Re: Atlantis - The Lost Continent
Jeff MacDonald (thejeff@neca.com)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:27:33 GMT
bstudio@mcs.net wrote:
<Much stuff from earlier posts snipped>
>>
>> I have a hard time understanding all this anti Atlantis stuff. The fact is
>> there is plenty of hard evidence that Atlantis, or some superpower, existed
>> earlier than Plato.
>>
>> The Pyramids are one. It's hard to imagine that the first men out of the
>> shell decided to pile up that much stone on just the spur of the moment.
Yes there was a superpower before Plato and you're suggesting right
here what it was. Egypt. Egypt had been a nation and a power (Up and
down and with more or less unity) for thousands of years before
classical Greece. Plenty of time to build pyramids.
>>
>> You have to consider all the archaeological evidence scattered around the
>> Atlantic. In the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico etc. This may not been
>> a single nation but it is evidence of advanced thinking before Plato.
>>
Are you sure that the early American cities and pyramids predate
Plato? I don't have references here, but I seem to recall that most
of the Meso American civilizations were no earlier than the middle of
the first millenium AD.
>> My favorite though, is the Peri Reis map. I have seen a lot of
>misinformation
>> about this map but it is certainly evidence of early existance. I have
>written
>> a piece on this map and it can be found at http://www.mcs.net/~bstudi/
The map I have heard of, but know little about so I can't agrue with
you there. I will check out your page, though.
>> This is one of my favorite subjects.
>>
>> Think Positive
>>
>> Norb
The Jeff
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