mong the clues, there is one that could be linked to the disappearance of Atlantis. An indication that is known to all; the flood described by the Bible. This flooding could be a direct consequence of the disappearance of Atlantis. Plato fact refers to these kinds of events by specifying that there were violent earthquakes accompanied by floods caused by very heavy rains. Especially when you consider that, according to Plato, one day and one night of excessive rain were enough to remove the earth and leave only the bare rock. This description is fully consistent with the idea we have of a flood. Another indication is the sudden warming of the Earth's climate 12'000 years ago, which has paradoxically resulted in to have frozen almost instantly these big elephants better known as mammoths. These facts took curiously place at the opposite side of the North Pole, where glaciers of the Ice Age began to melt.

We should therefore begin to seek answers to questions, what to look for and what should no longer be there, wonder what happened and find a possible list of dates.

Questions to answer:

At what place was Atlantis?
What was its size, or what size should it be?
An island, can it sink into nothingness, without leaving any trace?
Are there any continents that have been raised at altitude?
Is there room for an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and how do the tectonic plates fit with and without island in the middle?
The North and South Poles, were they in their place or have they been moved?
How is it that the mammoths were frozen with their bodies left intact?
How is it that Siberia and Alaska had an atmosphere corresponding to a latitude of 1'500 km further south and Europe and the North American continent a climate corresponding to a latitude of 1'500 km further north?
Why is the inclination of the axis of rotation of the Earth not the same as the orbital inclination of the Moon (difference ± 18 °).
Why does the center of the ice cap from 12'000 years ago show a difference of ~ 12° to ~ 20° with the North Pole?
If the poles were moved, how have they been, how can we explain it?
Was the mass of the ice cap high enough to have had an influence on the Earth's rotation?
Is the earth still spinning at the same speed around its axis, or has it been accelerated, or was it slowed down?
Could the poles have been moved by an asteroid or comet impact?
The magnetic and geographic poles, were they at the same place in the past?
Could the poles have traveled alone?
If a flood had taken place, from where came all this water?
If the water from the rain of the deluge came from the Atlantic Ocean, what source of heat could have caused the evaporation of all this water?
Does the date ‘0’ of the Maya calendar correspond to something?
Is there a coincidence between the period mentioned by Plato and the Maya calendar?
Is the period mentioned by Plato (between 8'500 and 10'000 BC) correspond to a particular alignment of the planets?
Cayce speaks of two societies on Atlantis, one of which was monotheistic and the other polytheistic: did they become the Jewish, Egyptian and Mayan people of our era?
Are there inexplicable similarities between cultures?

Although Plato does not give us any details, or was not able to give the location and size of Atlantis, he nevertheless gives some guidance. He also mentioned that certain elements should still be there.

Plato's criteria:

Larger than the middle east today. We speak in terms of thousands of kilometers and millions of square kilometers.
Sacred monuments where there were once sources.
Of hot springs that have continued to flow up to today.
The ocean surrounding the island, bore the same name the island itself.
The island is located in front of the columns of Hercules (Gibraltar).
The island had a plain of about 350 km by 230 km protected to the north by mountains against the cold winds from the north.
From this island, you could navigate to a continent that covered the Earth from north to south.

Some elements that should be taken into account:

>Places within the limits mentioned by Plato.
Enumeration of the minimum population to support an army of 1'260'000 men.
The alignment of the planets of the solar system and their dates.
Any traces of excessive rain.
The position of the poles.
Traces and places of meteor, asteroid or comet impact.
The mass, velocity and location of impact to justify a shift of the poles.
Correspondence between events and the known Maya calendar.
Whether the day was once longer or shorter, between, let's say, 23 hours and 25 hours.
A volcano or volcanoes or volcanic activity.

Reading the texts of Plato, we can see that some things need no longer be sought for, since they should no longer be there. He was quite explicit in its description of the magnitude of the disaster. Ready to believe that the event is largely out of the ordinary, leaving little chance for all the things that were not massive constructions. It's not difficult to imagine, if the soft parts of soil were removed, that any construction done on this have been washed away also.

This should not be there any longer:

Human constructions and most roads.
The richer and more softer parts of soil. (Quotation from Plato)
Buildings and other structures unable to withstand earthquakes of magnitude of eight, nine or more.

In the following list are, apart from the dates of major events, dates of alignment of the planets. The dates of alignment were obtained with a program that calculated the positions of different planets vis-à-vis the position of the Earth and not their positions in the sky as astrology and astronomy programs do. In this calculation, the angles of the planets were calculated day by day vis-à-vis the angle of the position of the Earth on January the first. It's then that the positions were examined to see if they were in the same sector, with Venus and the Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. We must also take into account that all dates mentioned are not exactly known. Besides that an estimate had to be made.

Note that to simplify the writing in the following list, dates prior to Jesus Christ have been marked with the initials “BC”.

Chronology of events:

11xxx	BC	Date on which the Egyptian priests placed the departure of the gods, who, according to their beliefs, had lived among them in Upper Egypt.
10xxx	BC	Start of the melting of the glaciers of the Ice Age.
10xxx	BC	Siberian mammoths have been frozen instantly.
10700	BC	Date on which Cayce placed the disappearance of Atlantis.
9895	BC	Alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on one side of the Sun and Venus, Moon and Earth on the other side.
9792	BC	The zodiac Denderah contains a special sign in Leo. (A lion in a boat!)
9716	BC	Alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on one side of the Sun and Venus, Moon and Earth on the other side.
9600	BC	It's there where Plato has located the disaster of Atlantis. (Plato wrote his dialogues at 380 BC, the story was narrated by Solon goes up to 600 BC and the event itself is supposed to be 9000 years before that. Taking a margin of 200 years, any date of 9400 BC up to 9800 BC will do.)
9537	BC	Alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on one side of the Sun and Venus, Moon and Earth on the other side.
8238	BC	End of a Maya era and beginning of another.
3113	BC	End of a Maya era and beginning of another.
2794	BC	The Maya had recorded a period of about two weeks, referring to a currently unknown event. (1.18.5.3.6 to 1.18.5.4.0)
25xx	BC	Some experts in reading the Bible situate here the time of the Biblical flooding.
25xx	BC	Construction of the pyramids of Giza.
15xx	BC	The island Thera and the Minoan civilization have been almost completely destroyed by a volcanic disaster.
12xx	BC	Reign of Ramses II and the exodus of the Jewish people.
380	BC	Plato wrote his dialogues.
1882		Ignatius Donnelly wrote his “Atlantis - The Antediluvian World.”
1924		Lewis Spence wrote his “The Problem of Atlantis.”
1960		The ruins of ancient cities were discovered on Thera.
1968		Ruins, better known as the “Bimini Wall,” were discovered.
1976		Otto H Muck wrote his “Alles über Atlantis, Alte Thesen - neue forshungen.”

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