Last Updated: Monday, 15 August 2005, 13:47 GMT 14:47 UK
Tsunami clue to 'Atlantis' found
A submerged island that could be the source of the Atlantis myth was hit by a large earthquake and tsunami 12,000 years ago, a geologist has discovered.
Spartel Island now lies 60m under the sea in the Straits of Gibraltar, but some think it once lay above water.

"It just won't go away" <_<

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There are, however, no signs of man-made structures. Islands are formed and sink all the time, this one is no different.

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"Critical thinking and skepticism form the cornerstone of intelligence."
-me

That's true, zrice03 ... but I find it interesting (and a little amusing) that these announcements do occasionally turn up in science - not everything is dismissed out of hand, no matter how wildly improbable it might be ... there was another report (less than a year back when I tripped over it) that structures resembling Plato's description of Atlantis were found in a coastal region of southern Spain ... so it may be that the myth (which was recorded long after the events described, if they happened at all) is a combination of different oral histories ... an island in the Atlantic that sank 12,000 years ago; a city swamped by the sea in a single catastrophe; the extinction of a great culture (eg, the Minoans) under similar circumstances... to produce an epic disaster worthy of Hollywood...

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