I'm a frequent lurker, infrequent poster.

My theory is that the lines seen are not an artifact of image processing. I think the lines are depressions in the surface. They resemble collapsed tunnels to me. Could this site actually be an old mine, or perhaps an ancient underground base? The lines don't seem to show much regard for the topography on the surface, which makes me think it may have originated below the surface. This is just based off the photos I'm seeing in this post.

My own theory begs some questions though... What is the scale we are talking about here? Some say a small town, others say a country. Do we have a square mileage amount? Secondly, if they are depressions, why haven't they filled in with sand and soil over the centuries? Thirdly, are there other phenomena like this?

I realize I could answer a couple of these questions on my own, but Google Earth and my phone don't get along.

You may be on to something there actually, I've heard theories about these underground military bases and if they are real and one did collapse maybe that's a good reason to hide the evidence...
They have found strange underground tunnel systems from ancient times too but as complex as they were they were nowhere near the scale of this anomaly...

I feel the biggest reason the PTB are actively hiding the truth of past cultures and civilizations (The ones that had technology surpassing our modern days), Is because if the common person knew what we could really achieve without the shackles of modern world governments, we would be tearing down their house of cards already..

Fear and forced ignorance are their greatest weapons against the masses...

Whatever it is is still there... even still visible without the timeline option.

As are the other close by 'unnatural' straight lines.

Nothing to see here...

I'm surprised there haven't been explorations done of this area. You would think if treasure hunters etc knew about this possibility, they would have been there already.

Let's be honest, it's a pretty shaky gridpattern. I was expecting the founders of Atlantis to do a better job than Micheal J Fox

Originally posted by webpirate
Nature rarely if ever creates straight lines. Much less multiple straight lines at regular intervals from each other.

Neither does man. It's VERY rare to find a town or city laid out in a regular grid fashion. Just look at an aerial view of your favorite city and you'll see what I mean. And especially going back to ancient times, a "spoke" layout was much more popular where the roads radiated out from the city center like the spokes of a wheel.

I don't know if anyone bothered to read what Google said about this, but they said the image artifacts were left over from the way the area was scanned, the ship made grid passes back and forth and there was some overlap to the imaged areas. The overlaps created the band-like artifacts. Sounds completely reasonable and plausible, there's simply no reason to see this as anything else. If a city had been there it would be much more likely that you would see the remains of built structures rather than the roadways (pyramids, stone temples, etc.) And there are none.