Please be patient if the web delays to be loaded: it includes graphics. ATLANTIS : THE LYBIO-PHOENICIAN EMPIRE OF THE CANARY ISLANDS AND MOROCCO Picture representing the palace-capital of Atlantis according to Critias. Unluckly, the Atlantis' theme is taken mainly with some skepticism among many scholars as such disappeared advanced civilization did not leave any trace, so that it left an open gate to inspire many weird theories about superior races, extraterrestrials, and so on; such theories have wrapped up Atlantis with a certain degree of disdain to some. The theory that is receiving more support about the identification of Atlantis, is that of the Minoan Thalassocracy (the civilization developed in actual Crete in the third millenia); this culture fits well with the description offered by Plato about a developed civilization ruined in a night by an earthquake that submerged the island. Thera Island, north of Crete, is of volcanic nature and exploded by -1600, provoking it the abandon of the island's city and the sinking of a third of the island, fact that caused a tsunami that might have destroyed ships and coastal cities of nearer Crete: the Minoan influence and civilization almost ceased after such event. | |
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