The Real Atlantis-In the Eye of the Sahara (The Weird Ancient History Series)

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The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, and not just a legend invented by Plato, didn’t surface until the late 19th century. In his 1882 book, Atlantis, the Antediluvian World, the writer Ignatius Donnelly argued the accomplishments of the ancient world (such as metallurgy, language and agriculture) must have been handed down by an earlier advanced civilization, as the ancients weren’t sophisticated enough to develop these advances on their own. The geographic distribution of Acheulean tools – and thus the peoples who made them – is often interpreted as being the result of palaeo-climatic and ecological factors, such as glaciation and the desertification of the Sahara Desert. Novella, Stephen (19 November 2018). "No – Atlantis Has Not Been Discovered in North Africa". NeuroLogica . Retrieved 8 November 2023. Communications and Publishing (2013, March 3). EarthView–Eye of the Sahara. USGS. https://www.usgs.gov/news/science-snippet/earthview-eye-sahara. Richard-Molard, J. (1948). The Richât Buttonhole in Mauritanian Adrar. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, 227, 142-143.

What is the Richat structure or eye of the Sahara? What is it made of, and how did it form? Can you tour the area to see it? Is it the lost city of Atlantis? Get answers to all these questions and a lot more. Facts in brief And it isn’t just a case of analogies, majority of ancient stories when comparing retellings to written accounts are astonishingly accurate over millennia. Wagner also puts forward some other interesting claims, including that many elephant bones have been found near the Eye, in line with Plato’s report of an abundance of elephants, and many other animals, on Atlantis (we at Earthly Mission could not find any traces of that evidence online), or that fresh water flowed from the center island of Atlantis, which also exists in the center circle of the Richat Structure (evidence is also hardly available in this regard).Acheulean tools were produced during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Europe, first developed about 1.76 million years ago and derived from the more primitive Oldowan technology associated with Homo habilis. In his work Critias, Plato wrote, “This tale of Atlantis, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon who was the wisest of the Seven Sages.” If you’re not familiar with the myth of Atlantis, let me explain: The greek god Poseidon had five sets of twins. He then gave them ten kingdoms to rule over, one for each, but the entirety of the empire was ruled by Atlas, his oldest son. Atlantis (which literally means the city of Atlas) was a very powerful empire with a fierce navy and plenty of gold, but it disappeared beneath the ocean in one night and has never been seen since. Now, most people wouldn’t buy the stuff about Poseidon, but the possibility of there being an empire called Atlantis is perfectly plausible. Something important to note is that the city of Troy was believed to only be a myth until it was found in Turkey, as was Dwarka until it was discovered in the ocean. The point is, a city cannot be considered mythical because we haven’t found it. Nevertheless, there have been countless locations proposed over history for the lost city of Atlantis, including in or near the Mediterranean Sea (Sardinia, Crete, Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, and Malta have all been considered as possible locations) or in the Atlantic Ocean (the Canary Islands and Madeira Islands are such examples). Atlantis is a story as old as time itself, however, the origins are not often discussed. Though sensationalized to be this lost sunken island by cinema and works of fiction, the first Western mention of this civilization was from the renowned Greek philosopher, Plato. In his unfinished book, Timaeus , the philosopher attempted to describe the world around him and how it came to be. Since I am not fluent in ancient Greek, I will reference a translation by W.R.M. Lamb transcribed in 1925 for the account. Plato reported that elephants, and many other animals, were abundant on Atlantis — many elephant bones have been found near the Eye.

alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water…the part about the city was all a smooth plain, enclosing it round about, and being itself encircled by mountains ... [the plain] faced towards the South and was sheltered from the Northern blasts [by the mountains]." Oral story telling is not even one tenth as unreliable as people assume with the false analogy of the game of telephone. Search ‘Richat Structure Eye of Africa’ on YouTube and you are immediately served a nice long list of videos that offer ‘proof’ and ‘evidence’ that this place is indeed the location of the lost city of Atlantis, just as it was described by Plato. The Iberomaurusians (people of Atlantes) may have fought the Sebilians and Harifians (people of Egypt) around 9,000 BC. Plato dates the war to 9,000 years before Solon (640-558BC), that’s around 11,000 years ago. Numerous, concordant radiocarbon dating indicates that the bulk of the sediments had accumulated at the Richat Structure between 15,000 and 8,000 BC. Interestingly, the meteor impact in Greenlandthat might well have spurred the earthquakes and floods may be as young as 12,000 years. All this dating aligns with Plato’s story. 10. There’s evidence of a flood Meado, A. (2011). Richat Structure . NASA. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92071/richat-structuretwo springs of water from beneath the earth, one of warm water and the other of cold, and making every variety of food to spring up abundantly from the soil." The topography surrounding the Richat Structure supports the notion that Africa had suffered a gigantic flood. In satellite images, it looks as if something literally swept over the entire area towards the sea. The gravelly deposits include slope scree, debris flow and fluviatile, or even torrential flow, deposits, supporting Plato’s description that the area was flooded "within a single day and a night." 11. The Eye of Osiris a b c Abdeina, El Houssein; Bazin, Sara; Chazot, Gilles; Bertrand, Hervé; Le Gall, Bernard; Youbi, Nasrrddine; Sabar, Mohamed Salem; Bensalah, Mohamed Khalil; Boumehdi, Moulay Ahmed (3 November 2021). "Geophysical modelling of the deep structure of the Richat magmatic intrusion (northern Mauritania): insights into its kinematics of emplacement". Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 14 (22): 2315. doi: 10.1007/s12517-021-08734-4. ISSN 1866-7538. S2CID 241620488.