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Researchers have uncovered a vast submerged land north of present-day Australia, once home to up to 500,000 people, now lost beneath the sea. What is also interesting is that the find resonates profoundly with indigenous mythology.
Is the Eye of Africa/Sahara the remains of Atlantis?
The Richat structure is an earthen structure of unknown origin in Mauritania, on the northwest coast of Africa. It consists of concentric circles of raised ground, bordered by mountains to the north and facing the sea to the south. It’s very big. It also happens to be almost the exact same size as the measurements Plato gave for Atlantis (depending on how you interpret ancient Greek units of measurement).
According to Solon, who reportedly passed information to Plato on Atlantis, the lost city was destroyed in 11600BC.
This ties in with The Younger Dryas theory – that claims there was a massive change in global temperatures that caused sea levels to fluctuate and huge wildfires to blaze.
This devastating event could have been what wiped out the whole city.
According to Plato: “There were alternate zones of sea and land encircling each other, there were two of land and three of water.”
The diameter of the outer circle measures 23.5km, according to Google Map’s measuring tool. Atlantis was said to measure 127 Stadia, in today’s terms that is 77,089ft, or 23.49km.
The surrounding areas match the description of Atlantis fairly note-for-note as well. Plato describes the city as being bordered to the north by mountains notable for their great number and beauty. The Richat structure is indeed ringed by mountains to the north. The mountains to the north of the Eye of the Sahara had waterfalls falling from them when the Sahara desert was not yet a desert, which would be fairly noteworthy.
Could Atlantis be hiding in plain sight? An Irish team of researchers believe it is. They claim that the legendary land made famous by Plato is actually Ireland. Here, the first pieces of evidence they examine match the classic story itself and the geography of the island.
