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This gained popularity a year or two ago when a few youtubers took it upon themselves to determine that if Atlantis were real, what geological features might be
by dleslie 4y ago
This gained popularity a year or two ago when a few youtubers took it upon themselves to determine that if Atlantis were real, what geological features might be the most likely candidates? Ancient Architects and Bright Insight both come to mind, here, with the latter choosing the Richat Structure as their target of interest and Ancient Architects chosing Rockall.
However it may be appealing to suggest that it fits Plato's description, the Richat structure is almost certainly just the remains of a fantastically enormous geologic dome that grew and shrank repeatedly over eons; causing the ring structures to form from the expected natural sedimentation and similar.
Still absolutely wild to consider, given its size.
- whoisthis4chan 4y agodo you think it could be the roof of some ancient temple?
- ssalka 4y agoThis is just as much speculation as it is to claim that it's truly the site of Atlantis. I'm siding with the YouTubers ;) In any case, would love to see an unbiased archeological dig there. From what I recall watching videos about this place, there are some political/legal challenges to gaining access there besides for individual travel.
- Avshalom 4y agothe wikipedia article says there have been archeological digs there.
- TrainedMonkey 4y agoMy pet theory is that Atlantis was a composite story from a large number of coastal civilizations being wiped out by Early Holocene sea level rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise Flood stories, including biblical flood, are potentially coming from the same source.
- citizenpaul 4y agoCool theory never heard of it before. Though the only description we have say Atlantis sank in single day and night of misfortune. Doesn't really fit sea level rise. Though that could just be poetic.
- dejj 4y agoProminently, Doggerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
- dleslie 4y agoThat's actually not out of line with what Ancient Architects proposed; the operator of that channel tries to shy away from pure speculation, and proposed sea level rise as a cause for Atlantis sinking; and from there, they narrowed in on Rockall, which has interesting now-sunk but previously above-water features.