{"id":87855,"date":"2019-06-28T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87855"},"modified":"2019-06-16T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T19:23:10","slug":"weekend-open-thread-ancient-atlantiss-possible-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87855","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread-Ancient Atlantis’s Possible Location"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Atlantis’s possible location. This area has stronger arguments in its favor. (Dhani Irwanto)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Using Plato’s story, as well as on what’s known regarding history, scholars have proposed Atlantis’s possible location. Others have attempted to use formulas, evidence, and other arguments to try to place Atlantis in other locations. This ranged from locations in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Then, we have scholars who’ve argued, using common history knowledge as a backdrop, as well as Plato’s story, that Atlantis was actually on the other side of the world.<\/p>\n

Plato’s timeline for its disappearance places it at the end of the last major glaciation (Pleistocene).\u00a0 The geography during that time was different. For example, our shorelines were generally further out. In Southeast Asia, the landmass stretched from Indochina to Borneo.<\/p>\n

This exposed landmass justified much of the description that Plato used. Scientists looked in that area and found evidence of terrain that would’ve been friendly to agriculture.<\/p>\n

For those who could stomach academic writing, this link<\/a> provides details on this argument. Included on this webpage is a gif image showing a time lapse of what temperatures would’ve been like, throughout the year, during the last glaciation.<\/p>\n

During Plato’s time, there was no “Pacific Ocean”. They considered the entire body of water surrounding the earth as, “Atlantic”.\u00a0They had no knowledge of either North or South America. That area was presumably nothing but a continuation of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Contrary to a common misconception, our ancient ancestors knew that a person traveling west from the Hispanic Peninsula, and continuing west, would eventually end up in the Far East… However, traveling that route was the same thing to them that traveling to Alpha Centauri is to us today.<\/p>\n

This video uses Plato’s description to show that this area is possibly the area that he was talking about. Then, using a strategy that scientists use to give them hints on what to look for, or to test whether they found something or not, they show a possible image of what it could look like today.<\/p>\n