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November 27, 2001 :: "Lucy? Jou got some ‘splainin’ to do!"
It seems that Atlantis may have been discovered ... of the coast of Cuba. An enormous stone city complete with manmade pyramids, roads and buildings has been discovered 2,200 feet off the coast of Havana.
Advanced Digital Communications, a Canadian deepsea reasearch company, has taken sonar images, as well as video, of a massive plateau under the sea that appears to be remains of a once-thriving civilization. Experts are trying to decypher the pictographs found in some areas which resemble early Minoan letterforms.
How cool! I wish they'd circulate some pictures, though. I'd love to see what they're talking about. Then again, what may be "manmade large-size architectural designs partly covered by sand" to them would probably be Rorschach blobs to me. Pauline: "It's RIGHT THERE! See it?!! It's so obvious! Arrgh!" Me: "Umm, yeah, I see it. No, really." I imagine it'd be like trying to explain to Julien that that blurry LIGHT gray blob in the middle of the DARK gray blobs on the ultrasound printout is the baby in mommy's belly.
Ah, pseudo-archaeology at its best... This has some interesting moments, but the quality of the report is just what I'd expect from a pseudoarchaeologist.
Poor Darren. You’re so so misguided. It’s one of the ant farms placed here by the Greys when they created us for amusement. Didn’t you read Chariots of the Hedgehogs? Duh!
Don't get me started on the conspiracy of TheraFlu, from the island of Thera!
Ah! No! Don't bring Erich von Daaniken into this... please!!! :)
The author is the "science editor" for the Art Bell show. That said, ADC may have found "something." See here for more info:
Hey, Art was right about the Hale-Bopp comet heralding the destruction of human civilization, right? Give the guy a little credit. Geez.
There is also an underwater city off the coast of Japan that was discovered not long ago. It’s one of the largest of the sunken cities ever found. The photographs are amazing.
Also, Darren, are you pretending to be me up there? My name on your URL? ;^p
doh! No, just had a brainless moment.
Hey that's what auto-fill is for. I am recoding the entire site soon so I may go to a different comments system.
Photos!...I want photos! Sounds very interesting.
Laurie, you need a medal for snagging that URL. Twitterpated is one of the best words in the English language IMHO.
According to BBC News over the last few months, Atlantis is obviously near Gibraltar (I love the tone of that one) or possibly Cornwall or Bolivia.
eldan - keep in mind that these are not "true" archaeologists. ;) See Chris' post above about the author and her connection to Art Bell. :)
Cornwall and Bolivia. The sister cities. Now it’s all coming together.
He said. She said. There’s 16 Comments
michaelbrown :: 27 November, 2001 11:48 AM
This is most likely a lost MesoAmerican society, rather than Atlantis (which has shifted locations more often than a bored nomad).
The author jumps to conclusions, linking extremely simple shapes & characters to Western European societies (the example of the American Cross -- two ovals crossing each other is an extremely basic drawing... to claim it came from the Minoans is, well, a ludicrous claim at best).
One of the most offensive parts of this article, from an archaeological point of view is Frank Joseph's statement, "Where did they [the Etruscans] get written language? It's possible that what we're looking at in Etruscan is a variation of the Atlantean language."
Is it not possible that they were smart enough to develop it on their own? The Egyptians did; so did the Mayan. Not to mention the Chinese, who developed written language over 4000 years ago. Arguments like this devalue the worth of the society they're used against; it's like saying there must have been aliens in Egypt, because how could they possibly have built those huge pyramids on their own?
Darren :: 27 November, 2001 12:51 PM
Davezilla :: 27 November, 2001 01:03 PM
Jon :: 27 November, 2001 01:34 PM
Davezilla :: 27 November, 2001 02:52 PM
http://www.vancourier.com/06201-1/opinion/06201-1O2.html
An excerpt:
What got Bell and his listeners entranced was Zelitsky’s further revelation that ADC’s underwater sonar equipment may have found a lost city deep in the waters off Cuba’s west coast. According to the Reuters story, Zelitsky and her colleagues discovered a huge land plateau about 2,200 feet down dotted with what they think are pyramids, roads and buildings. "[T]here are clear manmade large-size architectural designs," Zelitsky is quoted as saying. No videotaped evidence of the landscape has yet been produced, but Zelitsky said the city appeared to be "built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan."
For Bell and his science reporter (and animal mutilation conspiracy theorist) Linda J. Moulton who followed up on the story, an underwater city in the Caribbean can mean only one thing: Atlantis. The Reuters story didn’t go anywhere near the A-word, but Bell and Moulton ate up that angle anyway. The Atlantis story is a key ingredient for people who believe in a universe in which the Giza pyramids, structures on Mars and Roswell are more important facts than say, unemployment rates. Finding Atlantis would go a long way to proving that their fetish for the weird wasn’t a waste.
The weirdness comes home. ADC is described by Reuters as a British Columbia-based company." Where in B.C. was not specified, and neither Moulton nor my own probings have turned up phone or office numbers for Zelitsky or ADC anywhere in the province. (Weird, indeed.) However, organizations from the U.S. National Geographic Society to the Cuban government have confirmed that these people and the project do indeed exist. And hey, they’re on Art Bell’s show, so it must be true.
Chris :: 27 November, 2001 03:16 PM
Phineas :: 27 November, 2001 04:07 PM
Davezilla :: 27 November, 2001 04:11 PM
Davezilla :: 27 November, 2001 04:12 PM
Go install cookies on this thing already, so I don't have to think when entering comments! ;)
(feel free to grab the source from my site.. it works great cross-browser)
Darren :: 27 November, 2001 07:47 PM
Davezilla :: 27 November, 2001 09:30 PM
Sssshhhh...do not tell anyone, but, my major in college was archeology (yeah, take that degree to the bank).
Laurie :: 28 November, 2001 01:29 AM
If you mean photos to the Japanese city, click on this link. It has two pages of decent color photos. They show divers on the steps and it gives you a fair idea of scale.
Davezilla :: 28 November, 2001 06:45 AM
Strange how the possibility never seems to occur to archaeologists that they are finding genuine sunken civilisations but not Atlantis....
eldan :: 28 November, 2001 12:55 PM
darren :: 28 November, 2001 02:39 PM
Davezilla :: 28 November, 2001 04:00 PM
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