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Does the lost city of Atlantis exist, are do you think it was a myth, and do you have any ideas where the lost city of Atlantis ruins could be?

It may exist. As of where. I have no clue.

It does exist somewhere off the Greek coastline. At least that is my best guess.

I have never believed in the lost city of Atlantis, although I am willing to change my opinion if anyone could come up with some substantial proof that it does exist.....

If there was 'proof', it wouldn't be legendary. But IF there is proof, it would in fact be somewhere off the coast of Greece... There is too much about that area, that just screams it..

I don't know maybe it is there somewhere

I believe that it might of exsited but not now, I love to see some of the underground citys or in water citys

The dialogue of Critias (and Timeus) by Plato is the only ancient account written about the city. It has to be decided by the individual if they want to believe it. If you actually can be bothered to read Critias, it certainly does seem that the story of Atlantis is allegorical. If any of you are interested, the library I am building in my journal contains a link to Critias.

I thank it's just made up.

The story of Atlantis is an enigma thats for sure. But as someone has pointed out, there are many civilizations that where mysteriously wiped out but they left behind evidence of their existence.

And as far as I know, if Atlantis did exist and it did become a part of the ocean floor, it would take a long time to find it. Just look how long it took for scientist to find the Titanic! So it would take longer to find a crumbled ruin of a city.

I belive in it. And like many others have said it should be off of Greece somewhere. There is only one story that I know of, written by Plato, about it. I think he says it was off the coast of Greece; It was a landmass that dunk from a tidal wave of some nature. That is, if my memory serves me.

according to greek legends and stories it was beyond the straight of Gibralter... also known as the pillars of hercules... if you are on the greek coast line... looking at the straight then the only place it could be would be in the atlantic a few miles from the straight...

I do believe that Atlantis exists.

I have seen so many people validate that it is real.

I beleive them.

Seems to me that there is very compelling evidence that it could indeed exsist.

A scientist may have discovered the lost city, which is situated of the coast of Gibralter, that is the mouth of the mediterranean sea into the Atlantic ocean, because thosands of years ago the city was drowned by a massive flood, coming from the Atlantic, which seperated parts of Europe from Africa, and this how we have the Meditteranean sea to this day. The ruins are supposed to be at the bottom of the strait of Gibralter.

Yes...and there is even more to that story

Think it exists out there some where.

Myths usuly have a bit of the old good truth in them.

i dont think there is a shred of truth in this myth...

it does exist ...i believe somewhere off greek coast

From what I remember from school some time ago...(okay long time ago) One of my teacher said there was a theory, that the continent of Atlantis might have been located between the Europe+Africa and the Americs, when the continents were very close to one another, then they were hightly intelligent and were also great mathematicians, they would have created a nuclear bomb and bombarded themselve, ending up causing the seperation fo the continent and the similitudes in their culture, also is sank when it was bombarded.

Well, like most great stories of old, I believe it to be myth until someone actually discovers it and presents some truth.

It's always in the last place you look...

I believe, totally...so did edgar cayce

The city of Atlantis will never be found, because over the thousands of years, the sediments would have settled on top of the seabed and the ruins will be pushed further and deeper into the seabed, because new sediment layers pile up on top of old sediments and is pushed further down into the Earth caused by the pressure, so the ruins of Atlantis will be lost forever.

When Atlantis dissapeared, it left the bermuda triangle. Its a long story and hard to explain, but I guess you'd call it a curse.

i believe it exists, it collapsed underwater off the coast of Greece. thats my belief

there is much evidence to suggest that the small island volcano of pico alto might have once been a few thousand feet taller and wit a much larger base area, everything from melting patterns in the ice age, to the spawning patterns of fish in that region, also geologically verifiable patterns that would suggest a great height...that are found below sea level on pico alto...and it is in the right region of the atlantic...with a correspondingly large shelf attached far below sea level that could have been a signifigant island if a few thousand feet were added in height

there was actually a show on the histroy channel that gave many facts as to where atlantis would have been and how it would have been destroyed. through a series of volcaninc eruptions and tsunamis. atlantis was not the only city that was destroyed during that time period, across the bay another city was destroyed as well. so based on the writings of plato and the evidence of the volcanic eruptions in the area off the coast of greece it is possible that it did exsist and sunk into the ocean

It did exist at one point, but will never be found. I know this for sure...I have my own sources...but cannot say who. To many I'm sure would doubt them being considered credible sources. But it was real.

I have to agree with Sandman that in some Myths is a touch of truth since the myth of Atlantis starts in 355 B.C. with the Greek philosopher Plato. But here again you have the same old story of a God getting upset by the people who worship him or her because they become corrupt so the God causes come major earthquake or tidal wave or in the case of Atlantis, people of Atlantis became corrupt and greedy, the gods decided to destroy them. A violent earthquake shook the land, giant waves rolled over the shores, and the island sank into the sea, never to be seen again. I swear this same (not 100% the same but similar) similar story is in the bible… Babylon. God gets pissed, kills people, sinks city or destroys. People all die; God might rethink what he did because now who will worship them. Gods should get some anger management I think.

I believe there was a city that was far advance for its time. I believe something happened naturally within nature to cause the city to sink. I believe the location has been lost due to folklore. I believe humans created the story of Gods destorying the city as a means to control people to be -good- and not bad.

Some Scientists beleive that atlantis was a lost continent and the city was destroyed by natural disaster that happened about 3500 year ago.

Its perfectly possible that Atlantis existed. Over the centuries the continents have shifted so much that it seems reasonable to assume that a coastal city could well have been dislodged and sunk.

Without looking into it more I can't give a more succinct answer, this is just my first opinion.

I totally believe that Atlantis existed . The theory of the Bermuda Triangle is a good possiblity . But I saw a show on scifi last december and they mentioned Cuba that exist now . And said that is all that is left of the place are the high mountains in the back of the Island . Which makes up Cuba now . They do have other theories but I guess we wont know the truth till they actually find the place.

As Sevenn mentioned, the only written account of Atlantis is by Plato, and since I haven't heard anyone clamouring to have found the Cave, why hold on to this story? He wrote in analogies and used stories to illustrate his philosophies, so it does not seem far fetched to believe that even the sole documented account of Atlantis is questionable.

What I find most interesting about the Atlantis story is how easy people believe.

I believe Atlantis existed.. It it not so far fetched that an island that was geographically protected from attack would advance beyond war engaging cultures. Furthermore, I know that an island is vulnerable and likely to encounter natural disasters such a tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes. We have all witness such devastating disasters in our time.. So our ancestors were likely to have experience them in the past... Much like the island of Pompeii

i believe it was real but that it is nothomg but theories and stories now.

People believe because of the history or mystery behind it. If it wasn't mentioned to raise again by E.Cayce, I bet nobody would even have heard of it before.

Atlantis did exist, yes. It is under miles of ice. It was where Antarctica is now.

city of alantis does exist......and right now some ppl are re creating it under water and using it for a cemetary...can't quite remember what part of the world....

It is a beautiful myth that I think comes from one of the small islands sinking into the sea. Do I think it was all that people seem to want to believe; no. These myths are always larger as time goes on, part of it for those of us old folks is "remembering when".

It used to exist, but doesn't anymore.

Atlantis is a great mind blower to me, weather is it real and true at one time... i am not sure. but i think some times it could of been.

I honestly dont kno...it sounds like it could be real..but sumthing tells me its just a myth...i havent really heard or read much about it..but theres sumthing about it that just doesnt seem real to me

there is certainly alot of evidence pointing to the fact that it did exsit

I can't say yes it does or not it doesn't. As some have said there is too much evidence pointing to the fact that it does exhist. But then agan if it exhisted why haven't we found it yet? But then that goes back to the evidence we have found and the fact that we can't cover all the ocean ground in this amount of time. So I'm a believer in it, I wish we would find it to prove to the disbelievers and then maybe they'd open their eyes to even more possibilities.

I believe their was a lost city of atlantis, their have been lots of old cities that have probably never been discovered, and i have no clue where it would be...

Hi MalkavianMime,you are the one person who has stated as such with such conviction..would you mind telling us what your thoughts are behind that?
Is it the city itself,or the super tech part you disagree with..or both?

I think it existed , but they have so many ideas where it is but haven't found any evidence.

The lost city of Atlantis will be at the bottom of the ocean, but this was thousands of years ago, but all the sediments would of build up lots of layers on top of the ruins. The ruins will be pushed further and deeper into the sea floor, by the sediment layers building up on top of each over the thousands of years, and this makes it more differcult to find the remains of Atlantis. Atlantis will be probably lost forever, but take a look at the old Egyptian maps found and published in 1665 by a German Jesuit Preist called Athanasius Kircher. On the map there was a small continent in between gibralter and north america in the mid atlantic ocean, which is called the ridge.

I believe it exists. But I'm not sure where. I heard many talks about it and I believe it exists.

I do believe that Atlantis did exist at one point in time and there has been proof found. I have a link that shows a medallion found that they say is from Atlantis and is unlike anything else that has been found from any other civilization discovered so far.

http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/atlantisproof.htm

Definitely existed.....I'd say it is off the coast of Greece, also.

Im pretty sure sure it is a real place.......

Listen to the folk classic "Atlantis" by Donavan ( the UK's Bob Dylan) and you will know and believe.

I have two thoughts on a location from reading I have done . First is that Atlantis didn't fall into the ocean as thought . It shifted on the Earth's crust and actuallt us under the ice now in what is know to us as Antarctica .
My second theory is that it was on the coast of NW South America where now is Lake Titticaca . It disappeared when the entire land area there rose and the lake rose aboce sea level .
Both of these theories are not the mainstream , but these are my beliefs on the subject .

Plato wrote about it after the execution of his mentor Socrates. Some say he was writing about Greece so his enemy's wouldn't know. Others say the ancient Egyptians also wrote about it. In 1983 they found a lost underground city that they say may have been..there were large pyamids found and in one they found a glass ball said to have powers. Before anyone else could verify it an earthquake destoyed it. Who knows?

kinda hard to tell really,could exist easily enough but hard to say where or when

Does anyone remember Man from Atlantis starring Patrick Duffy of Dallas fame? Maybe he knows!

Its possible that it could have existed . Every single cuture has a similar story about it . Sooooooo something must've existed there . One thing I've learned is never misjudge legends and myths . There is alwasy some truth behind it .

Could Atlantis be the Tower of Babel? the remains of Sodom & Gomorrah? Destroyed by the Flood?

History says that the people that came to America must have been from the lost city.
Though i dont really believe in it. I'd probably change my mind at the first real sign of proof.

i think it's here somewhere ..... and imagine when we do find it.....

There may have been something similar that Plato used for his work, though I believe it's mainly an allegory.

I vaguely remember seeing a thread on this once before.

I do believe in Atlantis and the full existence of that world and culture.

There have been many articles written and documentaries on the History channel that would give me reason to feel this was a reality and much more than just a myth.

The story of Atlantis was given to Plato by an egyptian priest i heard and that story was 9,000 years old by Plato's time, handed down orally around the ancient world until the egyptians finally wrote it down. I've heard the actual city was in the current south pole.

And people once believed that the City of Troy was just a Myth untill one old fuddy duddy decided that he was going to take a walk through Turkey and Find it. With no Archeological background at all.

Therefore there is a very really possibility that the city existed after all there's no smoke without fire, but after all this time what r the chances of ever finding it??

there was three city states.atlantis lemuria and mu.edgar cayce said that the ruins of atlantis would emerge off the coast of bermuda and sure enough some did.so it was in the atlantic.the inhabitants of the canarias belived they where the last people in the world when the porugese discovered them.they said all the world was flooded and they lived on a mountain top.the city at lake titikata is a total mystery.nobody knows who built it.the preist of helioplis told pliny that there was many civilisations which are peroidically destroyed.the mayans date the end of the world as we know it at 2012.the piers prini map shows the south pole with a coast line which was not covered with ice when it was first made and with citys marked.the fourth reich established a proto colony there in the 1930s.the american tried to invade in the early 1950s and where beaten by flying saucers using energy weapons.

Woaah there catseye... less is more buddy...

I definately think it exsisted, anything is possible. Not sure if it would anymore though...

I think that the lost city of atlantis existed, I am not quite sure of where the ruins could be located or if it is actually in ruins at all. Maybe the ruins could be located near Egypt or Greece or some where like that, but then again who is to say that it was once a great empire and is now just a regular country?

it did exist, and may still, if only in the imagination...

Dude yah it totally exists i did a project on it its a city that they decided would be better as a lake so they flooded it wich is why its underwater. i forgot who made the city originally and who destroyed it but..yeh

I believe it existed, but where I haven't the foggiest...

yes I believe it existed, but not sure about all the myths

Plato wrote about it, so it may very well have existed~

the A.R.E. teaches alot about atlantis..the edgar cayce foundation

There are lost cities under the great expanse of ocean and what not we have on earth, maybe not Atlantis but there are cities and ruins there. And the assumption that one is on the coastline of Greece is correct. Also very close to the island on Crete.

why greece..why not off the coast of cali"?

I saw a show about this a while back . And they showed many locations on where it could be and the ones they showed they couldn't find any proof that it was there.
Yes I believe it existed but , to an exact location I guess we will never know.

I believe there was an Atlantis, and that we will rediscover the remnants eventually. After all the remnants of Shang Ri La (sorry about the spelling) was discovered, I believe, in 1998 or 99.

If it is anything like the movie, I want to move there!

what do you guys think about antilla?

I believe it's real just like the merpeople so that would make them Atlantians :P

Does anyone think there's any credibility to it being closer to the Bermuda Triangle - or is that in the category of Alien Conspiracy theory?

could be a possibility, given the sophisticated architecture the aztecs came up with not long after, which could have very well been influenced by an outside culture more advanced than themselves.

I'm not well versed in this legend but somewhere around the Bermuda triangle there is some kind of rock formation that looks like a walk way similar to the ones built by the Aztecs - and it spans for a great length extremely far down below the surface of the water. They've also allegedly recovered ancient artifacts from that area resembling pottery.

Weekly World News said they found it.

Yeah this atlantis thing is old news..

I believe it once existed. I also believe that it is somewhere around greece. There's just so much that points to it being in that area. Hopefully I'll still be around when they finally discover it.

a friend of mine sailed through the bermuda triangle and says the mystery is actually all about pirates.but he says its a strange sea.
also there is the city at lake titicata.nobody knows who built it.its made of stone with no cement.there is a village made the same way in scotland.

there was some artical that said they may have found the valcanio that sunk the city in the ocan by greeace

Well, I don't know if it does exist or not but I can say one thing for certain. A lot of the people who are claiming things in this thread have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Antarctica? A cemetary? For goodness sake people get a bloody grip.

It's an interesting story which may certainly have some basis in fact, or maybe not, and as has been pointed out if it did exist it would be buried under miles of sediment by now.

So I don't know, anmd certainly I think the truth will never be uncovered. And people making half-truths up is certainly not helping the matter.

I believe it did/does exsist...there is no smoke without fire, there is too much written about it in books, myths and folklore for it to all be a complete fabrication......open minds finds he answers..

I believe it exists. And the legend says it is off of greece

i belive its just a story made up but what do i know maybe it true but to where i dont have a dam clue...:)

I'm quite certain it does. So much so that I've been piggybacking on other people's research to do my own (I can't very well get out and sail right now).

It may have only been written about by Plato, but then again you know how superstitious people were back then. It's believable to say that after the city sank, the people feared the wrath of the gods, and destroyed all record of the city. Except in Pompei, where a painting in a house shows a city floating on the water, designed much the same way as Atlantis was described (concentric rings, advanced)

Uzziel!!! omg you crack me up !!!

and yes i DO remember the Patrick Duffy show MAN FROM ATLANTIS !!!
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my opinion?? .... why not?
humans beings AS A WHOLE .. like believing in things that there is no definitive proof for ...and yes .. i happen to be one of them lol

where is it? .. i tend to go with the OFF THE COAST OF GREECE theory myself ...

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