Archaeology & History

Was Atlantis on the Moroccan coast ?

By T.K. Randall
March 17, 2015 ·  564 comments

Was Atlantis once situated in what is now Morocco ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Lukasz Ciesielski Once written about by the Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis was said to be a wondrous, advanced metropolis that thrived for years before being lost beneath the waves.

While numerous attempts have been made over the centuries to discover the city's whereabouts, one in particular, that of German computer programmer Michael Hubner, has returned to the forefront recently thanks to new research by author Mark Adams.

Hubner's claim was based on a detailed data analysis of historical clues which included references to the "Pillars of Heracles", the presence of elephants, a ring-like structure within the city and the assumption that it should lie within a distance of 3,100 miles of Greece's capital Athens.By combining 51 separate clues and developing software to analyze them, Hubner was able to come up with the single most likely place where the fabled city could have been. Once he had the co-ordinates he bought a plane ticket and some hiking boots and went to take a look.

The location turned out to be on the west coast of Morocco, a region that had seen very little archaeological study. Hubner believed that not only was this where Atlantis had been but that evidence could also be found to support the idea that the city was destroyed by a tsunami.

Sadly Hubner passed away in 2013 and his findings have yet to be studied in full. Whether he actually did uncover the location of the lost city remains, for the moment, unknown.

Source: New York Post | Comments (564)

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