The Lost City of Atlantis

Hello! And welcome back to “You’d Have to be Crazy to Believe This!” It is safe to say this week’s conspiracy theory is not too dry. Ha-ha, get it? It is a pun. This Week I am talking about the lost, underwater city of Atlantis! Was it real? Is it just legend? And if it was real, where did it go? Let’s look at the evidence for this mysterious lost city.

Atlantis is a legendary city that supposedly sank in 10,000 BC. This city was allegedly very technologically advanced, maybe even having had some sort of space travel or semblance of technology similar to ours. However, according to Greek legend the city sank in a tsunami, leaving behind almost no trace that it ever existed. Many theorists believe this city is out there somewhere, waiting to be discovered.

The first mentioning of Atlantis is found in the work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Plato says the island was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and was home to millions of citizens. He describes

a massive landmass, estimated to be greater in size than Libya and Asia Minor combined. According to Plato, Poseidon, the god of water, protected the island nation. The island was even named after his son, Atlas, whom Poseidon named the king of Atlantis. As the people of Atlantis grew too powerful for Poseidon’s liking, he sent earthquakes and tsunamis to demolish the city until it sank into the sea.

Many of people who have studied Plato’s work took this story to be more of a lesson than fact. We all must behave and not let power corrupt us or else the gods will kill us, simple enough. However, modern investigators believe they have found evidence for its existence.

                                                                 Oricalcum

In a January 2015 dive, some marine archeologist made an interesting discovery. Several pieces of a mysterious unidentified mental alloy.  Some conspiracy theorists have claimed that this mysterious metal is the illusive “Oricalcum,” The metal mined in Atlantis. Plato proclaims in his work that this metal was the source of much of the wealth of the city, and describes walls adorned with the precious metal. These pieces have still yet to be identified, so could they be the mysterious and precious “oricalcum?”

The Plateau

When speaking about this mythical city one must ask, where was it? Well theorists say it lies on an

incredibly large plateau in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The plateau in question is approximately 300,000 square miles big. The theory for how this plateau would have sunken is that a line of volcanoes running the length of the contentment all erupted at the same time causing massive earth quakes and tsunamis and eventually resulting in the island sinking.

Aside from that, there is really no concrete evidence for the existence of the lost city. No dives or investigations have ever turned up anything that legitimately points to the sunken civilization. But what do you think? Is there at all a chance that the lost city is real? I personally think it would be an amazing discovery but I don’t see it happening any time soon. Well, until next time!