Britain or even further afield in the South China Sea. Sarmast's theory is that Cyprus is the pinnacle of Atlantis, with the rest of it about a mile below sea level. His expedition took place some 70 miles off the eastern coast of Cyprus toward Syria.

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A team of international archaeologists have set sail from Mexico to seek a sunken city that has been dubbed the "Mayan Atlantis", press reports said on Monday. Quoted by the Mexican newspaper Milenio, team leader Paulina Zelintzky, a Russian archaeologist, said sonar equipment had given indications there could be ancientstructures on the ocean floor between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Cuba.According to Milenio, resonances showed geometric images similar to pyramids and round structures.

The archaeologists will search the area using a mini-submarine known as "Deep Worker".Signs there could be Mayan remains on the seabed first surfaced in 2000 when the area next to Cuba's westernmost tip was being explored for petroleum.Before beginning theirproject, the archaeologists had to raise $2-million (about R13-million). They set sail from the port of Progreso in eastern Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula.

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A Swedish academic who believes Ireland is the ancient land of Atlantis flew into Dublin today amid a storm of controversy about his theories. Dr Ulf Erlingsson is on a three-day tour of the country to prove the Emerald Isle is actually linked with the utopian empire which was believed to have been destroyed by a flood-wave 12,000 years ago. He will visit Newgrange and Knowth passage tombs and the Hill of Tara in Co Meath which he claims were actual remnants of Atlantis as described by Greek philosopher Plato. Whether Atlantis actually existed or not has provoked heated debate among scientists and archaeologists for centuries. Themyth spawned several wild theories and even sparked a 1970s TV series and more recently - a 2001 Disney movie.

But a University College Galway academic dismissed Dr Erlingsson's theories as "bizarre" and added that it was "impossible to compare a mythical planet which may never have existed with a living, breathing country". Geography Department head Prof Ulf Strohmayer went on: "Mythical places like Atlantis are only there to satisfy some longing in the human psyche for a utopia-type land. "We create them to tell ourselves that if we screw up on this planet human life will still live on in a better place somewhere else."But Dr Erlingsson, aged 44, hit back: "I expect to have myknockers. But we must assume that I am right until others can prove I am wrong."Dublin archaeologist Dr Ruth Johnson described Dr Erlingsson's views as "interesting" and "definitely revisionist".But she added: "It's like the Holy Grail or Noah's Ark - people will always try to prove they existed by linking them with actual places."Plato wrote that Atlantis supported a sophisticated, modern civilisation while the rest of the world was still stuck in the Stone Age.Scientists have already claimed that Atlantis could be at the bottom of the mid-Atlantic Ocean or somewhere in the Aegean Sea.But Prof Erlingsson claims in his book 'Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mappingthe Fairy. ...

A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato ofthe fabled utopia.

Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. The research has been reported as an ongoing project in the online edition of the journal Antiquity. Satellitephotos of a salt marsh region known as Marisma de Hinojos near the city of Cadiz show two rectangular structures in the mud and parts of concentric rings that may once have surrounded them. Read FullArticle