Atlantis is often described as paranormal or mythical, but is it really? In two of Plato's great works, the Timaeus and the Critias, Plato depicts an Athenian civilisation in diaglogue between Critias, Socrates, Timaeus and Hermocrates. (Predating Plato by 9,000 years, or 9,600 BC) Atlantis, according to Critias, was a great Athenian metropolis which, by the manus of mankind, met with cataclysmic destruction. By his (Solon) grandfather's education, Critias retold the story of an Athenian civiliation. Critias claimed that Statesman (not only his grandfather, but a Grecian traveller and historiographer from Egypt), stayed and interconnected with great Egyptian priests. The recordings from Statesman were then given to Plato by Critias. Because Plato's plant are considered historical fact, one can only presume that Atlantis DID indeed exist.

According to Plato's historical literature, Atlantis was an organized , monolithic military state that at the end of its realm, met with great, natural catastrophe during the planning phases on an assault on Egypt.

Agriculturally, the Athenian state was well educated and able to make herbal redresses from plants. Their irrigational accomplishments were very advanced, as they constructed muliple canals to irrigate their fields and farmlands. Due to their superior intelligence, reservoirs and edifices like the City were constructed, hydraulically-engineered machines and Bridges were built, literary pieces and Pentateuch were written; and most often, their physical objects were coated with bronze, Cu or gold.

Based on a monarchy and systemized class, the Atlantis civilisation also held a valuable position for women. Historically thought to be the top of all nations, Atlantis ruled all encompassing land with their emperiorical laws.

Apart from being an advanced civilization, Atlantis (according to Plato), was a massively-sized continent. By Critias' measurements, Atlantis would have got been about 3,400 x 2,300 statute miles in size - this is bigger than some, major Oceanic basins. Critias business relationships that Egyptian priests told of Atlantis being located beyond the Pillars of Heracles (the Strait of Gibraltar); this, where the Atlanic Ocean and the Mediteranian Sea intercede 1 another. Today, some grounds have been provided that denote submerged walls and roads, and a set of islands resembling the form of Atlantis in the Caribbean Sea Sea. Another possible theory would be that Atlantis could possibly remainder on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, (a beneath-ground mountain range); while some research workers believe that Atlantis could be in the Azores, Kriti or the Fink Islands.

Unfortunately, (according to the Egyptian priests), Atlantis was continually pounded by ruinous temblors and inundations until one twenty-four hours when the whole continent sunk beneath the sea and disappeared. They were also quoted as saying that where Atlantis vanished, became an country in the ocean that was impassable and undiscoverable. The theory behind the sinking of Atlantis was that world had go so corrupt, that by their ain hands, created their ain demise.

In closing, Atlantis conveys to mind the biblical narratives of Sodom and Noah. It also interrelates with the continental displacements throughout the ages of the earth's history, but could Atlantis really have got existed? The evidence, whether circumstantial or philosophical literature, the fact stays that Plato only wrote historical truth. This beingness said, what message was Plato trying to impart to the hereafter of mankind? To the reader, I reason this article with a citation from Critias, from the literature of Plato, "There have got got been, and will be again, many devastations of world arising out of many causes; the top have been brought about by the federal agencies of fire and water, and other lesser 1s by countless other causes." A idea to ponder.

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