Did a Climate Disaster Destroy an Ancient African Empire Called Atlantis in the Sahara?
Plato described Atlantis as situated off the coast of North Africa, with cities reaching across the Sahara, claiming it was submerged by a flood or climatic disaster 12,000 years ago, and was home to an advanced civilization. Since Plato's era, numerous scholars and theorists have purported to pinpoint the location of this lost civilization.
The only mention of Atlantis by name is found in Plato's Dialogues, written around 360 B.C. These works include "Timaeus," which attempts to explain the universe, and "Critias," offering detailed descriptions of Atlantis and its possible location in relation to other ancient sites. It was "Critias" that largely fueled the belief in the real existence of Atlantis. Regarding Morocco, a German computer specialist, Michael Hübner, fascinated by the mathematical aspects of “Timaeus” and “Critias,” employed a Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction approach. He meticulously analyzed each of Plato’s hints in these texts, assigned them weights, and pinpointed a region on the map in North Africa, close to Morocco and the Sahara, about 3000 miles from Greece.
One of the most intriguing hints Plato offered about Atlantis was the presence of concentric circles surrounding the city, composed of black and red stones, indicative of its maritime culture. Michael Hübner led researchers across the desert where they indeed found black and red striped stones. Traveling to the Sahara's edge, a brief hike up a hill reveals these concentric circles, situated mere miles from the Atlantic Ocean, presenting a strong argument for Atlantis's location in the Sahara.
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