The Mystery of the Lost Continent of Atlantis
Hello my steemian friend will explain a little about the mystery of the lost continent atlantis existence. The existence of the continent told by plato in his book is indeed become one of the greatest mysteries in human history. In his book Tiameus and Critias, Plato tells us that there was a civilization that was lost in 9500 years before the plateau's lifetime which meant 12000 years ago from now. And the continent disappeared by earthquakes and floods in a day.
Until the beginning of the 20th century Atlantis was believed to have existed in this world, but until the emergence of the theory of continental drift that emerged in 1915 by Alfred Wegener.
Alfred Wegener states that the entire continent shifts 5-10cm annually and this theory is supported by seismologists in the 1960s and to this day has become a science believed to be true. In theory it is proved that America and Europe are separated slowly for 100 million years. Also supported by the theory of plate tectonics that successfully mapped all tectonic plates on earth and no hidden mass of the continent between America and Europe. so there is no room for the atlantis continent to be in the Atlantic.
There are no artifacts, historical records, traces of the former land and the exact location of the continent of Atlantis. From thousands of diary sailors, ship notes, sonar imaging results, geological research results, biology, oceanography, linguistics, archeology, deep sea diving, unmanned submarines and even satellite imagery no evidence of the existence of Atlantis believed to be a lost continent.
A new point of view and careful research have at least given new clues to the atlantis existence of the plato of the Solonian record. The area of Atlantis is said by the plato, which lies in one direction three thousand stadia (length = 600km), but in the middle of about two thousand stadia (width = 400km), it is clear from this size that Atlantis is an island, not a continent. The area of atlantis is only 1/32 of the continent of australia, the smallest continent in the world. And this does not explain the words of the plato that reveals that the area of atlantis is as large as the combined libya and small asia. The likelihood of truth is that Atlantis is between the libya and the little asias where in Greek writing these 2 words differ only 1 letter.
And for the explanation that atlantis drowned 9500 years before the plateau was certainly beyond the existing research where several ways of raising and cultivating in a new human civilization were discovered approximately 6000-7000 years ago. So the most plausible is that Atlantis sank 800-900 years before Solon visited Egypt, that is, in 1500 BC.
John V. Luce in his book Lost Atlantis: New light on an old legend argues that the plato story about atlantis is actually a story based on the point of view of the Egyptians. This is based on the fact that the poet athena, Solon in the 6th century BC when visiting Egypt met a priest from Sais who translated the ancient history of athena with the land suspected as atlantis, recorded on the Papiri in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In the text of Egypt explained that keiftu is the isle of the great green or island amid a large green expanse. And great green itself is the name for the Mediterranean sea or the middle sea and the island that ever existed at the middle of it is Crete. Keiftu is a place called a pillar at the end of the world that sustains the sky that is in the minoan crete and plato likens it as atlantis, inspired from Atlas, an ancient god of greek mythology that supports the heavens.
Around the 17th-16th century BC there was an enormous volcanic activity, from the results of the last 14 test carried out showing the age of 1620 BC, this eruption resulted in half of the Thera island sinking into the sea and also causing an earthquake that triggered a powerful tsunami causing the island of Crete was destroyed and drowned in the event. Evidence of archaeological evidence supports this speculation.
hopefully the mystery of the existence of the atlantis continent is quickly revealed.
