Resumo de Atlantis: The Lost Continent

The lost continent of Atlantis has been fervently supported and equally fervently attacked over the centuries. The arguments and depth of conviction over the possible existence of the mysterious submerged continent have led to the historical story.
Atlantis were made much earlier than the time of the two Greek philosophers. It seems the Ancient Egyptians knew of the existence of a splendid civilisation, inhabiting a continent in the middle of the ocean. Once there, Egyptian priests seemed to prove that, showing Crantor ancient inscriptions describing the history of the people of Atlantis.
Travellers could go from the (central) island to the other islands, and from them they could "cross to that continent which stood on the other side of the sea". The priest added that in just one day and night, the island of Atlantis was destroyed, covered by sea and disappeared. "This is why, even today, that ocean is difficult to sail and remains unexplored; the submerged island is a danger to seamen."
If future archaeologist are at all like current ones they might well decide it was a temple complex or a cult center established for the worship of a mouse-god and subordinate animal deities.
Funny but scary. Did Atlantis really exist?
Its not an argument whether Atlantis existed or not. Previous civilization existed, possibly Atlantis. Even if one day we discover that Atlantis did not exist, there still is evidence that clearly shows that 1 or more civilizations existed in our past. Some of these civilizations coincidentally fall within the date of Plato's Atlantis as described in his Timaeus and Critias.
During World War Two, scores of American pilots on submarine duty in the Caribbean reported sightings of artificial underwater structures. It is entirely possible that the shipping lanes had a regular port of call on their journeys: the mid-Atlantic continent of Atlantis.
When describing the dimensions and measurements of the island and its architecture, Plato often refers to the stade- which is an archaic measurement of length, equivalent to 606 feet.
Atlantis was located Beyond the Pillars of Hercules, which means beyond the Straits of Gibraltar (on either side of which the Herculean pillars once stood) and out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Many think that Atlantis was merely a figment of Plato's imagination; a pure myth that the Greek philosopher used as a vehicle for his theories of a utopia. Aristotle flatly rejected Plato's tale, and right up to the Middle Ages, a majority of the academics agreed with him, although Aristotelian reasoning on many things, such as metaphysics and astronomy, was faulty, and held up the advancement of empirical science for centuries.
The people of Atlantis also had a money-less economy and all land was held in common. Virgil's Georgics and Tibullus's Elegies state that land in ancient times was shared by large communistic-like societies where no one had the right to own a single acre.
They waged a war against the neighboring areas of Europe and Asia. Not long afterwards, Atlantis disappeared beneath the ocean after being devastated by either a catastrophic earthquake or a meteor. Some skeptical historians believe the dramatic end of Atlantis is a very convenient epilogue that gets around the problem of obtaining proof of the continent's existence. However, throughout history, there have been many instances of land masses sinking and emerging from the seas of the world. In 1780, Falcon Island in the Pacific was discovered by the Spanish. In 1892 the government of Tonga planted 2,000 coconut palms on the island. Two years afterwards, the island dramatically sank beneath the ocean waves. In November 1963, the volcanic island of Surtsey emerged from the coastal waters of Iceland and grew rapidly. After three weeks, the island - which was half a mile across - had risen to 390 feet above sea level. Its lava rapidly solidified and the island now has vegetation. In 1819, the delta of the Indus was shaa mighty earthquake which caused most of the local territory to sink. One of the worst cases of a drowned city occurred on 1 November 1755, when a tremendous earthquake struck Lisbon.
Three miles south of the Bimini Road, underwater explorers have found fluted marble columns, which is hard to explain, as marble is not native to the Bahamas. Beneath the waters of the Great Bahama Banks, a large pyramidal building measuring 180 by 140 feet has been located. In the same area, a pilot spotted a wall under 12 fathoms of unusually clear water. Curiously, the wall had an archway going through the middle of it. There was also a recent report of another architectural anomaly a few miles from this wall: a large marble citadel covering five undersea acres with roads leading from it. Unfortunately, diving on the citadel is too hazardous, as Cuban patrol boats regularly visit the waters around it.
Aristotle, as noted, thought little of Plato's ideas on Atlantis. He believed them to be little more than purely poetic imaginings, although, on close inspection, there are sorne contradictions even in Aristotle's comments on the lost continent. In a passage in the Constitution of the Tegaeians, he wrote that the natives of Arcadia had based an ancient claim to their land on the belief that they came from Atíantis and had inhabited their country "even before there had been a Moon in the heavens".

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