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Describe atlantis
The alternative record treats Atlantis not as fiction but as a garbled cultural memory of a real pre-catastrophic civilization. Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, and Robert Schoch converge on a Younger Dryas impact or flood event c. 10,800–9,600 BCE as the physical substrate of the legend. Plato's date of 9,000 years before Solon maps almost precisely onto that horizon — and that correspondence is not coincidence according to these researchers.
Evidence
- Graham Hancock, in Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods, argues that Plato's date — 9,600 BCE — is not rhetorical decoration but a genuine transmission through Egyptian priestly records that Solon accessed at Sais.
- Randall Carlson, drawing on glaciological and geological data, points to the catastrophic drainage of North American glacial lakes — Lake Agassiz in particular — as capable of raising sea levels tens of meters within human lifetimes.
- Robert Schoch's re-dating of the Sphinx to at least 7,000–10,000 BCE based on water erosion patterns suggests a literate or semi-literate civilization well before the accepted historical timeline.
- Brien Foerster documents anomalous elongated skulls and precision megalithic stonework in coastal Peru and Bolivia — regions that would have been differently configured geographically before the ice-age sea-level rise of roughly 120 meters.
- Ignatius Donnelly's 1882 work Atlantis: The Antediluvian World remains the foundational text in this tradition, cataloguing linguistic, botanical, and mythological parallels between Old and New World cultures that he argued could only be explained by a common Atlantic source.