Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest To Find The Sunken City

Conspiracy theories are everywhere in this world, one thing happens and people turn it into something that may be true or may not be true. Atlantis is a conspiracy theory because no one truly knows if it exists or not. Atlantis is supposedly an island in the Atlantic Ocean that is better than life itself. Atlantis existed hundreds of thousands of years ago when the Greek gods ruled over the world. Poseidon ruled Atlantis with his mortal wife Cleito, and were chosen to protect all of Atlantis. Atlantean’s had powers that could heal the ill, and their army was the strongest in the world. With all that power something happened that is unknown and caused the Atlantean army to be wiped out in a day and a night. The same thing happened to the island itself, a catastrophic flood and earthquake took over Atlantis and caused it to fall into the ocean.

Born in Athens in 437 B.C, Greek philosopher Plato is one of the most powerful thinkers in history. Coming from Greek aristocracy, Plato had political ambitions as a young man and appeared to follow the family tradition. However, Socrates and his dialectical method of inquiry, which was to question and answer everything to show ignorance, soon captivated Plato.

Pseudo-history, pseudo-science, and pseudo-archaeology have delivered ‘proof’ of numerous sites where Atlantis, the lost city of which Plato wrote, could have thrived and then suffered total destruction

many famous predictions about the lost continent of Atlantis. Cayce estimated the size of Atlantis

      Atlantis is known to most people as a legend or myth written by the Greek poet Plato, but is it possible that this lost continent really existed? Is it all legend or could there be some fact to it? Contrary to common belief there have been numerous geological and historical findings that actually give proof to the existence of this lost city. In the book Imagining Atlantis it tells us the story written by Plato. "According to ancient Egyptian temple records the Athenians fought an aggressive war against the rulers of Atlantis some nine thousand years earlier

Zerubavel would most likely answer the question “did Columbus discover America?” by pointing out that not only did Native Americans live on the continent before Columbus and Europe truly discovered it, but that there are findings of what seemed to be inscriptions, scripts—that infact, are legible—and several different sculptures with pre-Columbian faces on them, and “stone reliefs all over America, that stun puzzled observers with their unmistakably European, Semitic, African, and Oriental feature” (11).

Now with our modern technology there have been very recent large scale archaeological explorations in hopes of finding the lost city and its treasure. In 2012 a group of scientists who were looking for La Ciudad Blanca used a new type of technology to photograph the ground called LIDAR. The use of LIDAR offered a faster, cheaper, and safer way of searching through the thick rainforests of eastern Honduras rather then having groups of men wander through the rainforests with machetes in search of La Ciudad Blanca. While using LIDAR the scientists were able to gather more data in a week then they would be able to gather while on the ground in a

Atlantis is a city that was never found or even placed on a map but only mentioned in a book

Before I read this paper, I did not know about the Cahokia or the massive ceremonial mounds they built. It didn’t surprise me that they had the knowledge and man power to do it; I just didn’t know they did it. I mainly just learned of what technology they had, but wasn’t surprised that they had it, such as woodhenge.

The Bahamas is a very beautiful, and scary, place. The tourist sites aren't run down, the people there clean it. Something that is like the island is the cruise ship, in the sense that they are both very elegant. The people that lived there had a very laid back lifestyle that anyone would love. If I had a choice, I would live there.

Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon wrote of a fictitious island in a short story called The New Atlantis. The island Bensalem is unlike any other in terms of societal advancement, however, with strict laws to follow. Power within the leaders is needed to create and mandate the laws on Bensalem. The story illustrates three different types of leaders with that power: religion, government, and scientists. While all three are relevant, scientists and religious leaders are the two magnified throughout The New Atlantis.

Stories such as these prompted men like Columbus and, later, Coronado, to seek out the elusive Seven Cities of Antilia, regardless of the cost in time, men, and finances. They were sure the island was out there, lurking somewhere in the misty folds of the Atlantic.

Plato, in addition to being a philosopher, wrestled at the Olympic level, is one of the classical Greek authors, mathematicians and the founder of The Academy, the first higher learning institute in the west. In short, Plato is one of the great thinkers in history and his contributions to philosophy, ethics and politics are many and varied. One of Plato’s main philosophical ideas is based on the idea that the world

He knew the ability of the book, however, he did not know the limitations of the book. He had not realized that The Book created the other book to be inferior. Atlantis became way too powerful, but luckily none of the citizens of Atlantis wanted to start a war. Bhalenox blamed himself for allowing this to happen. Before Atlantis had gotten too out of hand, he had tried to destroy it using The Book. First, he tried to destroy the new book… no luck. Second, he tried to destroy the island of Atlantis… still no luck. He figured out then that The Book was not able to destroy its creations.

Growing up in Athens, Greece in around 420 B.C., Plato was born into the perfect place for a young philosophizing man such as himself. He was well educated from an early age, showing a proclivity for music, writing, and gymnastics. (Diogenes). Young Plato, much like many boys in their teenage