Cyprus Cyprus is Atlantis, says American researcher

PhanosP · member

Hi guys. Does anybody of you knows anything about the interview which was to air on CNN World Report sometime before Octomber 11th? Does anybody knows if the interview is downlodable anywhere on the net?

Thanks

PhanosP

dj606 · member

Panos

There is a new update and pictures (the 2nd set) with a third high res set being released soon. They have confirmed that it is man made, not a mistake.

enjoy

http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com
dj

PhanosP · member

Thanks di606,

I have just seen it. Smile

PhanosP · member

Ok guys.

I just watch the news here in Cyprus and Robert Sarmast said that he has found true evidence that Atlantis is here. He said he would make some maps from the new data by tomorrow. He seem very exciting about it. He said that he eventully found the proof he needed. Smile

It · member

dj606 · member

A glimpse of Atlantis

http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com

It good news

It will be interesting to see high resolution scans

cheers dj

city · instructor

Hi all, I found this on CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html

cheers, city

brother · professor

Lost city of Atlantis found?

Researcher claims ruins are in the Mediterranean

Sunday, November 14, 2004 Posted: 2212 GMT (0612 HKT)

LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) -- An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea. But Cyprus' chief government archaeologist was skeptical.

Robert Sarmast said sonar scanning of the seabed between east Cyprus and Syria revealed man-made walls, one as long as 3 kilometers (2 miles), and trenches at a depth of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards).

"It is a miracle we found these walls as their location, and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings," Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher.

"We have definitely found the Acropolis of Atlantis," he affirmed, adding the site was 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Cyprus.

The chief government archaeologist of Cyprus, Pavlos Flourentzos, reacted with skepticism, telling The Associated Press: "More proof is necessary."

Sarmast, 38, is an architect by training from Los Angeles. He has devoted the past two-and-a-half years to trying to locate the lost city described by Plato in his dialogues, the Timaeous and the Critias. He spoke to reporters on the "Flying Enterprise," his expeditionary ship, after six days of taking highly sophisticated "side scan" sonars of the seabed.

He said he had chosen the area from data provided by two earlier sonar scans of the east Mediterranean by Russian and French expeditions. His own expedition used more sophisticated equipment, he said.

"We found more than 60-70 points that are a perfect match with Plato's detailed description of the general layout of the acropolis hill of Atlantis. The match of the dimensions and the coordinates provided by our sonar with Plato's description are so accurate that, if this is not indeed the acropolis of Atlantis, then this is the world's greatest coincidence," he said.

Tests of that part of the seabed showed it had once been above sea level, he said.

"We cannot yet provide tangible proof in the form of bricks and mortar as the artifacts are still buried under several meters of sediment at a depth of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards), but the evidence is now irrefutable," he added.

Asked if the ruins could not be that of another city that sank beneath the waves, Sarmast said the remains match Plato's description of Atlantis so closely that they could not be anything else.

"If you compare it with Plato, you will be astonished," he said. "We hope that future expeditions will be able to uncover the sediment and bring back physical proof."

Plato wrote of Atlantis as an island in the western sea, which has been widely interpreted to mean the Atlantic Ocean. An earthquake undermined the island and it was submerged. But societies dedicated to finding Atlantis remain.

For its time, Atlantis was a highly civilized nation and in legend it has become associated with utopia. The English philosopher Francis Bacon called his 1627 book on the ideal state The New Atlantis.

Flourentzos said it was possible that Atlantis was near Cyprus.

"The myth of Atlantis has been around for ages and it is generally believed that, if it ever existed, it was somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean -- hence its name. But ancient cities and civilizations in the Mediterranean region, such as the Minoan civilization of Crete, have disappeared as a result of major volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. For all we know, Atlantis may well have existed in our region."

Sarmast said his expedition had cost about $250,000. The funds came from public donations to his US-based company "First Source Enterprise," which is devoted to the project, sales of his book "The Discovery of Atlantis," and the Cypriot Tourist Organization, which donated $60,000.

He said the book, published in September 2003, said Atlantis was in the east Mediterranean and his latest sonars confirmed it.

brother · professor

Next Atlantis mission unlikely before summer
By Jean Christou

A SECOND expedition to continue the search for Atlantis in waters off Cyprus is not likely to happen before summer 2005, American researcher Robert Sarmast has said.

Sarmast said he would be leaving Cyprus on Monday for the launch of the Greek version of his book Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus. He will then be returning to the US, and is unlikely to return to the island before the Spring, he told an audience at a lecture in Limassol this week.

Last month, Sarmast claimed to have “definitely” found Atlantis after sonar scans appeared to have located a rise on the seabed around a mile down in an area halfway between Cyprus and Syria.

He had promised to present his findings on Tuesday, but the visuals were not ready, he said.

Sarmast now needs to raise at least $250,000 to launch a second expedition that will employ submarine technology capable of determining what, if anything, is underneath the sediment, of what he called a “table-top mountain”.

To raise money, he hopes to co-operate on a documentary with one of the six big documentary makers that he says have contacted him.

The American researcher has been challenged by several scientists, who say all he has found are old mud volcanoes.

Michel Morrisseau, a French geologist living on the island, has challenged him to prove his claim, saying the Mediterranean has been under water for the past five million years, which does not tally with Plato’s accounts which places the sinking of Atlantis at around 12,000 years ago.

Morrisseau, who attended the Limassol lecture, again challenged Sarmast.
“This is complete nonsense to any geologist,” said Morrisseau. “We are shocked with the presentation of this data.”
Sarmast responded that if any scientist came forward with a sample taken from the area he believes to be the Acropolis Hill of Atlantis city and proved their theories, he would “go away”.

“They have never taken samples from the area I’m pointing to,” he said. “It’s not a volcano and it’s not a landslide.”

He said that what he had found during his expedition was a “table top mountain”, and two walls three kilometres long, that he believes to be man-made, and matching Plato’s description.

However, Sarmast admitted said he was unlikely to find the remains of any buildings. “It’s a nice dream but it’s not going to happen,” he said. “But in a matter of a few years we are going to put this matter to rest.”

dj606 · member

Hi, here is the latest glimpse of the outer wall.

here is the enlargement

http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/panorama.htm

speaks for itself so far, no landslide to me.

regards
dj