Why aren't your suspected sites under water? Why is Morocco above water?

What do you think is the reason behind the Spanish and French Archaeologists not having found evidence of Atlantis in Morocco? they had free reign from 1921 to 1956.

"nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on the one side, the city of Athens was reported to have been the leader and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean"

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