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Plato's original description said that Atlantis was near the Pillars of Heracles, including the Rock of Gibraltar just south-east. A team sent to the area discovered the ruins of circular pillars and a greenish blue mantle, as Plato said, says Mr. Blackburn. They also found a dike and, crucially, evidence of a tsunami.
The documentary claims that the ruins date from 10,000 to 12,000 years ago – around the time Plato had said that Atlantis had been flooded.
The Doñana National Park has already been proposed as a potential site – a 2004 study concluded that while it was real, Atlantis was probably located in southwestern Spain. The filmmaker James Cameron even led an expedition to the area in 2017, finding a treasure trove of Bronze Age anchors – unfortunately several thousand years too late to come from Atlantis .
Merlin Burrows' research has not been submitted to a reputable scientific journal. Instead, he teamed up with a film production company to create a two-hour documentary, Atlantica.
"I immediately turn on my bullshit detector when someone, instead of doing it, makes the announcement by a press release, a press conference, a web page or a documentary," he said. told LiveScience Ken Feder, professor of anthropology at the Central University of Connecticut.
"As an archaeologist, I know that I always need to be in the company of my bullshit detector.And these guys, they did everything they could to trigger my bullshit detector. "
He said that many things described in Plato's dialogues are clearly not predefined in Doñana, such as concentric rings of land and sea or giant walls of stone, silver and gold.
"Bless their hearts," he added, saying it would be "great" if it was true.
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