Friday, November 4, 2011

Do you believe in The Lost civilization: Atlantis

Nothing left to do, I searched the Unexplainable mystery of Atlantis which is said to be a legendary island. The story of Atlantis begins quite literally with two of Plato's dialogues "Timaeus and Critias", written about 360 BC. According to Plato, Atlantis was described as a large landmass somewhere west of the “Pillars of Hercules” (the points of land that nearly meet where the Mediterranean Sea separates the Spanish and North African peninsulas). Located somewhere in the Atlantic, the Atlantean civilization was believed to have been extremely prosperous, with a “confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power” (Plato, Timaeus) who maintained a powerful naval force in the region. The near-utopian society suffered a tragic fate, however, when a cataclysmic natural disaster led to the entire city being swallowed up by the ocean in a single day, leaving behind no trace of its existence.
One grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the Island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down.”
-Plato, Timaeus
 For unknown reasons, Plato never completed Critias. Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus.

The search for Atlantis is still on and one of the primary things to worry about is, where to start the search because the Plato's dialogues hasn't mentioned any location of Atlantis. Some scientists think that the word Atlantis has close resemblance with Atlantic Ocean which suggests that Atlantis may be some where in the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore it is the first place to search for Atlantis still many other argue about this hypothesis and have their own proposed sites in the vast oceans of this world.

So far, there hasn't been any scientific evidences related to the existence of Atlantis. There are some researches, however until now it is still not clear whether any such thing as Atlantis ever existed or was is just an imaginary society of Plato.

Sources:
http://hassam.hubpages.com/hub/The-Lost-Atlantis
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/08/30/man-knowledge-lost-cities-every-man-should-know/

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