Atlantis Fact Or Fiction Essay Research Paper

Atlantis: Fact Or Fiction Essay, Research Paper

Atlantis: Fact or Fiction.

Lee Kirkpatrick

February 5,1999

Outline

Thesis Statement: Many world renowned historical philosophers, explorers, and

premonitionists have made many credible theories about the lost continent which have

historical documentation to make them believable.

I.Introduction

II.Discoveries World Wide

III.Plato.s Account

IV.Atlantis and the Earth.s Shifting Crust

V.Edgar Cayce

VI.Mount Krakatoa

VII.Crystal Powers

A.Atlantean Culture

B.Crystal and its Destruction

VIII.Atlantis in Religion

IV.Conclusion

Lee Kirkpatrick

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Mrs. Ferguson

February 5, 1999

Atlantis: Fact or Fiction.

Do you believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. Or do you believe that it is merely

a .fairy tale. for a misrepresentation in history. Many of these .glitches. in history have

been exploited as absurd accounts of a lost continent once destroyed. However, many

world renowned historical philosophers, explorers, and premonitionists have made many

credible theories about the lost continent which have historical documentation to make

them believable.

Discoveries World Wide

.This is probably the greatest discovery in World History. was stated by Maxine

Asher, the co-director of a scientific expedition that found a city on the bottom of the

Atlantic Ocean off Spain (Oman). Many other scientists and explorers have found

evidence of a former continent that once existed, but today can not be accounted for.

A huge eleven room pyramid found 10,000 feet under water in the mid Atlantic Ocean

with a huge crystal top was reported by Tony Benik. A sunken city about 400 miles off

Portugal was found by Soviet expeditions led by Boris Asturua, with buildings made of

extremely strong concrete and plastics. Strangely enough Boris said the .the remains of

streets suggests the use of monorails for transportation.. Hundreds more of strange

discoveries of objects on the ocean floors have been reported, but most historians still

conclude that Atlantis is just a myth (Oman).

Plato.s Accounts

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote two works, the Timelaus and Critias

referring to the lost continent of Atlantis (Santos). Plato acquired the record of Atlantis

form his ancestor Solon. Plato describes Atlantis as, . larger than Libya and Asia

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combined; from it there was passage for the sea-farers of those trying to reach other

islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be

called the ocean. For these regions lie within the strait……..seem to be but a bay having a

narrow entrance; but the other ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely

surrounds it may with fullest truth and fitness be named continent.. The Libya and Asia

Plato refers to is roughly about the size of the contiguous United States. Plato therefore

thought that Atlantis was even larger than Asia and Libya. He also refers to Atlantis being

near the .bay having a narrow entrance.. Today this is known as the Strait of Gibraltar,

the opening to the Mediterranean Sea. Plato thought that the lost continent was

somewhere just west of the Strait of Gibraltar. Plato also described the continent of

Atlantis as being a very mountainous continent, high above the sea level, and being very

green and plentiful to its inhabitants (Flem-Ath).

Because Plato was a Greek philosopher, he believed in the Gods of Olympus. The

most important god of the Greeks was Zeus. Apparently, according to Plato, the

inhabitants angered Zeus in some manner. Possibly due to the corruption that the

Atlantean society had acquired. Plato wrote that the waters of the sea rose up and

.swallowed. the mass whole. Plato estimated the destruction of Atlantis around 9600 b.c.

(Santos)

Atlantis and the Earth.s Shifting Crust

Rand Flem-Ath highly believes in Plato.s Critias and Timaleus. Flem-Ath

however, feels Plato.s view of Atlantis is only a .sliver of the truth.. Rand Flem-Ath

believes that the lost continent of Atlantis is actually the frozen continent of Antarctica.

While this theory may appear to be absurd, Flem-Ath.s knowledge of history creates avid

proof that this could be true. Plato described Atlantis as a continent high above sea level,

and this is true about the continent of Antarctica. In fact, Antarctica has an average

elevation of six thousand, five hundred feet. This is well over twice as high as any other

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continent. Flem-Ath discovered a map from an ancient Egyptian which was republished in

1665 by Athanasius Kircher. The map included a continent located in the Atlantic Ocean

directly between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Americas. The continent was labeled

Atlantis, and the map was inscribed with a Latin message.

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