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Is there evidence for the existence of Atlantis?
The convergence of geological, mythological, catastrophist, and esoteric evidence points well beyond Plato's allegory. Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, and Robert Schoch each independently argue for a technologically sophisticated pre-flood civilization destroyed by cataclysm around 10,800–9,600 BCE — precisely the timeframe Plato's Egyptian priests specified. The question is not whether Atlantis existed, but what name we give the civilization that did.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson, drawing on mainstream geological and ice-core data, identifies the Younger Dryas Boundary — circa 10,800 BCE — as a civilizational reset event of catastrophic scale.
- Charles Hapgood's pole shift hypothesis, later endorsed in correspondence by Albert Einstein, offers a geological mechanism for continent-scale inundation.
- Edgar Cayce's readings repeatedly located Atlantis in the Atlantic, with outpost civilizations in Egypt and the Yucatán — a claim Brien Foerster and others argue is supported by anomalous elongated skulls found in both regions.
- Hancock argues these point to a maritime civilization obliterated during the Younger Dryas impact event.
- The Comet Research Group (Firestone, West, Kennett et al.) published peer-reviewed evidence for a cosmic impact at this boundary, corroborating the timeframe Plato's Egyptian priests gave Solon in Timaeus: approximately 9,000 years before Solon's visit.