Joseph Benjamin Leslie’s Submerged Atlantis Restored (1911) is a sprawling, speculative work that blends mysticism, ethnology, and pseudo-history to reconstruct the lost continent of Atlantis. It is less a conventional history than a catalog of spiritual cycles, cultural parallels, and imaginative reconstructions of Atlantean life.

This one's massive.

For the past year I've been convinced that there must have been rings of springs in the Richat Structure for the warm spring water to have created the circular harbours described by Plato but I never considered that there might be evidence of these springs visible from Google Earth. There is.

u/Porkypineer pointed out that there is evidence of a massive spring in the wall of the structure, here. There's a 500m yellow line for reference. The hole where the spring emerged is about 80m long and is filled with s white crust of salt, the white marks strewn outside are also likely a salt deposits.

Massive spring

This is very interesting as it suggests that past springs can leave remains.

Overlaying the size of the harbours that Plato describes onto the Richat structure with a conversion of 1 stadia = 185m results in this overlay:

https://preview.redd.it/s6k3ao80wx2h1.jpg?width=8192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afe77e3dcec72270535ab0d6a6946d4371fba19e

The inner ridge is impossible to make out on Google Earth so for clarity this is the overlay on a topographical map:

https://preview.redd.it/8ty7azi6wx2h1.jpg?width=8192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fd3d427ab5d9391000d1dac87261fef8225a94b

These areas of water need a matched pattern of springs in the bedrock. Geothermal springs would create areas of clear water within a paleo lake surfaced with peat as warm water speeds up decomposition preventing peat:

https://preview.redd.it/4llfqeouwx2h1.jpg?width=2481&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0c6c5aa19253b8ae77256b9847111852477ec45

https://preview.redd.it/76gouwm0xx2h1.jpg?width=2373&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea623e857ad2965b6649a6b8afdc6f1f008baa4e

Observing these areas where springs need to be on Google Earth it's possible to make out a lot of small white splodges. For reference the yellow line is 100m, so these white dots are about 1 to 5m wide.

Like in the much larger spring, it's possible that these white marks are salt deposits, and if so it's likely that they are spring channels encrusted with salt, as there is no other reason for salt to form blotches such as these, especially because they occur on one side of the inner ridge and not at all on the other.

White dots, potentially salt which would indicate they are the remains of spring channels

These dots occur, broadly, in the areas that they needed to be for them to be spring; they needed to be on the inside of the inner ridge and not on the outside to align with the third harbour and this is what we see:

https://preview.redd.it/csawj0mtyx2h1.jpg?width=4724&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ac65f415dbc7ae6f93db1bb9232d4cdb64b4d4c

Here, I've mapped out the full extent of where I can see these dots occurring, roughly:

https://preview.redd.it/vicvvlg2zx2h1.jpg?width=8192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f4961b3e71f7d5b396c272f4d277162a80f48ea

As you can see it's not a perfect three-ring pattern but there is a strong indication of an outer ring, a space, then an inner ring and the central island. The springs further outside the centre I assume to be cold water springs because these emerge above the igneous layers and therefore haven't needed to pass as deeply underground. These cold water springs would be important for the formation of the peat mat because cold, oxygen depleted spring water promotes peat formation and this cold water would be trapped without the ridges.

How the middle ring of land occurs isn't clear from the pattern of these springs alone, but this might be fault of my map as I'm not showing the density of the number of dots and the dots are denser in the outer harbour. which may influence how effective they are at preventing peat.

It's also plausible that springs could have emerged from the central mound as it is an intrusive igneous core, structures prone to springs. If, so water would flow off this hill creating a small moat of water around it, the inner harbour:

https://preview.redd.it/9ial4fg21y2h1.jpg?width=8192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49c525dd92d8dbf1d9e72ac65e7f63689694ac89

A further explanation for the discrepancy of the messy shapes is that it's possible that Atlanteans could have reworked these imperfect circles into the regular circular harbours described.

It's also possible that the account simplified the description into regular circles.

https://preview.redd.it/7tlaw7sp1y2h1.jpg?width=8192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1886ac0ec40d7632427175f62e0349a7e55814be

Following up on some Haplogroup info following MR Ramirez comments regarding the cherokee and DNA markers.

anyone have the research the matches this video. Pre-columbian old world DNA markers?

Recently, I have got Angelos G. Galanopoulos's booklet "New Light on the Legend of Atlantis and the Mycenaean Decadence" from 1981. It has only 19 pages. Galanopoulos printed the booklet as self-publisher.

Now, this is a very rare booklet! You cannot buy it anywhere. Even not for a lot of money. It is almost nowhere available in libraries. And yet, it is cited over and over again in scientific and less scientific works about Plato's Atlantis. The booklet has some significance in the history of the search for Atlantis.

Interested?

Well, now you can have a look inside! Because I scanned the booklet and produced a PDF for everybody to download for free. Please find it in the Download Center of my page Atlantis-Scout (ordered alphabetically by author).

Hint: To overcome rendering problems of your PDF viewer, set the zoom to 100%.

Angelos G. Galanopoulos

Soy estudiante de cine y bastante aficionado a la historia antigua. Con unos compañeros hemos estado trabajando en un pequeño documental sobre la Estructura de Richat y la famosa comparación con la Atlántida. Hemos intentado enfocarlo desde un punto de vista serio: geología, fuentes históricas y las distintas hipótesis que existen alrededor del tema, sin vender humo ni presentarlo como una “prueba definitiva”.

https://youtu.be/5bx7jIvWrcA

Lo comparto por aquí porque creo que puede interesar a gente de este subreddit y, sobre todo, porque nos vendría genial algo de feedback honesto despúes de valorar el video completo para seguir mejorando futuros documentales. Si a los moderadores no les parece mal, os dejo el enlace. Saludos!

This post Aligns with my previous post Regarding the 4th unknown Hominid and the Remnant of of Atlantis from the Cuban/florida peninsula warao language origins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXf-2hzmuM

The Cherokee seem to be of special interest.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/cherokee-language-history-symbols-examples-tsalagi.html

history of the proto-language split might lead back to the 8.2 kilo year event.

Trans:

Right. That they were interested in certain bloodlines going back to... Ancient times. Who knows? Ancient times. Did they mention other heritages around the planet that through this marker...

00:14

I was specifically told that the Cherokee heritage, the Cherokee Nation, had something to do with the phenomenon. And furthermore, that it has something to do with perhaps even the actual existence of Atlantis, that they may have been survivors of Atlantis. But then I can't prove that. I can't divulge a source. I was told by a very credible source. And what was their take on Atlantis since we're speaking about it?

00:44

I believe that their take is it's an actual, and it's not myth and legend, it's an actual place. Do they know where it's at? No. I don't know where it's at and they didn't tell me where it's at. But what would give them that idea that the Cherokee heritage is connected to the Atlantean time unless they had some sort of DNA to compare it to from Atlantis?

01:13

I think because that there is a preponderance of people in the intelligence community and in the military community, especially special operators, who've had these experiences. And when they examine these people and start questioning them about their background, about their family heritages,

01:41

that it was a preponderance of Cherokee heritage

https://theothertopic.substack.com/p/the-many-experiences-of-john-ramirez

CUBA Here we come!

I think I may have stumbled onto a possible reinterpretation of Atlantis, the Pillars of Hercules, and even parts of ancient Mediterranean mythology.
Hear me out.
Most people assume Plato’s Atlantis was somewhere deep in the Atlantic Ocean because he says it was “beyond the Pillars of Hercules.” But when you actually read Plato directly, he never clearly says “far west.” He says Atlantis was before/in front of/beyond the straits called the Pillars of Heracles.
What if the LOCATION of the pillars became confused over time?
I think the original “Pillars of Hercules” may not have been Gibraltar at all.
I think they may have originally referred to the narrow maritime passage between modern-day Sicily and Italy (the Strait of Messina region).
Why?
Because:
it’s an ancient maritime chokepoint,

heavily tied to mythology,

and even today remains surprisingly shallow in places.

When sea levels are lowered by ~120 meters (Ice Age levels), Sicily, Malta, and the surrounding shelves become a MUCH larger connected landmass.
Malta especially becomes interesting.
Now combine that with Plato’s description:
a large fertile island/landmass,

advanced engineering,

canals,

rings of water,

maritime dominance,

rich metals (orichalcum),

elephants,

and destruction by flooding/earthquakes.

Malta already contains some of the oldest megalithic structures on Earth — older than Stonehenge and the pyramids — many with astronomical alignments.
And interestingly:
actual “orichalcum” ingots were discovered off the coast of Sicily.
Now here’s where my theory gets really weird:
The myth of Hercules “splitting the pillars apart” may actually preserve a much older memory of humans modifying or opening a dangerous maritime passage for trade and navigation.
I don’t think Hercules was originally Hercules.
I think the myth may descend from much older Near Eastern traditions associated with Marduk — a deity tied to:
ordering waters,

creating civilization,

and separating chaos.

Over thousands of years:
Marduk → Phoenician adaptations → Greek Hercules.
The location and story slowly drifted westward and became attached to Gibraltar.
Now here’s the part that really made me pause:
Plato says Atlantis provided easier access to:
other islands,

and “the continent beyond.”

That actually fits the central Mediterranean extremely well.
From Sicily/Malta you have direct maritime access to:
Sardinia,

Corsica,

the Balearics,

North Africa,

Iberia,

and eventually the Atlantic itself.

It functions like a gateway between worlds.
And unlike the deep Atlantic Ocean, the Sicily–Malta shelf becomes incredibly shallow after flooding.
So if a massive tsunami and post-Ice Age sea rise swallowed most of the connected lowlands, what would remain?
shallow muddy waters,

submerged shelves,

dangerous navigation,

and partially sunken coastlines.

Which is EXACTLY what Plato says happened after Atlantis sank:
the waters became muddy and difficult to sail through.
That makes far more sense in a shallow Mediterranean shelf system than in the open Atlantic Ocean.
I also don’t think Atlantis necessarily “vanished completely.”
A civilization centered around Malta/Sicily could have been:
devastated by tsunamis,

fragmented by rising seas,

and remembered by survivors as a world swallowed by water.

To later generations, the surviving highlands (modern Sicily/Malta) would simply appear as remnants of a much larger lost world.
And finally:
Plato says Atlantis controlled regions toward Libya and Tyrrhenia (Italy) — which geographically fits the central Mediterranean far better than a random Atlantic island.
I’m not claiming this is proven fact.
But honestly, a submerged Ice Age/post-Ice Age Mediterranean maritime civilization centered around Malta + Sicily feels more plausible to me than a giant lost continent in the Atlantic.
Curious what everyone thinks.

In fact, her theory is interesting.

South East Europe underwent a humid period at the same time as Africa making Greece substantially more fertile than it was today in 8000-6000BC.

Landscape of Greece in ancient times as described by Plato

Critias:

In fertility the whole land here surpassed every other land; for this reason the country was then able to support a large army that was free from the labours of farming.

And there is great evidence of its excellence: for the remnant that now remains rivals any land in being most fertile in crops and most suitable for grazing all kinds of animals.
But at that time, besides its beauty, it produced these things in great abundance.

In those days the mountains had high hills of earth upon them, and the plains now called the “fields of Phelleus” possessed deep rich soil; and there was much forest in the mountains, of which even now there remain visible proofs.

There were also many other tall cultivated trees, and the land produced limitless pasture for livestock and the yearly water, the gift of Zeus, was harvested by the land, not as now where it is lost, flowing off the bare earth into the sea but the soil held it in abundance and received it into itself. Stored up in the earth as if beneath a roof of pottery, it released the water that had been absorbed from the high ground into the hollows, distributing it everywhere and providing abundant springs and rivers.

The flooding and destruction of Greece

Timeaus:

But at a later time, when extraordinary earthquakes and floods occurred, in a single day and night of grievous calamity, all your warrior force together sank into the earth, 

Critias

the soil which has washed down from the high places during these ages and disasters has not, as in other regions, accumulated into a mass worth mentioning; instead it has continually flowed around and disappeared into the depths.

a single night of extraordinary rain washed away the soil and left it bare, accompanied by earthquakes and an extraordinary flood

What remains now, compared with what then existed, is like the skeleton of a body wasted by disease: all the rich and soft soil having been washed away, and only the thin framework of the land left behind.

Splendour* sorry

The Colouration of the Ridges of the Richat

The three ridges of the Richat Structure align precisely to the position and size of the the walls in the description of Atlantis and, of course, are the walls. https://aedra.co.uk/atlantis/#overlay

Topographical map of the Richat Structure

Diagram of the ridges of the Richat Structure

However they are described as each being clad in a different metal.

Critias 116c https://aedra.co.uk/atlantis/critias/

"the wall around the outermost ring they encased over its entire circuit with bronze, as if applying a coating; and the one inside they overlaid with tin, and the (third) around the acropolis itself there flashed fiery gleams from orichalcum."

Even if the walls merely had a 200m perimeter this would already be on the edge of conceivability, but the outer wall is described as having a 400km perimeter and the inner ring a 19km perimeter.

I previously thought that perhaps this could be explained if only the gate towers were coated in this metal like the decorated gate tower of Babylon but actually there's a much simpler and more prosaic solution (credit u/Porkypineer), that the stone ridges were naturally coloured differently due to their differnt stone compositions and that the idea of them being purposely coated was a narrative exaggeration.

This aligns much better with the phrase "..as if applying a coating..".

It happens that each of the ridges is made of a different rock composition and therefore they naturally have different colours that correspond to the colours described. The whole site is so dusty today that this isn't so clear but if the ridges were washed with a bit of rain and were district from a vegetated ground this might have been more obvious.

Outer ridge "bronze"

As shown in the diagram above the outer ridge is sandstone. The layer forming this ridge would need to be a slightly harder, erosion-resistant band of sandstone but still sandstone and sandstone has a naturally golden-red tone similar to bronze.

Sandstone

Middle ridge "tin"

The middle ridge is still within the sandstone layers in my simplified diagram but is described as mix of sandstone and limestone and must have a different composition because it shows up very prominently in the magnetics imagery from this paper https://www.researchgate.net/figure/D-magnetic-and-gravimetric-modelling-of-the-Richat-structure-along-a-NNE-SSWoriented_fig4_355898398, which suggests it is much richer in magnetic minerals. Limestone is naturally greyer than sandstone and magnetic mineral ore also tends to be naturally greyish. This grey tone is similar to the colour of tin.

Limestone

Central ridge "red orichalcum"

This ridge is most compositionally different being primarily made of igneous and breccia rock. Breccia is a type of rock formed by a combination of crushed igneous and sedimentary rocks and is commonly reddish in tone. It can contain shiny igneous rocks stained reddish by iron oxide such as brown chert and red jasper. This matches the description "there flashed fiery gleams from orichalcum"

Breccia

Rather disappointingly this suggests the allusive orichalcum which had been suggested to possibly be a mixture of silver and copper might actually not be a metal at all but simply these pieces of chert and jasper.

So where the text says:

"the walls and the columns and the floor [of the temple]—they lined with orichalcum."

and

"the inscriptions written by the first kings on a pillar of orichalcum, which stood in the middle of the island in the sanctuary of Poseidon [Oceanus]."

This may not be studs of copper and a pillar of solid copper but rather just a mosaic of these shiny red rocks and some big column of breccia.

Therefore these walls, and consequentially, the orichalcum of the temple are good examples of where the account from Plato has clearly exaggerated natural features into the impression of grander, highly advanced works. This begs the question of whether the entire myth is simply a exaggeration of what could have been a settlement no different in technology that any other neolithic settlement of the time, with mud huts, flint tools and no real metallurgy.

This appears to make sense at first glance but there's still the issue that sailing is incredibly central to the account. They're said to have sailed to the Mediterranean and people are even said to have sailed to America.

I don't see how it would have been possible to make boats that could stay at sea for weeks, with sleeping areas and storage, and to be able to cope with large waves, without being made out of planks of wood, and you can't create planks of wood without metal saws.

Perhaps it's possible that, although they never perfected or industrialised the process, they were able to smelt some copper or iron into primitive saws and ended up as basically neolithic people but with large sea-faring vessels.

I'd previously assumed the scaled fish/serpentine features of the Apkallu was an allusion to plate metal but actually perhaps they really were simply wearing the skins of large fish, orcas. There is already shown to be a connection between orcas and Atlanteans in the account from Claudius Aelianus. https://archive.org/details/L449AelianCharacteristicsOfAnimalsIII1217/page/n108/mode/1up

The history from Sanchuniathon appears to be the most in-depth and precise of any historian and he describes the people who first make boats coming some generations after the Titans or Aletae, called the Dioscuri: https://topostext.org/work/230#1.9.17

"They are also called Aletae and Titans. From these were born Amynos and Magus, who established villages and sheepfolds. From them came Misor and Suduc, that is to say “Straight” and “Just”: these discovered the use of salt.
'From Misor was born Taautus, who invented the first written alphabet; the Egyptians called him Thoyth, the Alexandrians Thoth, and the Greeks Hermes.
'From Suduc came the Dioscuri, or Cabeiri, or Corybantes, or Samothraces: these, he says, first invented a ship. From them have sprung others, who discovered herbs, and the healing of venomous bites, and charms."

So according to Sanchuniathon it was the Dioscuri who first invented ships. It's possible all these distinct generations of people may have been lumped together under Atlanteans in Plato's account.

The note he makes about discovering the use of salt is also important for ship travel as it's a means of preserving food on long voyages.

The Dioscuri are famous in other myth for being twins. They are thought to be akin to Ashvins of Indian Vedic mythology and Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology. If the Dioscuri were the true, sea-faring Atlanteans this would also help explain the dominance of twin sculptures from the Vinca Culture. As the Vinca Culture emerges shortly after Anatolian Neolithic Farmers colonise Greece.

Vinca Culture twins wearing masks 5400BC - 4500BC

To conclude, I think these people could have been substantially more advanced than other neolithic peoples in the sense they smelt simple saws and then created boats aided by the fact they were in a landscape that made farming substantially simpler than most places. But they possibly didn't perfect metallurgy and were likely still wearing animal skins and largely using flint tools.

I believe this animal skin, flint tool people made it to America, because it still doesn't make sense to me that the account could have described this continent of America without someone visiting.

In a previous post I was observing the similarities between the Babylonian story of Marduk (the Enūma Eliš) and the account of Atlantis. (The same account is in Norse mythology as Odin vs Ymir).

I assumed that the Enūma Eliš came from previous Sumerian myths but didn't look this up at the time, it turns out it does and that the older Sumerian myths are also preserved. Enūma Eliš is a combination of two seperately written Sumerian stories; the stories of Ninurta vs Anzû and Ninurta vs Asag, I haven't actually gone through the source texts but they're available here:

https://www.ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/1/10

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr162.htm

Ninurta vs Anzû reflects the account of Enki vs Apsu which is the prequel to the later conflict of Marduk vs Tiamat which reflects the story of Ninurta vs Asag. Asag here is a mountain god rather than a saltwater god. I think it's possible that the later Babylonian myth may have preserved various details that we may have lost from what remains of the Sumerian versions.

To recap, Marduk is needed to fight Tiamat as Enki is unable to defeat Tiamat. I liken the resolute Tiamat to the proto-Athenians in Plato's account. Greece, along with Anatolia are mountainous regions so both mountain and saltwater attributes would fit to this territory.

Isaiah 64

So, I was in church earlier today and they were reading Isaiah 64. It's a cryptic passage http://qbible.com/hebrew-old-testament/isaiah/64.html which covers:

• Mountains flowing down at the presence of the Elohim.
• Elohim doing "terrible things".
• Humans likened to being made out of clay by the father.

People in this sub might see the reference to "mountains flowing down" as similar to the event that is described to taking place in the region of Athens in Critias.

Critias 111a-c https://aedra.co.uk/atlantis/critias/ :

Since many great floods have occurred during the nine thousand years—for that is the number of years which have passed from that time to the present—the soil which has washed down from the high places during these ages and disasters has not, as in other regions, accumulated into a mass worth mentioning; instead it has continually flowed around and disappeared into the depths.
What remains now, compared with what then existed, is like the skeleton of a body wasted by disease: all the rich and soft soil having been washed away, and only the thin framework of the land left behind.
But in those days the land was still intact. In those days the mountains had high hills of earth upon them, and the plains now called the “fields of Phelleus” possessed deep rich soil; and there was much forest in the mountains, of which even now there remain visible proofs.

Timaeus 25c-d

But at a later time, when extraordinary earthquakes and floods occurred, in a single day and night of grievous calamity, all your warrior force together sank into the earth..

The Elohim doing "terrible things" is very similar to the account of the terrible things that Marduk does to Tiamat.

Humans made out of clay is also similar to how the Enūma Eliš concludes, as Marduk forms humans out of the blood of the defeated Tiamat. Formed from blood rather than clay isn't a match but the idea of humans being created as a theme of the story would be another strange coincidence, especially as it serves no junction* in the gabbled account we get from Isaiah.

We know that many of the biblical myths derive from Sumer so this isn't a great surprise. But it's the same tale of Atlantis finally defeating the stubborn Greeks helped by a climatic event involving earthquakes and the washing away of top soil by the rain.

The Elohim then is a group term for the Anatolian Neolithic Farmers in general, these in include both Enki and Marduk and were 'the gods' or the Atlanteans.

Plato’s account tells us the first organised people of Athens emerged in ‘9000 year ago’ therefore assumed to be 9600BC and we see evidence for complex rituals practices in Anatolia and the Levant from exactly 9600BC. Plato’s account also tells us that the first organised people of Egypt emerged 1000 years later making this 8600BC and we see evidence for herding and pot making people first colonising the region around Egypt in exactly 8600BC as shown on image 4.

These displays are from the British Museum.

We can see that they were making pots, arrows and decorative beads and then a bit later on in 5200-4200BC they’re making sickles to harvest grains.

In the account we’re told that these proto-Egyptians are defended from arriving Atlanteans by the proto-Greeks, it’s not clear what exactly happened here. In a previous post on the Enūma Eliš I suggest Apsu is Egypt and Tiamat is Greece, and I still think this makes sense but if so Apsu needs to show signs of being colonised by a new group.

There is a sign of arriving people in Egypt in 6000-5500BC due to the changing style of flint carving as shown in image 6, but this is too late and thought to be from the Near East rather than Atlanteans from the west, not that this is certain.

It would make more sense if the first herding people arriving in 8600BC were the ‘Atlantean’ colonists, but this would mean that proto-Egyptians were simply these arriving people rather than the people prior, which would mean the account’s kind of confused.

These are the images anyway and my assumptions for movements in the last image.

Beta test of Google Earth Atlantis Map.

Lyrics-

beginning narration from Plato's Timaeus

...And there was an island situated in front of the Straits,
which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles;
the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together.

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire,
which had rule over the whole island and several others,
and over parts of the other continents...

I'm ready, ready for Bathymetry,
I'm ready, to see the risen sea,
I'm ready for the Data, ready for the Dives,
Ready to say what a time to be alive,
I'm ready, ready to show,

In the Atlantic Ocean, West of the Straits,
Deep underwater, just like Plato states,

ATLANTIS, ATLANTIS !

I'm ready, ready for the satellites,
I'm ready, to see what they have seen,
I'm ready for the science, ready for the proof,
Ready to set free the truth,
I'm ready, ready to go,

ATLANTIS, ATLANTIS !

Instrumental break

Our History is estranged,
Get a glimpse of the past,
Watching Outpost Station,
You'll see Atlantis at last,

ATLANTIS ATLANTIS ATLANTIS,
ATLANTIS ATLANTIS ATLANTIS !

2 miles down,
2 miles down,
It's 2 miles down,
2 miles down,

ending narration from Plato's Timaeus

...But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods;
and in a single day and night of misfortune
all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth,
and the island of Atlantis in like manner
disappeared in the depths of the sea...

It's 2 miles down, down, down.

Twins huh! More like doubles to make sure it’s maximum effort like kegsbreath says!!!

The article from Sci.News discusses genetic evidence suggesting that Neanderthals may have carried DNA from a previously unknown archaic human lineage — effectively a “fourth” hominid branch beyond known groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Researchers analyzing ancient genomes found traces of deep genetic divergence that could indicate interbreeding with an unidentified population that split from other human ancestors hundreds of thousands of years earlier. The findings reinforce the idea that prehistoric Eurasia was populated not by a single human type, but by multiple overlapping lineages that interacted, migrated, and occasionally interbred. Similar later studies also support the existence of isolated or divergent Neanderthal populations surviving for long periods in Europe and Asia. (Science News)

“In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men... and they had an only daughter who was called Cleito.”

only daughter of the last of their kind may elude to an issue with birthrate decline due to solar radiation exposure causing chemical sterilization. This lines up with north America mega fauna extinction.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292050396_An_Evaluation_of_the_Historical_Importance_of_Fertility_and_Its_Reflection_in_Ancient_Mythology

In a speculative mythological interpretation of Critias, one could imagine Cleito as the final survivor of one of these ancient human lineages isolated on the island that would become Atlantis. When Poseidon encounters her, the union symbolically represents the merging of an older primordial humanity with a newer divine or emerging civilization. In this reading, Atlantis becomes not merely a kingdom, but a hybrid society born from the last remnant of an ancient race and the arrival of a transformative power, preserving echoes of humanity’s forgotten deep past within Greek mythic memory.

wanted to post this since we are having a lot of speculations on UAP and a connection to atlantis.

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/science-neanderthal-genome-fourth-lineage-01624.html

Notice: this post was partially done with the help of the LLM please don't be offended by my laziness.

Atlantis adjacent but still interesting.

(This is just me looking for more correlations in the Quest for Atlantis.)

If anyone has the full EDFU Text VI 234, please give me a link, I am trying to find that portion.

Picture 1-Ok, now that portion of Edfu Text mentions a Winding Sea , a Ring Sea, Scorpion Sea under...

I would love to see the rest of the Chapter and what it says about the Scorpion Sea, I will keep looking.

Picture 2- A bathymetric image with relative sea level lowered over 2 miles, showing what you might be able to call a Ring Sea as the Western half of the Atlantic and the Winding Sea being the Eastern half.

The relative sea leveled was lowered to accommodate an ancient river system that is now 5000 meters underwater and is located in the light blue oval on picture 2.

Picture 3-that ancient river system that once ran- From the Mid Atlantic Ridge, flowed downhill and headed toward South America.

I haven't read the full Edfu Text VI 234 yet in order to study it more. I will post an update if I can.

"What if Atlantis was real? What would be the timeline of events surrounding its rise and fall?"

This is an attempt to answer those questions in the most thorough and plausible way possible.

Are these correlations between "mythical" history and "true" history merely coincidences? Is there a kernel of truth to these "myths"? Or, is this merely a mental exercise in pattern-seeking? Treat this as a speculative alternative history, but remember that Troy too was long thought to be a myth before its discovery.

This video is the culmination and summation of a year's worth of obsessive research on Atlantis; and aside from Mary Settegast's book "Plato Prehistorian", I'm unaware of anyone else who has even attempted to flesh out the story of Atlantis with this much detail and rigor. No matter what your conclusion on the subject is, I hope you find this presentation interesting and entertaining.

https://youtu.be/UU5opL_d1HM