Searching for the 'Mayan Atlantis'

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Searching for the 'Mayan Atlantis'

October 12 2004 at 09:44AM

Mexico City - A team of international archaeologists have set sail from Mexico to seek a sunken city that has been dubbed the "Mayan Atlantis", press reports said on Monday.

Quoted by the Mexican newspaper Milenio, team leader Paulina Zelintzky, a Russian archaeologist, said sonar equipment had given indications there could be ancient structures on the ocean floor between Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and Cuba.

According to Milenio, resonances showed geometric images similar to pyramids and round structures. The archaeologists will search the area using a mini-submarine known as "Deep Worker".

Signs there could be Mayan remains on the seabed first surfaced in 2000 when the area next to Cuba's westernmost tip was being explored for petroleum.

Before beginning their project, the archaeologists had to raise $2-million (about R13-million). They set sail from the port of Progreso in eastern Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula. - Sapa-dpa link (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1097554324900B252)
It would be cool if this city is found... I would love to see pictures of it.

[who45]

That would be cool.

[FieryHands]

Yeah, I agree.

[Darth Buddha]

I suspect we will find many cities to substantiate the Atlantis myth. Given that the Ice Age tended to make continental interiors less habitable than coastal areas, the melt after the end of the last Ice Age probably wiped out most of the advanced civilizations that existed at the time.

Noah's Flood, Atlantis, Babylonian, Hindu, and Egyptian flood myths probably are all rooted in a common event.

I just hope that the key lesson, the mortality of civilization, will register in "modern" minds.

[bubblez]

Those sorts of discoveries are soooooo neat. So much has been lost from our history. There is so much to be rediscovered.

Hmmm... and what was that theory about the human population being severly reduced a few milennia ago? Was that the asteroid impact near the Yucatan? Anyhoo, the supposed major reduction in the human populace is thought to have contributed to so much knowledge of ancient cultures being lost.

OH! And the use of pyramids around the planet. Intriguing. Did that practice stem from one place or did all the peoples get the idea at the same time?

[Third EYe]

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