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originally posted by: LABTECH767
Remember while we today accept that the pillars of Heracles are the straights of Gibraltar (the story of Cilla and Charybdis may hearken back to even longer to a time when the isthmus of Gibraltar broke and the sea flooded into the Mediterranean basin with the whirlpool and the gnashing rock's), though it has to be said that the assumption that it refers to the straight's of Gibraltar has often been challenged.
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And beginning from the sea they bored a canal of three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbour, and leaving an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress
I saw that as well and have it marked. There are no signs, indications as to its age. It is well preserved. It does appear to be a foundation, but the lack of rocks around it would suggest it is post flood. Someone came back wanting to rebuild, and gave up. That is the impression I'm given. Besides, you can see it was built on a wash, or runoff area. No signs the water ran around the structure.
originally posted by: skido
Found something interesting inside the structure.
21°07'23.1"N 11°22'23.3"W
Not knowing where the coastline was 12,000 years ago, one cant be certain. Though, only a 6 mile long canal could have been cut to open a waterway for larger ships to follow rivers to the outer ring, could, and is probably what they did. I doubt the coastline has changed that much.
originally posted by: Harte
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And beginning from the sea they bored a canal of three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this, which became a harbour, and leaving an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress
The Richat Structure has never been within 50 stadia of the sea.
This thread is about an imaginary place.
Harte
originally posted by: Grimpachi
Great OP. I started writing a new book a couple of weeks ago and wanted to use Atlantis as a starting point for the story that spans millennias of time but kind of glossed over the Atlantis chapter until I did some research on it. I am in the process of shifting the story to match the info from the OP and I am excited about it. The only issue is coming up with a plausible reason for the rapid land rise of that region.
originally posted by: punkinworks10
there are so many reasons this is lame
originally posted by: ziplock9000
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
This is OLD news.. been living under a rock?