UM-Bot Posted February 1, 2017 #1 Share Posted February 1, 2017 The famed movie director has linked the discovery of bronze age anchors to the legend of Atlantis. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/303353/james-cameron-finds-evidence-of-atlantis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted February 1, 2017 #2 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I have been fascinated by the Atlantis controversy for many years but 4,000+ year old anchors can't get me very excited. I was hoping for something more interesting when I clicked the link. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpandMyMind Posted February 1, 2017 #3 Share Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) Well it is evidence of an advaced sailing society that could fit with the timeline and region of the myth. It's closer to evidence of Atlantis than anything else discovered (which wouldn't take much). Edited February 1, 2017 by ExpandMyMind 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer77 Posted February 1, 2017 #4 Share Posted February 1, 2017 4 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: I have been fascinated by the Atlantis controversy for many years but 4,000+ year old anchors can't get me very excited. I was hoping for something more interesting when I clicked the link. I think its somewhat exciting. If you subscribe to the theory that a grouping of anchors equates to there having been a harbor there that gives researchers a place to focus on searching. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted February 1, 2017 #5 Share Posted February 1, 2017 3 minutes ago, Farmer77 said: I think its somewhat exciting. If you subscribe to the theory that a grouping of anchors equates to there having been a harbor there that gives researchers a place to focus on searching. Yeah, I guess I'll get more excited if further searching does turn up something really interesting (but not before). The theory of Atlantis that most intrigues me is the more ancient and advanced civilization idea. Multiple psychic sources have talked of this in considerable detail. Desperate psychic sources seem to be saying the same things. That intrigues me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer77 Posted February 1, 2017 #6 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Just now, papageorge1 said: Yeah, I guess I'll get more excited if further searching does turn up something really interesting (but not before). The theory of Atlantis that most intrigues me is the more ancient and advanced civilization idea. Multiple psychic sources have talked of this in considerable detail. Desperate psychic sources seem to be saying the same things. That intrigues me. Im an absolute firm believer in the possibility of advanced ancient technologies so im with you on that ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cormac mac airt Posted February 1, 2017 Popular Post #7 Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 hour ago, ExpandMyMind said: Well it is evidence of an advaced sailing society that could fit with the timeline and region of the myth. It's closer to evidence of Atlantis than anything else discovered (which wouldn't take much). Except it doesn't as the timeline is some 8000 years off so not remotely a good fit. It's more inline, timewise, with what we know of Phoenician sailing. cormac 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanslune Posted February 1, 2017 #8 Share Posted February 1, 2017 2 hours ago, UM-Bot said: The famed movie director has linked the discovery of bronze age anchors to the legend of Atlantis. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/303353/james-cameron-finds-evidence-of-atlantis Sounds more like evidence for those people from Tyre.....and around. Phoenicians 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpandMyMind Posted February 1, 2017 #9 Share Posted February 1, 2017 12 minutes ago, cormac mac airt said: Except it doesn't as the timeline is some 8000 years off so not remotely a good fit. It's more inline, timewise, with what we know of Phoenician sailing. cormac Plato provided a date? How could anyone even begin to properly estimate the a timeline of such a legend? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorvir Posted February 1, 2017 #10 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Evidence for a contrived fictional setting created by Plato to tell a story. Oh, how magical....let's see who falls for that on this site. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV-426 Posted February 1, 2017 #11 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Personally, I wouldn't take anything less than Patrick Duffy popping out of my fish pond with webbed hands and feet, but "bronze age anchors" is at least a little less tenuous than some of the Atlantis links on UM... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skliss Posted February 1, 2017 #12 Share Posted February 1, 2017 He "finds" something every couple of years. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsec Posted February 1, 2017 #13 Share Posted February 1, 2017 What is it lately with all these misleading and sensationalistic titles? They are growing in numbers every day! "2017: Rise of the Click bait". 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cormac mac airt Posted February 1, 2017 Popular Post #14 Share Posted February 1, 2017 25 minutes ago, ExpandMyMind said: Plato provided a date? How could anyone even begin to properly estimate the a timeline of such a legend? Plato is the original source for Atlantis, in his writings Timaeus and Critias it is claimed in a fictional conversation that Atlantis existed 9000 years before Solon's time which makes it circa 9600 BC. Anyone making claims about the dating of Atlantis should actually read Plato's works first before discussing irrelevant timelines. cormac 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsec Posted February 1, 2017 #15 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Besides, it looks to me it's more evidence of his next movie's plot. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back to earth Posted February 1, 2017 #16 Share Posted February 1, 2017 11 minutes ago, Parsec said: What is it lately with all these misleading and sensationalistic titles? They are growing in numbers every day! "2017: Rise of the Click bait". expect a PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted February 1, 2017 #17 Share Posted February 1, 2017 wasn't it based on Libya? Or part of what was then Libya that's now underwater, or something to that effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cormac mac airt Posted February 1, 2017 #18 Share Posted February 1, 2017 4 minutes ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said: wasn't it based on Libya? Or part of what was then Libya that's now underwater, or something to that effect? Per Plato's Critias, in part: Quote ...was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia... Libya in that context is believed to have been the known extent of Northern Africa along the coast while Asia refers to the known extent of Asia Minor. cormac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geraldnewfie Posted February 1, 2017 #19 Share Posted February 1, 2017 i laughed when seen this, maybe the anchors were off a boat?, either fell off during a storm? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gecks Posted February 1, 2017 Popular Post #20 Share Posted February 1, 2017 There's a large river not too far from home and I can guarantee theres atleast 6 car tyres in there and an old car body.... clearly evidence this river was once a major highway that sank beneath the waters 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted February 1, 2017 #21 Share Posted February 1, 2017 3 minutes ago, cormac mac airt said: Per Plato's Critias, in part: Libya in that context is believed to have been the known extent of Northern Africa along the coast while Asia refers to the known extent of Asia Minor. cormac Yes, Libya, like Ethiopia, usually meant the whole of Africa (or what they knew to be Africa) then, didn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 1, 2017 #22 Share Posted February 1, 2017 38 minutes ago, Parsec said: Besides, it looks to me it's more evidence of his next movie's plot. Please don't say that, I don't think I could take a James Cameron remake of http://myfantasticart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/warlords_of_atlantis_poster_04.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cormac mac airt Posted February 1, 2017 #23 Share Posted February 1, 2017 5 minutes ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said: Yes, Libya, like Ethiopia, usually meant the whole of Africa (or what they knew to be Africa) then, didn't it. More the latter than the former, but yes. By layout, again according to Plato, the island of Atlantis was in the area of 300 miles X 300 miles. Needless to say nothing that size could have existed directly in front of the Straits of Gibraltar where Plato places Atlantis, nor is there any evidence of such a landmass having existed there at any point in history. cormac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted February 1, 2017 #24 Share Posted February 1, 2017 2 hours ago, papageorge1 said: Yeah, I guess I'll get more excited if further searching does turn up something really interesting (but not before). The theory of Atlantis that most intrigues me is the more ancient and advanced civilization idea. Multiple psychic sources have talked of this in considerable detail. Desperate psychic sources seem to be saying the same things. That intrigues me. Other than those psychic sources being able to locate Atlantis, yes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted February 1, 2017 #25 Share Posted February 1, 2017 The other mystery is, where was Plato's Cave? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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