Atlantis has been found! Atlantis spotted from space

Two scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, working off the coast of Cuba and using robotic submarines, confirmed that a giant ancient city exists on the ocean floor. In the part of the city that was found, several sphinxes, four pyramids and other structures were discovered, all of them located deep in the Bermuda Triangle area.

According to some studies on the Cuban underwater pyramid complex, the city was destroyed simultaneously due to rising water levels and the sinking of land into the sea. This correlates specifically with the legend of Atlantis.

The disaster may have occurred at the end of the last ice age. The ice in the Arctic has melted catastrophically. This has caused sea levels to rise rapidly around the world, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Coastlines changed, huge tracts of land were lost, islands and even some continents disappeared forever.

During the Ice Age, sea levels were nearly 400 feet lower than they are today. Once the water began to rise, it brought about the end of Atlantis.

Presumably, neither modern technology nor those of that time could have saved Atlantis from its watery grave. The evidence that the land known today as the Caribbean sank into the sea is compelling.

According to journalist Luis Fernandez Marian, the city was discovered decades ago, but access to it was blocked due to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"The US government received evidence of the existence of an underwater city during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 60s of the last century. A nuclear submarine was then moving along the Gulf Stream deep in the sea, where they discovered the structure of the pyramids. They immediately took control of the place so that it would not turn out to be in the hands of the Soviet Union," Fernandez said.

A scientific group of researchers, archaeologists, and oceanographers discovered the ruins of ancient buildings on the ocean floor, which were located at a depth of 600 meters. They say that this city is Atlantis.

Evidence that the island of Cuba could have been part of a once powerful culture is provided by scientist Paulina Zalitsky. She shows engraved symbols and pictograms on the pyramid, and they bear similarities to the oldest designs found on the Cuban island itself. Using deep-sea equipment, scientists discovered pyramids similar in shape but larger in size than Giza in Egypt. They estimated that the underwater pyramid was also made of very heavy stones, weighing several hundred tons. Incredibly, the ancient city also has magnificent sphinxes and "stones that are arranged like Stonehenge, with writing in an unknown language engraved on the stones," Fernandez reports.

Another huge pyramid, which appears to be a crystal, was photographed and found in the Bermuda Triangle, and is believed to have originally been discovered in 1960 by a French doctor who led an expedition of divers from France and America. This pyramid is larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

"This new evidence for the discovery of the lost sunken Atlantis could change the entire human history," says Fernandez.

Fernandez writes: "It is confirmed that the stones were hewn, cut and polished to fit together to form huge structures. The strange writings, some of them similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs, are poorly understood, except that they are very "are numerous and are found in almost all parts of the buildings. Symbols and drawings have also been discovered, the meaning of which is unknown."

Research into Atlantis, called Project Exploramar, will continue to better understand the secrets of the ancient mega-city located in the Bermuda Triangle.

While talking with a scientist about the possibility that the found ruins really belong to Atlantis, Fernandez received the following response from the expert:

"...In the cultures of Yucatan, among the aborigines of these places, perhaps the Olmecs or very primitive civilizations in Yucatan, in the northern part of Central America, to this day you can find stories according to which there was an island that sank from a cataclysm. And this The island is called Atlanticu."

This also fits into the stories about the sudden death of the wonderful Atlantis. Atlanticu. Atlantis. Local Aboriginal people still call it that in their history.

Chatting about the exploration of the mega-city of a lost civilization with leading scientist Paulina Zalitsky, Fernandez asked: "Who built it?"

“When we published the first news about this discovery,” she said, “the University of Veracusa was interested in our work, and we recorded images of these structures on the seabed. In particular, the Institute of Anthropology of the Archaeological University invited me. They carried out research on parts and ruins of the Olmec civilization. When they saw these underwater images, they found similarities and parallels with the ruins found during archaeological excavations carried out by the institute."

The Olmecs and other indigenous peoples possess morphological markers that indicate the primacy of their arrival on this continent. This means that they came from Cuba. And a very large earthquake was about to occur, causing their land to sink. Morphology shows that the local peoples belong to three families that were saved. One of these families came to the Veracruz coast and became the Olmecs. Others came to Central America and went to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and these families created the civilization of the Americas as we know it today because they spread all their knowledge.

When these anthropologists saw images of an underwater city, and several stone monoliths bearing symbols and inscriptions, they identified them with Olmec motifs. And they were very surprised by this circumstance.

The Olmecs are descended from Atlantean survivors, and the much more advanced culture of the ancient civilization was destroyed by a flood at the end of the Ice Age. The world was transformed and the supercivilization disappeared. Memories of her were preserved for thousands of years only in legends and remained in the message of the ancient philosopher Plato.

But Atlantis was a reality: scientists Paul Weinzweig and Paulina Zalitsky found it.

This sensational discovery has already spread all over the world. It seems that the mythical sunken continent described by Plato has finally been found, and it is in the Atlantic Ocean, not far from the coast of Cuba, in the very center of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle! Thanks to two enthusiastic scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Paulina Zalitsky, the world community received sensational photographs of the underwater mega-city, which clearly show giant pyramids, megalithic buildings, numerous structures with unknown inscriptions and even sphinxes.

The research was carried out using deep-sea robotic submarines. Thanks to them, at least four pyramids and several sphinxes were discovered - exactly the same as in Egypt, but much larger in size than the pyramids at Giza. All buildings are located 600 feet below sea level. Under the layer of silt, numerous structures were also found - buildings, columns and sculptures, the purpose of which is not yet clear.

It turns out that the underwater giant city was discovered back in the 60s of the 20th century by submarines from the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Access to it was immediately blocked so that this find would not fall into the hands of the USSR. 50 years later, scientists began exploring the underwater coast of Cuba in the hope of confirming the existence of a submerged city, and their efforts were crowned with success.

Researchers believe that the city was flooded as a result of a massive flood at the end of the last Ice Age. Needless to say, this discovery completely coincides with Plato’s stories about Atlantis, which were long considered a legend. At that time the water level was 400 feet lower. Rapidly melting glaciers have dramatically raised sea levels, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Apparently, no Atlantean technology could save the city from this global catastrophe, just as modern technology could not save us now. The topography of the land changed - islands and even entire island continents were flooded. This supposedly happened 12,900 years ago. All that remains of Atlantis is Cuba.

Evidence that Cuba is a remnant of a once powerful Atlantic civilization comes from writings and symbols discovered by Paulina Zalitsky in Cuba, which are identical to writings found on underwater structures. Scientists note that this ancient language is not known to us, but some of the symbols found are similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The blocks from which the underwater pyramids are built weigh several hundred tons. As in the Egyptian pyramids, they fit perfectly together and have a smooth polished surface. In addition, some of the buildings are similar to the famous Stonehenge, and the sphinxes are exactly the same as the famous Egyptian Sphinx, only larger in size.

Is the discovered city really the famous Atlantis? Experts note that the indigenous cultures that still exist on the Yucatan Peninsula and in the northern part of Central America, as well as the Olmec culture that preceded them, according to the legends existing among these peoples, originate from an island that sank as a result of the cataclysm. They still call this island Atlanticu.

Paulina Zalitsky also said that when they first published photographs of the findings, the Institute of Anthropology, which was conducting archaeological research on the ruins of the Olmec civilization, became interested in them. Archaeologists say they found many parallels and similar elements between these photographs and the Olmec buildings they examined, even down to similar symbols and patterns. Anthropologists were very surprised by this fact.

The Olmecs and other indigenous peoples have a language morphology that clearly points to their origins in the continent of Atlantis. They came from the direction of Cuba, and their continent sank as a result of a giant earthquake. The morphology of the aboriginal peoples suggests that they descended from three families that were rescued after the flood. The first family landed on the shores of Veracruz and presumably formed the Olmec civilization. The rest moved into central America, reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and formed the Indian American civilization as we know it today.

Independent diving teams from the USA and France have also confirmed the existence of another giant crystal-like pyramid at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. It was first discovered in 1960 and is probably also larger in size than the Cheops pyramid.

The exploration of the underwater metropolis will continue as part of a project called Exploramar. Needless to say, these discoveries can change the entire human history?

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We'll go a different way

Let's look for Atlantis in a different way, which in this case (judging by the known proposals) has not been used by anyone before. First, let's take the method of exclusion, where Atlantis could not exist. As we narrow the circle, we will use all the “reference points” that were proposed by the ancient Greek scientist, sage (428-347 BC) Plato (Aristocles) in his works – “Timaeus” and “Critius”. These documents provide the only and fairly detailed description of Atlantis, its inhabitants and historical events related to the life of the legendary island.

“Aristotle taught me to satisfy my mind only with what reasoning convinces me of, and not just with the authority of teachers. Such is the power of truth: you try to refute it, but your very attacks elevate it and give it great value,” said the Italian philosopher, physicist, and mathematician Galileo Galilei in the 16th century.

Below is a map of the world as it was represented in Greece during the times of Plato and Herodotus (IV - V centuries BC).

Mediterranean Sea

So, let's start cutting off the ends. Atlantis could not be located in any far corner of the world and it was not even in the Atlantic Ocean. You will ask why? Because the war (according to the history of the narrative) between Athens and Atlantis could not take place anywhere except in the Mediterranean Sea on this “patch of civilization” due to the limited development of mankind. The world is big, but the developed world is small. Near neighbors fight more often and constantly among themselves than distant neighbors. Athens simply would not have been able to reach the borders of Atlantis with its army and fleet if it was located somewhere far away. Water and vast distances were an insurmountable obstacle.

“This barrier was insurmountable for people, because ships and navigation did not yet exist,” says Plato in his work Critias.

In ancient Greek mythology, which arose many thousands of years after the death of Atlantis, the only (!) hero Hercules (according to Homer in the 12th century BC) accomplished a feat, according to legend, traveling to the farthest western point of the world - to the edge of the Mediterranean Sea.

“When the Atlas Mountains appeared on Hercules’ way, he did not climb them, but cut his way through, thus creating the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic. This point served as the border for sailors in ancient times, therefore, in a figurative sense, the “Pillars of Hercules” are the end of the world, the limit of the world. And the expression “to reach the pillars of Hercules” means “to reach the limit.”

See the picture The Strait of Gibraltar today is the place where the historical hero Hercules reached.

In the foreground is the Rock of Gibraltar on the edge of continental Europe, and in the background on the coast of Africa is Mount Jebel Musa in Morocco.

What western limit of the earth Hercules reached (“the edge of the world”) was unattainable for other mortals. Thus, Atlantis was closer to the center of ancient civilization - it was in the Mediterranean Sea. But where exactly?

The Pillars of Hercules (according to Plato’s narrative, behind which lay the island of Atlantis) there were seven pairs in the Mediterranean Sea at that time (Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bosporus, Kerch Strait, Mouth of the Nile, etc.). The pillars were located at the entrances to the straits, and all had the same names - Hercules (later the Latin name - Hercules). The pillars served as landmarks and beacons for ancient sailors.

“First of all, let us briefly recall that, according to legend, nine thousand years ago there was a war between those peoples who lived on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules and all those who lived on this side: we have to tell about this war... How we have already mentioned, this was once an island larger in size than Libya and Asia (not their entire geographical territory, but rather the areas inhabited in ancient times), but now it has collapsed due to earthquakes and turned into impassable silt, blocking the path for sailors who would try to sail from us into the open sea, and making sailing unthinkable.” (Plato, Critias).

This information is about Atlantis, which dates back to the 6th century BC. came from the Egyptian priest Timaeus from the city of Sais, located on the coast of Africa, in the western Nile Delta. The current name of this village is Sa el-Hagar (see below picture of the Nile River delta).

When Timaeus said that the barrier from the remains of the sunken Atlantis blocked the path “from us to the open sea,” then speaking about us (about himself and about Egypt), this clearly testified to the location of Atlantis. That is, it lies in the direction of travel from the Egyptian mouth of the Nile to the wide waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

In ancient times, the entrance to the main navigable (western) mouth of the Nile, nicknamed the mouth of Hercules, that is, Hercules, where the city of Irakleum was located and there was a temple in honor of Hercules, was also called the pillars of Hercules. Over time, the silt and floating material from the sunken Atlantis were carried across the sea, and the island itself sank even deeper into the abyss.

“Since many great floods occurred in nine thousand years (and that is how many years passed from those times before Plato), the earth did not accumulate in the form of any significant shallows, as in other places, but was washed away by the waves and then disappeared into the abyss.” (Plato, Critias).

Crete

Next, we exclude other, impossible locations. Atlantis could not have been located in the Mediterranean Sea north of the island of Crete. Today in that area there are countless small islands scattered throughout the waters, which does not correspond to the story of the flooding (!), and by this very fact excludes this entire territory. But that's not even the main thing. There would not be enough area to accommodate Atlantis (according to the description of its size) in the sea north of Crete.

The expedition of the famous explorer of the deep sea, a French oceanographer, to the area north of Crete on the periphery of the islands of Thira (Strongele), Fera, discovered the remains of an ancient sunken city, but from the above it follows that it most likely belongs to another civilization than Atlantis.

In the archipelago of islands of the Aegean Sea, earthquakes and disasters associated with volcanic activity are known, leading to local subsidence of the earth, and according to new evidence, they are occurring in our time. For example, a recently sunken medieval fortress in the Aegean Sea near the city of Marmaris in a bay on the coast of Turkey.

Between Cyprus, Crete and Africa

Narrowing the search, we come to the conclusion that only one thing remains - Atlantis could only be in one place opposite the mouth of the Nile - between the islands of Crete, Cyprus and the northern coast of Africa. She is there today at a depth and lies, having fallen into a deep basin of the sea.

The collapse of an almost oval water area with influxes from the shores, horizontal wrinkling (from sliding) of sedimentary rocks towards the center of the “funnel” is clearly visible from an online review of the seabed from space. The bottom in this place resembles a pit, sprinkled with soft sedimentary rock on top; there is no hard “crust of the continental mantle” underneath it. Only visible on the body of the Earth is a hollow inward that is not overgrown with the firmament.

The Egyptian priest Timaeus, in his story about the location of the silt from the flooded Atlantis, gives a link to the Pillars of Hercules (it was logical for him to say - those closest to him), located at the mouth of the Western Nile.

In another case (later, already in Greece), when Plato describes the power of Atlantis, we are already talking about other pillars, as mentioned above, in the Mediterranean there were then seven of them. When Plato presented the text of the work (based on the retelling of Solon and Critias), the Egyptian priest Timaeus (the primary source of the narrative) had been dead for 200 years by that time, and there was no one to clarify the information about which pillars the conversation was going on. Therefore, subsequent confusion arose with the location of Atlantis.

“After all, according to our records, your state (Athens) put a limit on the insolence of countless military forces that set off to conquer all of Europe and Asia, and kept their path from the Atlantic Sea. […] On this island, called Atlantis, a kingdom of amazing size and power arose, whose power extended over the entire island, many other islands and part of the mainland, and moreover, on this side of the strait they took possession of Libya (northern Africa ) up to Egypt and Europe up to Tirrenia (west coast of Italy). (Plato, Timaeus).

The sea that washed the island of Atlantis (between Crete, Cyprus and Egypt) was called the Atlantic in ancient times; it was located in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the modern seas: the Aegean, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian.

Subsequently, due to an error in linking Atlantis not to the Nile, but to the Gibraltar pillars, the name “Atlantic” sea automatically spread to the ocean beyond the strait. The once inland Atlantic Sea, due to the inaccuracy of interpretation of Timaeus’ story and description (by Plato, Critias or Solon), became the Atlantic Ocean. As the Russian proverb says: “We got lost in three pines” (more precisely, in seven pairs of pillars). When Atlantis sank into the abyss of the sea, the Atlantic Sea disappeared with it.

Timaeus, narrating the history of Atlantis, noted that the victory of Athens brought freedom from slavery to all other peoples (including the Egyptians) who had not yet been enslaved by the Atlanteans - “on this side of the Pillars of Hercules,” speaking about themselves - about Egypt.

“It was then, Solon, that your state showed the whole world a brilliant proof of its valor and strength: surpassing everyone in its strength of spirit and experience in military affairs, it first stood at the head of the Hellenes, but due to the betrayal of its allies it found itself left to its own devices, and met alone with extreme dangers and yet defeated the conquerors and erected the trophies of victory. It saved those who were not yet enslaved from the threat of slavery; but all the rest, no matter how many of us lived on this side of the Pillars of Hercules, it generously made free. But later, when the time came for unprecedented earthquakes and floods, in one terrible day all your military strength was swallowed up by the opening of the earth; likewise, Atlantis disappeared, plunging into the abyss. After this, the sea in those places became, to this day, unnavigable and inaccessible due to shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind.” (Plato, Timaeus).

Description of the island

The location of Atlantis can be further clarified from the description of the island itself.

“Poseidon, having received the island of Atlantis as his inheritance..., approximately in this place: from the sea to the middle of the island a plain stretched, according to legend, more beautiful than all other plains and very fertile.” (Plato, Timaeus).

“This entire region lay very high and fell steeply to the sea, but the entire plain surrounding the city (capital) and itself surrounded by mountains that stretched all the way to the sea, was a smooth surface, three thousand stadia in length (580 km), and in the direction from the sea to the middle - two thousand (390 km.). This entire part of the island was facing the south wind, and was closed from the north by mountains. These mountains are praised by legend because they were superior in number, size and beauty to all those present today. The plain... was an oblong quadrangle, mostly rectilinear.” (Plato, Critias).

So, following the description, a rectangular plain measuring 580 by 390 kilometers stretched approximately to the middle of the island of Atlantis, open to the south and closed to the north by large and high mountains. Fitting these dimensions into a geographical map north of the mouth of the Nile, we find that the southern part of Atlantis could very well be adjacent to Africa (near the Libyan cities of Tobruk, Derna and Egyptian cities on the coast west of Alexandria), and its northern mountainous part could be (but not a fact) - the island of Crete (in the west), and Cyprus (in the east).

The story about the fauna of the island speaks in favor of the fact that Atlantis was connected to Africa in earlier times (than its mention in the ancient Egyptian papyri), namely tens of thousands of years ago.

“There were even a great many elephants on the island, for there was enough food not only for all other living creatures inhabiting swamps, lakes and rivers, mountains or plains, but also for this beast, the largest and most voracious of all animals.” (Plato, Critias).

It should also be taken into account that with the end of the Ice Age and the beginning of the melting of the northern glaciers, the level of the world's oceans rose by 100-150 meters and probably the part of the land that once connected Atlantis and the mainland was gradually flooded. Elephants and the inhabitants of the island of Atlanteans (named after their king Atlas), who came here earlier from the depths of Africa, remained on a large island surrounded by the sea.

The Atlanteans were ordinary modern people, and not four-meter giants, otherwise the Hellenes from Athens would not have been able to defeat them. The island, isolated position of the inhabitants prompted civilization to develop separately and actively, ahead of the external warring barbarians (fortunately, everything necessary was on the island).

On Atlantis (in its capital, which looked like a hill of an extinct volcano), hot springs of mineral water flowed from underground. This indicates high seismic activity in the territory located on the “thin” mantle of the earth’s crust... “a spring of cold and a spring of hot water, which provided water in abundance, and, moreover, amazing both in taste and in healing power.” (Plato, Critias).

Diving underwater

I will not speculate now what caused the internal “hiccups” of the Earth, as a result of which Atlantis sank into the basin of the Mediterranean Sea within a day, and then even deeper. But we must pay attention that exactly in that place along the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea there is a fault boundary between the African and European continental tectonic plates.

The depth of the sea there is very large - about 3000-4000 meters. It is possible that a powerful impact of a giant meteorite in North America in Mexico, which, according to the US National Academy of Sciences, occurred 13 thousand years ago (around the same time) and caused an inertial wave and plate movement in the Mediterranean.

Just as continental plates, creeping over each other, breaking the edges, rear up mountains - the same process, but in the opposite direction, when diverging, forms subsidence and deep depressions. The African plate moved slightly away from the European plate, and this was quite enough to lower Atlantis into the abyss of the sea.

The fact that Africa has previously moved away from Europe and Asia in the history of the Earth is clearly evidenced by the huge intercontinental rift running through the Mediterranean Sea. The fault is clearly visible on a geographical map along the lines (seas) of cleavage in the earth's crust, which go in the directions of the Dead Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Aden, Persian and Oman Gulfs.

See the picture below of how the continent of Africa moves away from Asia, forming the above-mentioned seas and bays at the break points.

Crete - Atlantis

It is possible that the present island of Crete was previously that very northern, high mountainous part of Atlantis, which did not fall into the abyss of the sea, but, having broken away, remained on the “European continental cornice”. On the other hand, if you look at Crete on a geographical map, it does not stand on the very cliff of the mantle of the European continent, but about 100 kilometers from the basin of the Mediterranean (Atlantic) Sea. This means that there was no catastrophic rift of Atlantis along the current coastline of the island of Crete.

But here we must take into account the fact that since those times the sea level has risen by 100-150 meters (or more) due to the melting of glaciers. It is possible that Crete and Cyprus, as independent units, were part of the archipelago of the island Atlantis.

Historians and archaeologists write: “Excavations on Crete show that even four to five millennia after the supposed destruction of Atlantis, the inhabitants of this Mediterranean island sought to settle further from the coast. (Memory of ancestors?). An unknown fear drove them to the mountains. The first centers of agriculture and culture are also located at some distance from the sea."

The former proximity of Atlantis to Africa and the mouth of the Nile is indirectly evidenced by the vast Qattara depression in North Africa in the Libyan desert, 50 km from the Mediterranean coast, west of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Qattara Depression is minus 133 meters deep below sea level.

See the picture above - the huge Qattara Depression near the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

There is also another lowland on the tectonic fault line - this is the Dead Sea (minus 395 meters) in Israel. They testify to a once-common territorial catastrophe associated with the subsidence of large areas of land due to the divergence of the European and African continental plates in different directions.

What does it mean to establish the exact location of Atlantis?

The Mediterranean basin where Atlantis once stood is too deep. At first, the silt that rose and then settled to the bottom and subsequent sedimentary deposits somewhat covered Atlantis. The golden capital with its countless treasures in the temple of Poseidon turned out to be at great depth.

The search for the capital of Atlantis in the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea in the “triangle” between the islands of Crete, Cyprus, and the mouth of the Nile will bring useful results to the “treasury” of the world history of mankind, but this requires research by deep-sea vehicles.

To find the capital, the attentive reader has guidelines... In Russia there are two Mir underwater stations that could survey and study the bottom.

For example, Italian oceanographers in the summer of 2015, on the shelf of the island of Pantelleria, located approximately in the middle between Sicily and Africa, at a depth of 40 meters on the seabed, discovered a giant man-made column 12 meters long, weighing 15 tons, broken in half. The column shows traces of drilling holes. Its age is estimated to be about 10 thousand years (comparable to the Atlantean era). The divers also found the remains of a pier - a ridge of stones half a meter in size, laid out in a straight line, protecting the entrance to the ancient ship harbor.
These finds indicate that the search for the capital of Atlantis is not hopeless.

Another encouraging thing is that the confusion with the “Pillars of Hercules” has been successfully resolved, and the location of Atlantis has finally been established.

Today, for the sake of historical truth, the Mediterranean basin, at the bottom of which lies the legendary island in memory of Atlantis and its inhabitants, can and should return its ancient name - the Atlantic Sea. This will be the first important world event in the search and discovery of Atlantis.

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