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The Search for Atlantis: Lost City Found Off the Coast of Spain?
TLDR Archaeologists have discovered a lost city that may have inspired the legend of Atlantis, with similarities to Plato's description of a hubristic city sunk by an earthquake and tsunami. The city of Heliki, submerged in 373 BC, has revealed settlements from the Bronze Age and possibly even a prehistoric Neolithic civilization, fueling the ongoing search for Atlantis.
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Archaeologists have found a lost city that may have been the model for the Atlantis legend.
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Plato used real places and events but added literary license, and it's possible that he did the same with Atlantis, which was described as a hubristic city that was sunk by an earthquake and tsunami, and there are legitimate archaeologists currently looking for it off the coast of Spain.
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Edgar Cayce believed that Atlantis stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Spain and that the Bermuda Triangle was connected to Atlantis, but legitimate archaeologists are still searching for something that inspired Plato, such as the ancient Greek city of Heliki.
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The city of Heliki, which was the center of the Achaean League and had similarities to Atlantis, was submerged in an earthquake and wave in 373 BC, with no survivors and only the tops of trees and the statue of Poseidon visible.
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The city of Heliki was well-documented and had ideal conditions for settlement, but was destroyed by earthquakes and tsunamis, eventually becoming submerged and covered by silt from three rivers.
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Beneath the Byzantine and Roman ruins of Heliki, archaeologists have discovered settlements from the Bronze Age and possibly even a prehistoric Neolithic civilization, supporting the idea that there could be lost underwater cities like Atlantis.
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In the late 80s, Cornell professors started looking for Atlantis and discovered the first Roman city, ruins, buildings, industrial buildings, kilns, looms, intersecting streets, coins, jugs, and more from the Bronze Age, suggesting the existence of a lost city.
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Archaeologists have been excavating multiple lost cities since the late 80s, and as long as they don't intersect, they should be able to uncover everything, but this doesn't mean that the search for Atlantis has stopped.
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