atoms Wrote:
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Welcome to Ma'at, atoms.

> As Jules Verne's thinly disguised travelogue
> 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea firmly established,
> Atlantis is under the Atlantic Ocean, not Africa.
> Sheesh. Doesn't anyone read books any more?
>
> In 10000 BC sea levels were some 60 meters lower.
> The place to look for seafaring civilizations is
> on the ancient coastline of that period, not on
> land. Having access to free food (fish, clams,
> whales, seaweed) and generally more moderate
> temperatures makes it the most ideal place to
> build and prosper (until the ocean rises that is).
> We're only just beginning to discover what's down
> there.
>
> Unfortunately for Atlantis the ocean was rising
> much faster than it is now. Maybe the concentric
> circle structures were their failed attempt to
> hold it off. If Atlantis is allegory, we have yet
> to learn its lessons.

From Wiki [en.wikipedia.org] :

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[Atlantis is] ... a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic ...

> Of interest might be The Archaeology of Europe's
> Drowned Landscapes (Springer Press, published
> 2020). It is free on Amazon, Apple Books, Google
> Books and about 1000 pages long. I'm just diving
> in to it.

Thanks for this: [www.amazon.co.uk] . I'd not come across it before.

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