The Real Atlantis-In the Eye of the Sahara (The Weird Ancient History Series)

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And to all of them he gave names, giving to him that was eldest and king the name after which the whole island was called and the sea spoken of as the Atlantic, because the first king who then reigned had the name of Atlas." This again is a fatal flaw in Jimmy’s theory. The many problems with his logic and alleged evidence are things that could be worked out if he actually interfaced with professionals and experts who know what they are doing. But cranks like Jimmy don’t do that. They prefer to pontificate from the sidelines of scholarship, make massive claims with zero evidence, and in today’s age, make YouTube videos to convince the poorly informed.

All this also ignored Plato’s description that the city was wiped out by an earthquake, in a single day, and sank into the Atlantic.Wagner also puts forward some other interesting claims, including that many elephant bones have been found near the Eye, in line with Plato’s report of an abundance of elephants, and many other animals, on Atlantis (we at Earthly Mission could not find any traces of that evidence online), or that fresh water flowed from the center island of Atlantis, which also exists in the center circle of the Richat Structure (evidence is also hardly available in this regard). As you can see from this photo above, there is evidence that there were once rivers running through the mountains that are north of the structure. Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, first developed about 1.76 million years ago and derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo habilis.

The circular isle of Atlantis was described to have a diameter of 127 Stadia. 1 Stadia = 607 feet. When you multiply 127 x 607, the result is 77,089 ft. This is equivalent to around 14.6 miles – the diameter of the Eye. More Similarities Between Atlantis and the Eye of the Sahara You might be wondering, is this a joke? The Sahara is, unsurprisingly, a desert which would make the theory of a flood rather silly. However, when taking into account our generation’s favorite issue, climate change, the idea of the Richat Structure being the graveyard of Atlantis is an actual possibility. What a lot of people forget is that the story of Atlantis is actually a war story where Athens defeats Atlantis. Hübner plugged in the clues—essentially it was like a game of Battleship, [in which] whatever area had the most pegs sinks the battleship, or in this case discovers Atlantis. He theorizes that Atlantis was a little bit south of Casablanca in modern Morocco.

Everybody knows the name Atlantis — the story of a civilization lost to time — sunken beneath the waves. Personally, the first thought that comes to mind when thinking of Atlantis would be an island somewhere in the Atlantic, probably now home to a couple of fish. This concept of Atlantis seems so far-fetched that it’s easy to write off as just a story. However, what if I told you our government already knows the whereabouts of Atlantis? What if it’s not as lost as we think? Well, recent scientific discoveries continue to deepen our understanding of geographic history which, in turn, helps construct an argument for the reality of Atlantis. Before adding one last pseudo-scientific piece of evidence to this argument it is important to note a quote from the great Travis Scott, “Seeing is believing”. I would largely agree with that sentiment. If there was such an event that happened, I would expect some sort of evidence I could physically see instead of relying on some old man’s book. However, using NASA’s WorldView imagery over the Sahara, you could make out striations that are consistent with erosions that cut across the region ( Figure 3 ). These erosion patterns are also consistent with the topographical map of the Sahara, following the regions with the lowest elevation.

Hydrothermal fluids formed from the magma chamber and rose through the dome’s fractured and permeable middle part, dissolving limestone and causing hydrothermal karst-collapse megabreccia. Jimmy claims that an event that lasted 1,200 years “precisely” matched an event that was supposed to have happened in one day 100 years after the Younger Dryas ended. Also – there is no reason to think that the Younger Dryas affected the equatorial regions (the Richat structure is at 21 deg latitude). So really, it was in the wrong place and the wrong time for the Younger Dryas to be significant. This is a forced fit that is not compelling at all, but Jimmy thinks it is too amazing a coincidence not to be evidence. The location of the Eye (Athens and Egypt): The Richat Structure is geographically well related to places associated with Plato’s Atlantis. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the north of Africa, and the Atlantean navy is said to have besieged ancient Athens on its shores. Over in north-east Africa lies Egypt, from where Plato apparently received his information (via Solon) about Atlantis. It has also been suggested that Egypt used to be a colony of Atlantis. Thus far, it’s all looking promising.He further says that the dating of the death of Atlantis from 11,600 years ago “precisely” matches the date of the Younger Dryas, which was a climactic event which took place between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago. This event was a temporary return to glacial condition, with decreased average temperatures in the northern hemisphere. It primarily affected the norther latitudes, and North America more intensely.

The confrontation is intriguing and raises many issues of which the most basic is the simple question: why has the story of Atlantis – compared with other ancient myths – maintained its popularity for so long? What is the essential attraction of the tale? Robertson, E. (2014, July 7). Eye of the Sahara. EGU Blogs. https://blogs.egu.eu/network/bar/tag/eye-of-the-sahara/ The proper analogy would be a group of professors teaching a limited selection of top students to replace them where the metric is their ability to recite and memorize accurate information and where the best memorizers get chosen as new priests/elders who still have the benefit of their precessors correcting them. More recently, in a viral, and rather convincing (at least for many), video published in September 2018, the YouTube channel Bright Insight claimed that the features of the Richat Structure, otherwise known as the Eye of the Sahara, perfectly match Plato’s description of Atlantis. And, as for the opening to the ocean, Novela points out that the sand drift to the southwest Bright Insight refers to is actually more to west than south, as the YouTube channel claims. It also doesn’t open up to the ocean, which is to the west.The Richat structure was first described as a Richât crater or buttonhole in the 1930s-1940s, with Richard-Molard (1948) concluding its formation was due to a laccolithic uplift. The discovery of Aouelloul, Temimichat-Ghallaman, and Tenoumer impact craters during the 1952 geological expedition in Mauritania led to the conclusion that the Richat structure formed from a meteor impact.