Atlantis Found?

The hunt for the fabled city of Atlantis has occupied treasure hunters and historians for centuries. The story of the city has been imbued with all sorts of myths and legends, but genuine science may have hit upon a city in southern Spain that might, just might, fit Plato’s original description of Atlantis.

The BBC reports:

Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. ... Satellite photos of a salt marsh region known as Marisma de Hinojos near the city of Cadiz show two rectangular structures in the mud and parts of concentric rings that may once have surrounded them.

"Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was surrounded by several circular structures - concentric rings - some consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described," Dr Kuehne told BBC News Online. ... The sizes of the "island" and its rings in the satellite image are slightly larger than those described by Plato.

Dr. Kuehne would like to excavate the site in order to arrive at some sort of date for it and see what artifacts are buried there — that would, obviously, help enormously. Unfortunately, the site is located within a national part, making any archeological dig very difficult. If more evidence is found that this is the origin of Plato’s Atlantis legend, and it turns out to be just a regular ancient site, I wonder if “true believers” an the “fantastic” Atlantis will deny everything and continue looking elsewhere?

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