Unfounding the Atlantis Myth

A recent find below the sea off the Greek islands have reignited the debate of a lost city off the Greek coast more than 10000 years ago. Atlantis was both a legend as well as a myth, often quoted by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Plato spoke about its untold wealth, technology exceeding the times, the ability to create gold from sand, among others.

A recent find below the sea off the Greek islands have reignited the debate of a lost city off the Greek coast more than 10000 years ago. Atlantis was both a legend as well as a myth, often quoted by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Plato spoke about its untold wealth, technology exceeding the times, the ability to create gold from sand, among others. Later other myths described it as a civization run by alien forms residing on earth in those times. The latter seemed the only plausible explanantion for a civization unprecedented for its advances.

The found city is infact a settlement named Pavlopetri and dates back to about 5,000 years and is similar in size and description to that of Atlantis. The remains of this sunken land was explored by a team of English and Greek scientists. It has already been named the oldest submerged city in the world. It has remains of upto 3200-4800 years old. The sunken city is spread over an area of more than 30,000 square metres or 30 kilometres. It is believed to have sunk in 1000 B.C. The exploration involved moving about a lot of sea sand from the site’s surface. What was revealed below was a structure of buildings, streets, courtyards, rock tombs, religious architecture, and other man made constructions.

It also had many thousands of pieces of ancient pottery strewn across its face. The site is close to the Elafonissos island in southern Greece. Neapolis is the closest city to the site. The discovery of a Megaron or a large rectangular hall took the archaelogists by surprise. This was due to the fact that such a monumental structure was only used by ancient elite or noblemen in Greece for their discussions and seminars. The reson for the submergence of the site have been suggested as a possible earthquake, a sea level change or a tsunami. As these phenomenons have known to bring down islands in the past to the sea bed.