There is a theory that greek island Santorini was part of Atlantis. You might be thinking, how can an island in the Mediterranean have anything to do with a continent in the Atlantic Ocean? According to legend East Coast Atlantis reached the shores of Spain and Africa, and West Coast extended to Caribbean Islands and the Yucatan Peninsula. The Bermuda Triangle and the Sargasso Sea were also parts of Atlantis. Several islands were adjacent to the continent, one of which was Santorini, in much the same way as Catalina is adjacent to the coast of California (only Santorini was further from Atlantis than Catalina from the coast of California).

Plato's two dialogues Timaeus and Critias are the only written sources of the time that speak of Atlantis . This dialogue is written in the form of a conversation between Socrates, Hermocrates, Timaeus and Critias, in which Timaeus and Critias tell Socrates about the social structures known to them. This conversation may confirm that the Greek island of Santorini was part of Atlantis.

The dialogue tells the story of the conflict between the Atlanteans and the Athenians, which occurred some 9,000 years before Plato's times. It is clear that from those days there are no records left, especially about Atlantis. Some fragments of Aristotle's works have been preserved, but the full text of the works of this great master has not survived to this day.

Many of the works of the time were destroyed in the fire at the Library of Alexandria, but even they provided limited information because much of the information was transmitted through oral tradition. (It is refreshing that we have full confidence in the Bible insofar as it relies on oral preliterate tradition, but when it comes to

Atlantis or Lemuria, skeptic scientists immediately appear...)

The continent of Atlantis appeared about 500,000 years ago, its civilization reached its peak about 15-12 thousand years ago. Unlike Lemuria, whose culture contributed to the development of spirituality, Atlantis was a continent of sciences, arts and technology. And if Lemuria was destroyed as a result of the natural processes of Mother Nature, the intelligent Atlanteans themselves destroyed their home as a result of experiments in the field of atomic energy and nuclear physics.

As a result of such experiments with electromagnetic energy, the continent disappeared under water, and most of the citizens of Atlantis died - only a few managed to escape, landing in Spain, Egypt and Yucatan. The Atlanteans seemed to lack the awareness that they were polluting the atmosphere through their industry; If we, modern people, treat the globe in the same way, we may fall into the same trap. Absolute power truly corrupts absolutely.

Atlantis: facts and evidence

Pyramid explored by Dr. Ray Brown on the seabed near Bahamas in 1970. Brown was accompanied by four divers who also discovered houses, domes, rectangular structures, metal tools of unknown purpose, and a statue holding a crystal with a miniature copy of the pyramid. Metal tools and crystals were brought to the surface and taken to Florida for further analysis. The crystal was found to increase the energy flowing through it.
The remains of roads and buildings on Binini Island were discovered and photographed in the 60s by the expedition of Dr. Manson Valentine. Similar underwater ruins were photographed in a coral reef area in the Bahamas. Similar remains of structures were discovered and photographed in Morocco at a depth of 15-18 meters under water.
A huge pyramid with 11 chambers and a large crystal at the top was, according to Tony Bank, discovered at a depth of 3000 meters underwater in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1977, Ari Marshall's expedition reported that a huge pyramid was found and photographed near Say Reef in the Bahamas at a depth of about 45 meters. This pyramid is approximately 195 meters high. Life-giving, but around the pyramid the water was bright white, it flowed out of a hole in the pyramid, then the water was green, unlike the usual dark water at depth.
The flooded city, about 640 kilometers off the coast of Portugal, was found by a Soviet expedition led by Boris Asturois, its buildings were made of solid concrete and plastic. He said: "The remains of the streets suggest that monorail trains were used for transportation." A statue was raised from the bottom of the sea.
Heinrich Schliemann, the man who discovered and excavated the ruins of the famous Troy (historians considered it a legend), according to his contemporaries, handed over to scientists a vase made of an unknown metal recovered during the excavation of Priam's treasures. A seal in the Phoenician language was found in it, according to which this vase was a gift from the king of Atlantis, Kronos. A similar vase was found in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.

There are supposed to be more facts, but you already get the idea. Obviously, numerous studies indicate the presence of ancient civilizations about which we know nothing.

The Atlanteans experienced three cataclysms throughout their history: the first about 50,000 years ago, the second about 25,000 years ago, and the third, which destroyed their civilization, about 12,000 years ago. Some Atlanteans considered these misfortunes to be warnings that continuing such a lifestyle would mean destroying their civilization. Unfortunately, these “doomsday heralds” were in the minority, and therefore no one heard them.

“The story of how the various continents were inhabited by this highly developed civilization is amazing, but after many years of its development, it ended its existence approximately 11,500 years ago as a result of a terrible planetary catastrophe that changed the face of the Earth and hid most of the land under water. The key to the history of the world before the rise of our civilization is to be found in the Sumerian texts."

Many believe that what happened to the Atlanteans is much like what I once said on television: a change in the tilt of the axis affected some of the Earth's masses, and this led to the splitting of the continents. Atlantis and Lemuria sank lower, and as a result, a significant part of the land was under water.

The Atlanteans experimented with electromagnetic energy and gravity, which was the main cause of destruction. Usually a change in the poles is accompanied by small earthquakes, volcanic explosions and movements of the earth's masses, but this time it was the largest in the entire history of the Earth (which explains the story of Noah and the Flood). Much of this story of “flooding the whole earth with water” can also be found in Sumerian texts.

Secrets of antiquity. Atlantis: the lost civilization.

Lost continent Atlantis has been exciting the minds of millions of people for almost 2500 years. A mystery shrouded in the fog of thousands of years, hundreds of theories and hypotheses. Even despite modern technical means and scientific progress, it has still not been possible to find not only the location of Atlantis, but also to prove its existence. It is worth noting that on the way to the secrets of the Atlantean civilization, scientists and researchers made many other discoveries. Which sometimes don’t fit into your head due to their fantastic nature. Many have heard of Atlantis, but not many have thought about the culture that supposedly characterized this great civilization.

The first mention of the disappeared continent

The very first mentions of Atlantis are considered to be the “Dialogues” of the ancient Greek philosopher and historian Plato. In them, he casually mentioned the location of the mainland in the Strait of Gibraltar area. But mostly he focused on describing the life and culture of the Atlanteans. The accuracy with which Plato describes Atlantis is surprising. Its rich cities and civilization, which has risen to the highest level of development. According to him, the Atlanteans are the descendants of Poseidon. Who, in turn, was their supreme deity.

The wealth and grandeur of the disappeared continent is amazing. But one can only judge him from the words of Plato. In addition, other information is more interesting. It has been proven that Plato himself borrowed stories about the mainland from his uncle Solon. He heard them while in Egypt. The story of Atlantis was told by one of the priests of the goddess of the sky and mother of the Sun - Neith. At the same time, he showed inscriptions in temples, testifying to the reality of the existence of the lost continent. It turns out that the Atlanteans knew in advance about the imminent death of their homeland. And they did everything possible to preserve the great secrets and gene pool of humanity.

Atlantean Legacy

Before talking about the possible location of the sunken continent, it is worth focusing on the achievements of the Atlanteans. The information is extremely interesting, although somewhat worn out by the eternal search for the continent itself. The researchers were so carried away by the search that they completely forgot about why they started all this. Ancient sources provide evidence that the Atlanteans preserved their knowledge for posterity. Moreover, they saved not only the information, but also themselves. Shortly before terrible disaster, which plunged the country into the ocean, representatives of the great race went to Egypt, Greece and even Tibet.

The information from the famous British esotericist Labsang Rampa is interesting. He claims that there are secret caves under the Potala Temple in Tibet. In them, Tibetan monks protect the three Atlanteans, who are in a state of “samadhi”. The condition itself is mentioned in all Eastern religions, so its reality can be taken on faith. Another thing is interesting. Labsang claims that the inhabitants of Atlantis had unique abilities. With the help of the “third eye” they could move heavy objects and had developed science and technology.

His statements coincide with the words of the famous Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky. In her writings, she wrote that the Atlanteans took part, moving huge blocks of stone with the help of magic. In addition, Blavatsky said that Great Pyramid Cheops is the repository of Atlantean knowledge. Her words are partially confirmed by modern research. Scientists have discovered hidden rooms under the base of the pyramid. Their age can be safely attributed to the tenth, and possibly the twelfth millennium BC.

Where did Atlantis go?

If you ignore the esotericism for a while and focus on more material things, then it will be interesting to find the place where Atlantis is located today. As for this aspect of research, there are many theories and it makes sense to focus on the more realistic ones. In the process of searching for the flooded continent, scientists explored the entire globe and obtained information that forces us to take a fresh look at the history of mankind. For the sake of fairness, it is worth noting that these finds were not always in any way connected with Atlantis. Although they were no less important for science.

Atlantean civilization in the Aegean Sea?

The most realistic among modern versions is the location of the disappeared continent in the Aegean Sea. Researchers claim that Atlantis was associated with the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and existed until the 16th century BC. Around this time, a volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Santorini, and the legendary Atlanteans disappeared into oblivion. Geological research confirms the theory. Scientists have discovered underwater sediments in the area volcanic ash several tens of meters thick. But whether the remains of the great race were preserved under the ashes, science is not able to answer. One can only hope that “yet” they are not able to.

Atlantis in Antarctica?

Another interesting theory is that the missing continent is located under a two-kilometer layer of ice in Antarctica. Upon closer examination, the theory no longer seems fantastic. To begin with, you should pay attention to the ancient maps of our planet. In 1665, the work of the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher saw the light of day. Among other things, it featured a reproduction of an Egyptian map. The map showed Antarctica without ice in detail. This is what the Egyptians believed it was like 12,000 years ago. Surprisingly, the configuration of the island on the map is strikingly similar to the outlines of Antarctica obtained using modern equipment.

Additionally, ice-free Antarctica appears on many later maps. The fact remains a fact. Antarctica without ice was present in the memory of our ancestors. She will never be seen like this again. It is worth noting that many of the ancient maps depicting Atlantis are incredibly detailed and accurate to the minute. How such reliability was achieved also remains a mystery.

How did Atlantis disappear?

Any variations on the theme: “Where to look for Atlantis?” must prove how this continent could disappear in an incredibly short time. According to Plato, Atlantis sank within 24 hours. It is obvious that no cataclysm can produce such a destructive effect. One out of two:

Either Atlantis went into the depths of the sea longer than the stated time;
or the death of the Atlanteans came from outside.

This hypothesis fits very smoothly with the statement of the same Lama Labsang Rampa. In his writings, he stated that the disaster occurred due to a planetoid that collided with the Earth. Thus, displacing it from orbit and forcing it to rotate in the other direction. Let scientists judge the possibility of such an event, but this really explains both the continental shift and the disappearance of the first civilization.

The Atlantean Empire is fraught with many secrets, the answers to which are so desirable for enthusiasts. And it’s safe to say that research will not subside until Atlantis is found. There is no smoke without fire. This means that there is hope that the disappeared continent will come out to meet its descendants.

Film about Atlantis

If interested, watch the online video film " lost World- Atlantis. The Mystery of the Lost Civilization."

History of Atlantis is a mystery that researchers have been trying to penetrate for thousands of years. It is rooted in ancient times, inaccessible to direct research, but interest in this problem has only become stronger over the years. Perhaps this is due to the fact that something very important for all humanity is connected with the history of Atlantis.

Lemuria and Atlantis

In ancient times, the appearance of the Earth was different from what it is now; at that time there were continents and islands that have long since disappeared. The Great Flood and other cataclysms forever changed the face of the planet. And of course, it is very difficult today to judge the ancient states that existed at that time. However, fragmentary information about them has reached us in the form of legends and traditions.

Perhaps the greatest interest among scientists is Lemuria and Atlantis, as they were once the most highly developed civilizations. Reminds me of Lemuria Mysterious Island Easter, which is believed to have been part of a large continent. As for Atlantis, no one can definitely say about its location yet. There is no such piece of land that could be tied to Atlantis. A fairly specific indication is the prediction of the clairvoyant Edward Cayce, who claimed that Atlantis was in the area Bermuda Triangle. This prediction later found a number of confirmations - at the bottom of the ocean in this area, as Cayce predicted, large, well-preserved pyramids were discovered that contained crystals on their tops. However, there are interesting finds in other places on the planet. Therefore, it is not yet possible to definitively answer which version of the location of Atlantis is more correct, and therefore they are looking for the mysterious country all over the face of the Earth.

The legend of Atlantis became known to modern mankind through the works of the ancient Greek thinker Plato. In his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, he describes the history of Atlantis. In the first dialogue, Plato speaks only briefly about Atlantis. As for the dialogue “Critius”, it is entirely devoted to the description of Atlantis.

Dialogue Timaeus

Dialogue Timaeus It begins with Socrates and the Pythagorean Timaeus having a conversation about the ideal state. However, after describing his ideas about the ideal state, Socrates began to complain that the picture turned out to be abstract. He wanted to see how such a state would behave in a real life situation, how it would build relations with other states, whether it would be able to go to war, and whether citizens in this case would perform feats “in accordance with their training and upbringing.”

Another participant in the conversation, the Athenian politician Critias, unexpectedly responded to Socrates’ question. He talked about ancient war, which occurred approximately 9,500 years ago (11,500 years for us) between Athens and mysterious Atlantis. Critias himself learned about this story from his grandfather, and he learned about this war from Solon, and Solon was told about Atlantis by the Egyptian priests.

Both Athens and Atlantis were very powerful powers, while Atlantis had a very large territory under its control, conquering more and more new peoples. Atlantis's policy of conquest ultimately led to war with Athens. The entire Athenian people, realizing the danger that loomed over them, rose to defend their Fatherland. Abandoned by their allies, the Athenian warriors, showing courage and valor, managed to defeat the conquerors. This victory also restored freedom to the peoples who had been enslaved by the Atlanteans. But suddenly a terrible catastrophe broke out, ending the history of Atlantis. In one day and night, the country of the powerful Atlanteans went under water. Alas, the Athenian army also perished along with Atlantis.

Dialogue Critias

Dialogue Critias- this is a direct continuation of the dialogue Timaeus. Through the lips of Critias, Plato speaks here in detail and reliably about Atlantis.

The story of Atlantis began with the relationship between Poseidon and the mortal girl Cleito, whom the ruler of the seas fell in love with. From their union came 10 sons, the eldest of whom was named Atlas. Poseidon divided the island between his sons, which later received the name Atlantis. The children of Poseidon and Cleito were considered demigods and laid the foundation for the 10 royal families of Atlantis.

Plato accurately described legendary land and gave specific figures. The central plain of Atlantis reached 3000 stadia (which is 540 km) by 2000 stadia (360 km). In the center of the island there was a hill, which the father of the rulers of Atlantis surrounded with three water channels separated by earthen ramparts. In the center of the fortification, a city or central island was created, which had a diameter of 5 stages (slightly less than a kilometer). Here, in the heart of Atlantis, magnificent temples and a magnificent royal palace were built. The inhabitants of Atlantis built deep channels through the protective rings so that ships could sail directly to the capital.

This is what Plato says about Atlantis. The island on which the palace is located had a diameter of five stages. The rulers surrounded the island, the earthen rings, as well as the pletra-wide bridge with circular walls made of stone, and on the bridges at the exits to the sea they installed towers and gates everywhere. In the depths of the middle island, as well as the outer and inner earthen rings, the Atlanteans mined white, black and red stone. They organized anchorages for their ships in quarries. Some of their buildings were made simply, while others were skillfully decorated with stones of different colors, which gave them a natural beauty. The walls around the outer earthen ring along the entire circumference of Atlas were covered with copper by applying the metal in molten form. The inner shaft was covered with tin also by casting. The wall of the acropolis itself was decorated with orichalcum, which emitted a fiery shine.

The place where the rulers of Atlantis lived inside the acropolis was arranged like this. In the very center was the inaccessible holy temple of Cleito and Poseidon. It was surrounded by a golden wall - this was the place where the generation of ten princes came from. In honor of this event, every year they brought sacrificial firstfruits from all ten portions of Atlantis to each of them. Nearby was the temple of Poseidon, which was 1 stage in length, three plethra in width, and also a height corresponding to this size. The outer surface of the temple, except for the acroteria, was lined with silver, while the acroteria were trimmed with gold. The ceiling of the temple was made of ivory and decorated with gold, silver and orichalcum. The walls, pillars and floors were completely covered with orichalcum. There were golden statues in the temple, one of which reached to the ceiling. It depicted a god on a chariot, who rode six winged horses, around whom were one hundred Nereids on dolphins. Many of the statues in the temple were donated by private individuals. The outside of the temple was surrounded by images made of gold of wives and those who descended from the ten kings. The altar was quite consistent in size and decoration with this wealth. Royal Palace in its splendor it also corresponded to both the temples and the greatness of the state.

In addition to all this, Plato described many different details from the way of life of the Atlanteans, including data on the size of the army of Atlantis.

The laws by which Atlantis lived were established by Poseidon and inscribed on the orichalcum pillar. Despite the incredible wealth of the island, the inhabitants of Atlantis, being direct descendants of the gods, did not know greed. However, marriages with mere mortals gradually led to the degeneration of the divine nature of the Atlanteans; human vices prevailed in the hearts of the Atlanteans with great force. They were filled with greed, pride and the desire for conquest. Then Zeus decided to punish the inhabitants of Atlantis so that they would “learn to be decent.” The Thunderer gathered all the gods and addressed those gathered with a speech... Plato never said what Zeus said - dialogue Critias This is where it mysteriously ends. For what reason Plato did not finish his work on Atlantis is not known.

This is the story of Atlantis from Plato's story. Many secrets would be revealed if this mysterious country could be discovered. However, the time has not yet come and the ocean reliably stores the ancient mysteries of Atlantis.

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Just a few years ago, it probably would never have occurred to me to connect the Theta Disc with the myth that Atlantis seemed to be at that time. However, everything has changed: she is no longer a myth! The myth has become a hypothesis, in support of which dozens of researchers have joined forces, finding more and more indisputable data. Today there are already so many of them that without Plato’s testimony we ourselves would now recreate the picture of the Ancient Atlantic with an archipelago of islands connecting its shores and starting at the Pillars of Hercules.

I think it’s worth familiarizing yourself with these data to make sure how real the former existence of this country is and whether it is directly related to our hypothesis. And I’ll start with a general statement: as science has shown, there is nothing immutable in our knowledge about the world. The progress of science is in the constant rejection of previous knowledge. There are no longer any immutable truths and no indisputable facts. The view on problems and objects of study sometimes undergoes a radical change. Actually, the only principle worthy of a man of science is now the readiness to accept the most unexpected explanations of phenomena that once seemed to be completely explained.

As an example, let us turn to the past of man to tell ourselves directly, without beating around the bush: the entire genealogy of the human race, which was so diligently drummed into us by self-confident or unscrupulous scientists, turned out to be just a speculative construction on paper! Textbooks also say that a million years ago we supposedly descended from the trees. Meanwhile, recent discoveries in Africa have shown the existence of meaningfully made flint tools already 3.5 million years before us.

All the imaginary “intermediate links” between the monkey and Homo sapiens, so adored by paleontologists, often, alas, to their greater glory, return to their places in the animal world. And this began after more ancient or equal in age human remains and impressions of feet, no different from ours, were discovered in Tanzania. And then several real scientists dared to publicly express their conviction that the “bone material of evidence” collected over decades was far from complete, poorly dated, insufficient, doubtful, and even falsified. And finally, this “something” presented as a human ancestor may well simply be a parallel branch. In short, science in its present state has little to say about man's past. Thus, the ancient cultures “received” over thousands of millions more years for their historical development. If our immediate ancestor managed to move from a stone pestle to an electron microscope in 10 thousand years, then the question arises: what, his African predecessor, with equally dexterous hands and the same brain volume, should have spent 3.5 million years, so nothing and not achieving?..
And in our past, an incredibly long, boundless period opened up, during which cultures that we had never even dreamed of could successfully flourish and perish! Most likely, they were exactly like that, since they did not leave us rusting landfills and plastic dumps.

In this incomprehensible past there is ample room for Atlantis.
As Plato says, along the islands of Atlantis “it was easy to move to other islands, and from the islands to the entire opposite continent, which covered the sea that truly deserves such a name (after all, the sea on this side of the mentioned strait is just a bay with some narrow passage into it, while the sea on the other side of the strait is a sea in the proper sense of the word, just as the land surrounding it can truly and quite rightly be called a continent).

This early reference to America is striking; and does not at all resemble literary fiction. But no less remarkable is the mention of the island chain. Plato at one time could not have known about the Atlantic what we know today: during the last glaciation, the water level was 120–200 meters lower, and this alone meant that the surface of the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands, Bermuda and the Bahamas - many times higher than the current one. These were large islands, and their shallow continental shelf, which greatly facilitated navigation, occupied vast spaces.

The testimony of Heinrich Schliemann, the famous discoverer of Troy (by the way, it was already discovered a second time, in another place), is little known. He claims that during his stay in St. Petersburg he found and read an Egyptian papyrus kept in the Hermitage, which says the following:
“The pharaoh sent an expedition to the west to search for traces of the continent of Atlantis, from which the ancestors of the Egyptians arrived 3,350 years ago, bringing with them all the knowledge of their native country.”

Interestingly, Aristotle, who rejected Plato's message, argued that the Phoenicians and Carthaginians knew about big island in the western Atlantic, which they called Antilla.

This name is very close to the Greco-Roman “Atlantis” (the so-called lost island or continent).

So if we prove the existence of this “chain of islands”, then not only Atlantis will become reliable, but also the ambiguities in the problem of settling America will disappear. The “Siberian route” through the Bering Isthmus does not explain everything completely, either in terms of time or in the ethnic composition of the South American peoples. Some of them, for example, the Mexican Olmecs with Negroid features, the creators of the oldest culture in this country, arrived (according to Professor Andrzej Wierczyński) from the Ibero-African region. Such a relocation would be highly questionable if the transatlantic island chain did not exist. The cradle of a number of other American tribes with clearly Indo-European ethnic features could, not without reason, be seen precisely on Atlantis.

Ancient sources are replete with numerous references to the invasion of Europe and Africa by “sea peoples” from the west. The inhabitants of this region have preserved legends, records and even some ruins - traces of these invasions from the sea. Egyptian chronicles mention mysterious attacks by the “people of the sea.” Irish legends tell of froborgs who arrived from the Atlantic. The ruins of ancient stone fortresses testify to the attacks committed thousands of years ago. And what’s interesting: these stones bear traces of exposure to high temperatures. The Atlantic coast of Spain and France is also full of ancient ruins, covered with legends of attacks from the west in ancient times.

The ancient Gauls, Irish, Welsh and other Celtic tribes were convinced that their ancestors came from a continent that sank in the "Western Sea". The Welsh called it Avalon.

The Basques, which are a completely mysterious racial and linguistic “island” in Southwestern France and Northern Spain, and to this day they believe that they are the descendants of Atlantis, which is called Atlantica. In Portugal there is also a widespread belief that Atlantis was near this country, and the Azores are its remnants.

Indigenous inhabitants Canary Islands they are still called by their old name - Atalaya, and were presented to the first newcomers from the continent as distant descendants of the few ancestors who survived the great catastrophe.
The Vikings claimed that Atli was a wonderful land in the west. For the ancient Arabs, the first civilization existed on the “continent of Hell in the Western Ocean.” Why, even the ancient Indian texts “Purana” and “Mahabharata” mention “Atallu, the White Island in the Western Ocean”, “half a world away” from India.

And so on and so forth. There are many such traces of the past in America. For example, in Venezuela, the conquistadors came across a village of “white people” called Atlan. However, other tribes they conquered also talked about their coming from across the sea, from places whose names repeated the sound combination atl.
The cultural similarities between the two continents are significant. Already the first Spaniards heard about things that were well known to them from the traditions of the Middle East, from the Bible and other texts: about the great flood that a select few and their animals survived on boats; about construction" high tower in order to avoid another flood; about repentance and deliverance from sins; about communion in the form of bread, perceived as the body of God, and also about the cross, which turned out to be the oldest image of the Tree of Life.

The Indians, in turn, had long awaited the arrival of the Spaniards and, up to a year, foresaw the return of the “white gods” who, many centuries ago, brought them civilization and then sailed to the east.

What also amazed the Spaniards and still amazes us is the Indians’ use of words from the ancient languages of the Old World. So, for example, in the Aztec Nahuatl language there is the word teoacilli (TeosaSh), meaning “house of the gods,” and in Greek - theou calia (theou calia) - “god’s house.” Another Nahuatl word, tepee, meaning “elevation,” sounds almost like tehe, “elevation” in Turkic languages. The Indian "Potomac" (a river in the USA) and numerous names of other rivers beginning with "pot" are reminiscent of the distant Greek potomos - "river". There are too many such transatlantic linguistic similarities to be considered accidental. Here are a few more examples among hundreds of others:

The list of such similarities can be continued. It certainly rules out any chance. These words were carried overseas by people. We don't know how long ago or in what way. It is generally believed that this was done by Asian hunter-gatherers who migrated from Siberia, perhaps 50 thousand years ago. The oldest human skeletal remains in the United States date back to the 40th millennium BC. The advance of tribes through the Bering Strait to Alaska, and then through the lands of what is now Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central America to Peru, Chile, Argentina and Tierra del Fuego lasted millennia, and during this time hundreds of generations passed before deserts, mountains, jungles and prairies were overcome. Well, let’s say that the average life expectancy of people of those times was 25 years - this means that in 1 thousand years - 40 generations, and in 40 thousand years - about 1600 generations. This is so much that that ancient living speech has completely changed, forming the current mosaic of almost radically different Indian languages.

It is difficult to agree that some Siberian tribe 40 thousand years ago used the word meo (leo), “holy”, and it was brought to the Aztecs, and then to the Greeks, and at the same time did not change for 1600 generations... But the word bal (bal) “axe”, in Sumer and among the Araucanians three-quarters of the way around the Earth? Oh, and unlikely.

The ethnic composition of the peoples of America suggests another solution. Although in general the inhabitants of the New World undoubtedly have Asian features, there are, however, islands of races with Negroid and Indo-European ethnic properties, and their presence cannot in any way be explained by Siberian migration. They and their languages reached America from the Old World by a different route.

The mysteries don't end there. A prominent Sanskrit scholar, at my request, analyzed some Nahuatl words with which I associate biochemical meanings. And what happened? They have Sanskrit roots and have the same meaning as in Mexico!

For example, the name of the sign ollin ("movement") in its usual, everyday meaning symbolizes a double chromosome. In Vedic Sanskrit, the root “il” (I) actually means “to move”, “to move”, but also “to speak”! Hence, illin is “endowed with movement and speech,” that is, “information”! And those two sticks that are drawn in the sign of a cell actually carry genetic information and “move from cell to cell.”

There is too little space here to consider this problem in more detail, so I will only remind you that the Americas abound in names that undoubtedly come from Vedic Sanskrit - "the speech of the gods." But how is this possible if Sanskrit appeared in records 3.5 thousand years ago, and Asian languages “penetrated” into America 10, 20, 30 centuries earlier? Only one answer suggests itself: someone taught the peoples in America, and in India, and in the Middle East, and in the area of the Pillars of Hercules. And he carried out his mission by the closest route - the Atlantic. This “someone” disappeared from the face of the Earth along with his country.

Now let's move on to direct evidence of the existence of Atlantis. They were deep-sea discoveries made recently thanks to the development of diving technology and underwater research. On the sea shelf of the Azores, Canary Islands, Bahamas and Bermuda, scuba divers have discovered and photographed numerous stone walls, platforms and stairs laid by human hands thousands of years ago.

About 300 miles west of Gibraltar lies an underwater ridge of sunken mountains, rising 5 kilometers above the surrounding depths and not reaching about 200 meters from the surface of the water. Located in a semicircle, they were called “Horseshoe”.

This Horseshoe attracts a lot of attention from numerous sea researchers. Expeditions under different flags took geological samples of the bottom, benthic flora and fauna there, which brought interesting results.

Researchers were amazed to discover specific “wrinkles” in the bottom at a depth of several hundred meters. These are sand banks, the surface of which is covered with small wavy wrinkles, which form exclusively in coastal areas, where sea waves run onto the shore and roll down from it in powerful currents, carrying sand particles. Cliffs were also discovered - coastal cliffs washed away by the surf. Thus, irrefutable evidence was obtained that entire areas of the Horseshoe were once dry land.

But the real sensation was the photographs of the sunken Ampere plateau, lying about 70 meters below the surface of the water. They were made by a Soviet oceanographic expedition to research vessel"Academician Petrovsky" in January 1974. Its participant, V.I. Marakuev, a specialist in underwater photography, among thousands of photographs of the bottom “caught” those that turned out to be so sensational that the word “Atlantis” immediately hit the front pages of newspapers around the world.

One of the photographs shows a fragment of a wall about one and a half meters high and about two meters long, made of stone blocks connected by a bunch. On the other there is the same wall from above. The photograph allows you to determine the wall thickness of approximately 0.75 meters, as well as see the seams connecting the treated blocks. The third photo shows five steps, partly filled with lava, and the fourth shows a stone platform made of flat slabs.

In the light of these and many other finds, today it is no longer possible to deny that the Atlantic hides the remains of some kind of human civilization. The most ancient legends about the “people of the sea” and their buildings received serious confirmation in reality.

Geologists who took bottom samples in various parts of the Atlantic in subsequent years collected a whole collection of volcanic rocks, which, without any doubt, solidified and crystallized in the atmosphere, outside the waters. Their age does not exceed 15 thousand years. So it can be considered proven that at that time large areas of the Atlantic Ocean floor were the earth's surface.

Wegener's theory of continental drift gives us further evidence. The coasts of the Old and New Worlds, which once formed a single whole, are visually linked on the map. The eastern shores of Brazil and Argentina correspond to the western shores of Africa. Greenland stretches towards Norway, Florida - towards Liberia. There is also geological correspondence on both sides of the ocean. Everything is in place here. With one exception: a piece of this mosaic that is supposed to be in the southern part of the North Atlantic has disappeared. But that's where he is. Only underwater! And in the very place where most legends would stop Atlantis.

Nature also remembers her. Birds remember. Sailors and fishermen report a striking phenomenon observed south of the Azores. It turns out that migratory birds, during winter migrations from Europe to South America, begin to circle here so low above the sea, as if they were looking for places to land. Not finding land, they fly further, but many weakened birds land on the water. This is repeated here in the spring, during the return flight. It seems that the birds are instinctively looking for the land on which flocks rested thousands of years ago.

It's a similar story with butterflies. The species of carpida, which lives on the northern coast of South America, seems to “remember” some land that once protruded from the waters northwest of Guyana. Every year, the males of this butterfly undertake a massive flight into the ocean and settle on the water in whole clouds.

As for the possibility of sinking vast areas of land to significant depths, much has become clear in last years. Familiarity with the features of the seabed, the movement of continental plates, as well as “programming” probable collisions in ancient times globe with giant cosmic bodies allows us today to scientifically substantiate several reliable hypotheses of Atlantis’s immersion in the ocean. One of them, which takes into account an extremely large amount of data from various fields and is based on solid chronology and calculations, was developed by Dr. Emilio Spendicato, a physicist and professor at the University of Bergamo in Italy - materials on it were kindly provided to me by Dr. Jan Golubiec from the Polish Academy of Sciences.

This hypothesis considers the catastrophic disappearance of Atlantis as reported by Plato. In particular, it is largely confirmed by satellite photography of craters that appeared as a result of collisions of the earth with large meteorites; some craters (for example, in Brazil, which are 220 million years old) have a diameter of several tens of kilometers. The crater in Canada (Labrador Peninsula) became the Manicouagan Reservoir; its size is comparable to the Copernicus crater on the Moon. There are, of course, many more similar craters at the bottom of the oceans.

Such collisions should have led to innumerable long-term consequences on Earth: colossal geological, gravitational and magnetic disturbances, climate changes catastrophic for the planet.

According to Plato, the death of Atlantis occurred 9 thousand years before him, that is, about 11.5 thousand years ago, counting from our time. Professor Spendicato became interested in what happened during that period throughout the planet. And what? It was then that the last glaciation on Earth ended. The scientist calculated that a meteorite with a diameter of about 1.4 kilometers and a density of 3.3 grams per cubic centimeter crashed into the Earth in the Atlantic region, near the great island, at a speed of 25 kilometers per second. The energy released was equivalent to the explosion of a million megaton hydrogen bombs. Even at a distance of 10 thousand kilometers from the impact site, the temperature rose by 30 degrees, and winds blew at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour for 14 hours.

As a result of this collision, a crater 6 kilometers deep and 15 kilometers in diameter was formed. Since the ocean was not as deep then as it is now, a crater appeared at its bottom and an earthquake occurred, most likely causing the release of liquid magma. Then the instantaneous filling of the colossal crater with water thrown out and falling back formed a gigantic wave of a kilometer height, which even at a distance of 1 thousand kilometers went like a 100-meter wall. The thermal shock led to the explosive evaporation of huge masses of water, saturation of the atmosphere and long-term rainfall throughout the Earth. The result was the biblical flood, about which many peoples of the world still have legends. Due to the greenhouse effect, the temperature on the planet has risen so much that the rapid melting of glaciers has begun and, as a result, the level of the World Ocean has risen by about 120 meters.

The “fatal” mistake of Plato (Critias or Solon), which led to confusion with the location of Atlantis, is revealed.

Atlantis has not disappeared, it exists and lies in the depths of the sea. Much has been said about Atlantis, thousands of research materials have been written. Historians, archaeologists, and searchers have proposed fifty versions of possible locations around the world (in Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, Greenland, North and South America, in Africa, the Black, Aegean, Caspian Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and so on), but the exact location is not named. Why so much confusion?

Starting to understand, you discover one pattern: all assumptions are initially tied to one similarity, an ancient find, a single description, to which the materials were subsequently “adjusted.” As a result, nothing worked. There is a similarity, but Atlantis cannot be found.

We'll go a different way

Let's look for Atlantis in a different way, which in this case (judging by the known proposals) has not been used by anyone before. First, let's take the method of exclusion, where Atlantis could not exist. As we narrow the circle, we will use all the “reference points” that were proposed by the ancient Greek scientist, sage (428-347 BC) Plato (Aristocles) in his works – “Timaeus” and “Critius”. These documents provide the only description of Atlantis, its inhabitants and historical events related to the life of the legendary island.

“Aristotle taught me to satisfy my mind only with what reasoning convinces me of, and not just with the authority of teachers. Such is the power of truth: you try to refute it, but your very attacks elevate it and give it greater value,” said the Italian philosopher, physicist, and mathematician Galileo Galilei in the 16th century.

Below is a map of the world as it was represented in Greece during the times of Plato and Herodotus (IV - V centuries BC).

Mediterranean Sea

So, let's start cutting off the ends. Atlantis could not be located in any far corner of the world and it was not even in the Atlantic Ocean. You will ask why? Because the war (according to the history of the narrative) between Athens and Atlantis could not take place anywhere except in the Mediterranean Sea on this “patch of civilization” due to the limited development of mankind. The world is big, but the developed world is small. Near neighbors fight more often and constantly among themselves than distant neighbors. Athens simply would not have been able to reach the borders of Atlantis with its army and fleet if it was located somewhere far away. Water and vast distances were an insurmountable obstacle.

“This barrier was insurmountable for people, because ships and navigation did not yet exist,” says Plato in his work Critias.

In ancient Greek mythology, which arose many thousands of years after the destruction of Atlantis, the only (!) hero Hercules (according to Homer in the 12th century BC) accomplished a feat, according to legend, traveling to the farthest western point of the world - to the edge Mediterranean Sea.

“When the Atlas Mountains appeared on Hercules’ way, he did not climb them, but cut his way through, thus creating the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic. This point served as the border for sailors in ancient times, therefore, in a figurative sense, the “Pillars of Hercules” are the end of the world, the limit of the world. And the expression “to reach the pillars of Hercules” means “to reach the limit.”

See the picture The Strait of Gibraltar today is the place where the historical hero Hercules reached.

In the foreground is the Rock of Gibraltar on the edge of continental Europe, and in the background on the coast of Africa is Mount Jebel Musa in Morocco.

What western limit of the earth Hercules reached (“the edge of the world”) was unattainable for other mortals. Thus, Atlantis was closer to the center ancient civilization– she was in the Mediterranean Sea. But where exactly?

The Pillars of Hercules (according to Plato’s narrative, behind which lay the island of Atlantis) in the Mediterranean Sea at that time there were seven pairs (Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bosphorus, Kerch Strait, Mouth of the Nile, etc.). The pillars were located at the entrances to the straits, and all had the same names - Hercules (later the Latin name - Hercules). The pillars served as landmarks and beacons for ancient sailors.

“First of all, let us briefly recall that, according to legend, nine thousand years ago there was a war between those peoples who lived on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules and all those who lived on this side: we have to tell about this war... How we have already mentioned, this was once an island larger in size than Libya and Asia (not their entire geographical territory, but rather the areas inhabited in ancient times), but now it has collapsed due to earthquakes and turned into impassable silt, blocking the path for sailors who would try to sail from us into the open sea, and making sailing unthinkable.” (Plato, Critias).

This information is about Atlantis, which dates back to the 6th century BC. came from the Egyptian priest Timaeus from the city of Sais, located on the coast of Africa, in the western Nile Delta. The current name of this village is Sa el-Hagar (see below picture of the Nile River delta).

When Timaeus said that the barrier from the remains of the sunken Atlantis blocked the path “from us to the open sea,” then speaking about us (about himself and about Egypt), this clearly testified to the location of Atlantis. That is, it lies in the direction of travel from the Egyptian mouth of the Nile to the wide waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

In ancient times, the entrance to the main navigable (western) mouth of the Nile, nicknamed the mouth of Hercules, that is, Hercules, where the city of Irakleum was located and there was a temple in honor of Hercules, was also called the pillars of Hercules. Over time, the silt and floating material from the sunken Atlantis were carried across the sea, and the island itself sank even deeper into the abyss.

“Since many great floods occurred in nine thousand years (and that is how many years passed from those times before Plato), the earth did not accumulate in the form of any significant shallows, as in other places, but was washed away by the waves and then disappeared into the abyss.” (Plato, Critias).

Crete

Next, we exclude other, impossible locations. Atlantis could not be in the Mediterranean Sea north of the island Crete. Today in that area there are countless numbers of fish scattered throughout the waters. small islands, which does not correspond to the story of the flooding (!), and by this very fact excludes this entire territory. But that's not even the main thing. There would not be enough area to accommodate Atlantis (according to the description of its size) in the sea north of Crete.

Expedition of a famous explorer depths of the sea French scientist-oceanographer in the area north of Crete on the periphery of the islands of Thira (Strongele), Fer, discovered the remains of an ancient sunken city, but from the above it follows that it most likely belongs to another civilization than Atlantis.

In the archipelago of islands Aegean Sea earthquakes and disasters associated with volcanic activity are known, leading to local subsidence of the earth, and according to new evidence, they are occurring in our time. For example, a recently sunken medieval fortress in the Aegean Sea near the city of Marmaris in a bay on the coast of Turkey.

Between Cyprus, Crete and Africa

Narrowing the search, we come to the conclusion that only one thing remains - Atlantis could only be in one place opposite the mouth of the Nile - between the islands of Crete, Cyprus and the northern coast of Africa. She is there today at a depth and lies, having fallen into a deep basin of the sea.

The collapse of an almost oval water area with influxes from the shores, horizontal wrinkling (from sliding) of sedimentary rocks towards the center of the “funnel” is clearly visible from an online review of the seabed from space. The bottom in this place resembles a pit, sprinkled with soft sedimentary rock on top; there is no hard “crust of the continental mantle” underneath it. Only visible on the body of the Earth is a hollow inward that is not overgrown with the firmament.

The Egyptian priest Timaeus, in his story about the location of the silt from the flooded Atlantis, gives a link to the Pillars of Hercules (it was logical for him to say - those closest to him), located at the mouth of the Western Nile.

In another case (later, already in Greece), when Plato describes the power of Atlantis, we are already talking about other pillars, as mentioned above, in the Mediterranean there were then seven of them. When Plato presented the text of the work (based on the retelling of Solon and Critias), the Egyptian priest Timaeus (the primary source of the narrative) had been dead for 200 years by that time, and there was no one to clarify the information about which pillars the conversation was going on. Therefore, subsequent confusion arose with the location of Atlantis.

“After all, according to the evidence of our records, your state (Athens) put a limit on the insolence of countless military forces that set off to conquer all of Europe and Asia, and kept their path from Atlantic sea. […] On this island, called Atlantis, a kingdom of amazing size and power arose, whose power extended over the entire island, many other islands and part of the mainland, and moreover, on this side of the strait they took possession of Libya (northern Africa ) up to Egypt and Europe up to Tirrenia (west coast of Italy). (Plato, Timaeus).

The sea that washed the island of Atlantis (between Crete, Cyprus and Egypt) was called the Atlantic in ancient times; it was located in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the modern seas: the Aegean, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian.

Subsequently, due to an error in linking Atlantis not to the Nile, but to the Gibraltar pillars, the name “Atlantic” sea automatically spread to the ocean beyond the strait. The once inland Atlantic Sea, due to the inaccuracy of interpretation of the story of Timaeus and descriptions (by Plato, Critias or Solon), became Atlantic Ocean. As the Russian proverb says: “We got lost in three pines” (more precisely, in seven pairs of pillars). When Atlantis sank into the abyss of the sea, the Atlantic Sea disappeared with it.

Timaeus, narrating the history of Atlantis, noted that the victory of Athens brought freedom from slavery to all other peoples (including the Egyptians) who had not yet been enslaved by the Atlanteans - “on this side of the Pillars of Hercules,” speaking about themselves - about Egypt.

“It was then, Solon, that your state showed the whole world a brilliant proof of its valor and strength: surpassing everyone in its strength of spirit and experience in military affairs, it first stood at the head of the Hellenes, but due to the betrayal of its allies it found itself left to its own devices, and met alone with extreme dangers and yet defeated the conquerors and erected the trophies of victory. It saved those who were not yet enslaved from the threat of slavery; but all the rest, no matter how many of us lived on this side of the Pillars of Hercules, it generously made free. But later, when the time came for unprecedented earthquakes and floods, in one terrible day all your military strength was swallowed up by the opening of the earth; likewise, Atlantis disappeared, plunging into the abyss. After this, the sea in those places became, to this day, unnavigable and inaccessible due to shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind.” (Plato, Timaeus).

Description of the island

The location of Atlantis can be further clarified from the description of the island itself.

“Poseidon, having received the island of Atlantis as his inheritance..., approximately in this place: from the sea to the middle of the island a plain stretched, according to legend, more beautiful than all other plains and very fertile.” (Plato, Timaeus).

“This entire region lay very high and fell steeply to the sea, but the entire plain surrounding the city (capital) and itself surrounded by mountains that stretched all the way to the sea, was a smooth surface, three thousand stadia in length (580 km), and in the direction from the sea to the middle - two thousand (390 km.). This entire part of the island was facing the south wind, and was closed from the north by mountains. These mountains are praised by legend because they were superior in number, size and beauty to all those present today. The plain... was an oblong quadrangle, mostly rectilinear.” (Plato, Critias).

So, following the description, a rectangular plain measuring 580 by 390 kilometers stretched approximately to the middle of the island of Atlantis, open to the south and closed from the north by large and high mountains. Fitting these dimensions into a geographical map north of the mouth of the Nile, we obtain that southern part Atlantis could very well be adjacent to Africa (near the Libyan cities of Tobruk, Derna and Egyptian cities on the coast west of Alexandria), and its northern mountainous part could be (but not a fact) the islands of Crete (in the west) and Cyprus (in the east).

The story about the fauna of the island speaks in favor of the fact that Atlantis was connected to Africa in earlier times (than its mention in ancient Egyptian papyri), namely tens of thousands of years ago.

“There were even a great many elephants on the island, for there was enough food not only for all other living creatures inhabiting swamps, lakes and rivers, mountains or plains, but also for this beast, the largest and most voracious of all animals.” (Plato, Critias).

It should also be taken into account that with the end of the Ice Age and the beginning of the melting of the northern glaciers, the level of the world's oceans rose by 100-150 meters and probably the part of the land that once connected Atlantis and the mainland was gradually flooded. Elephants and the inhabitants of the island of Atlanteans (named after their king Atlas), who came here earlier from the depths of Africa, remained on a large island surrounded by the sea.

The Atlanteans were ordinary modern people, and not four-meter giants, otherwise the Hellenes from Athens would not have been able to defeat them. The island, isolated position of the inhabitants prompted civilization to develop separately and actively, ahead of the external warring barbarians (fortunately, everything necessary was on the island).

On Atlantis (in its capital, which looks like a hill extinct volcano) hot springs flowed from underground mineral water. This indicates high seismic activity in the territory located on the “thin” mantle of the earth’s crust... “a spring of cold and a spring of hot water, which provided water in abundance, and, moreover, amazing both in taste and in healing power.” (Plato, Critias).

Diving underwater

I will not speculate now what caused the internal “hiccups” of the Earth, as a result of which Atlantis sank into the basin of the Mediterranean Sea within a day, and then even deeper. But we must pay attention that exactly in that place along the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea there is a fault boundary between the African and European continental tectonic plates.

The depth of the sea there is very large - about 3000-4000 meters. It is possible that a powerful impact from a giant meteorite North America in Mexico, which, according to the US National Academy of Sciences, occurred 13 thousand years ago (around the same time) and caused an inertial wave and plate movement in the Mediterranean.

Just as continental plates, creeping on top of each other, breaking the edges, rear up mountains - the same process, but in the opposite direction when diverging, forms subsidence and deep depressions. The African plate moved slightly away from the European plate, and this was quite enough to lower Atlantis into the abyss of the sea.

The fact that Africa has previously moved away from Europe and Asia in the history of the Earth is clearly evidenced by the huge intercontinental rift running through the Mediterranean Sea. The fault is clearly visible on geographical map along the lines (seas) of rift in the earth's crust, which go in the directions of the Dead Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Aden, Persian and Oman gulfs.

See the picture below of how the continent of Africa moves away from Asia, forming the above-mentioned seas and bays at the break points.

Crete - Atlantis

It is possible that the present island of Crete was previously that very northern, high mountainous part of Atlantis, which did not fall into the abyss of the sea, but, having broken away, remained on the “European continental cornice”. On the other hand, if you look at Crete on a geographical map, it does not stand on the very cliff of the mantle of the European continent, but about 100 kilometers from the basin of the Mediterranean (Atlantic) Sea. This means that the catastrophic rift of Atlantis according to the current coastline there was no island of Crete.

But here we must take into account the fact that since those times the sea level has risen by 100-150 meters (or more) due to the melting of glaciers. It is possible that Crete and Cyprus, as independent units, were part of the archipelago of the island Atlantis.

Historians and archaeologists write: “Excavations on Crete show that even four to five millennia after the supposed destruction of Atlantis, the inhabitants of this Mediterranean island sought to settle further from the coast. (Memory of ancestors?). An unknown fear drove them to the mountains. The first centers of agriculture and culture are also located at some distance from the sea."

The former proximity of Atlantis to Africa and the mouth of the Nile is indirectly evidenced by the vast Qattara depression in North Africa in the Libyan desert, 50 km from the Mediterranean coast, west of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Qattara Depression is minus 133 meters deep below sea level.

See the picture above - the huge Qattara Depression near the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.

There is also another lowland on the tectonic fault line - this is the Dead Sea (minus 395 meters) in Israel. They testify to a once-common territorial catastrophe associated with the subsidence of large areas of land due to the divergence of the European and African continental plates in different directions.

What does it mean to establish the exact location of Atlantis?

Mediterranean depression in place former Atlantis too deep. At first, the silt that rose and then settled to the bottom and subsequent sedimentary deposits somewhat covered Atlantis. The golden capital with its countless treasures in the temple of Poseidon turned out to be at great depth.

The search for the capital of Atlantis in the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea in the “triangle” between the islands of Crete, Cyprus, and the mouth of the Nile will bring useful results to the world history of mankind, but this requires research by deep-sea vehicles.

To find the capital, the attentive reader has guidelines... In Russia there are two Mir underwater stations that could survey and study the bottom.

For example, Italian oceanographers in the summer of 2015, on the shelf of the island of Pantelleria, located approximately in the middle between Sicily and Africa, at a depth of 40 meters on the seabed, discovered a giant man-made column 12 meters long, weighing 15 tons, broken in half. The column shows traces of drilling holes. Its age is estimated to be about 10 thousand years (comparable to the Atlantean era). The divers also found the remains of a pier - a ridge of stones half a meter in size, laid out in a straight line, protecting the entrance to the ancient ship harbor.
These finds indicate that the search for the capital of Atlantis is not hopeless.

Another encouraging thing is that the confusion with the “Pillars of Hercules” has been successfully resolved, and the location of Atlantis has finally been established.

Already today, for the sake of historical truth, the Mediterranean basin, at the bottom of which lies legendary island in memory of Atlantis and its inhabitants, it is possible and should return its ancient name - the Atlantic Sea. This will be the first important world event in the search and discovery of Atlantis.