ATLANTIS INTERNET COULD HAVE BEEN IN SPAIN Atlantis, the lost paradise described by the Greek philosopher Plato who reportedly disappeared after a major tsunami, could be in Spain, according to an investigation that began five years with a satellite photo.
The texts of Plato placed Atlantis in front of the Pillars of Hercules, instead attributed to the Strait of Gibraltar that marked the limit of the known world, and described as an island larger than Libya and Asia combined.
For years, scientists and lovers of archeology have claimed to have found Atlantis, one of the most recent was an aeronautical engineer in the UK Bernie Bamford, who in 2009 said to have found using the search engine Google Ocean, part of Google Earth and found to be a map the ocean floor.
However, after two years of research, an international team that participated in Professor Richard Freund, American University of Hartford (Connecticut), believes he has located the lost island in the Doñana National Park in the province of Cadiz, southern Spain, he told Today.
"We have discovered a geological pattern is not found in nature," said Freund, who explained that the structure and arrangement of the boulders has been detected shows that human intervention and may be remnants of the former island.
The research, which has the support of National Geographic, has been followed by the channel specializes in serving science, has recreated the discovery in a documentary broadcast in the United States on March 15 at (2400 GMT) and arrive in Spain in June.
She told Freund, in 2003, a team of German scientists, led by Werner Wickboldt discovered in satellite images of the Mediterranean Sea rectangular structures and concentric rings that match the descriptions of the island of the Greek philosopher.
Among the images caught the attention of the Hinojos marsh in which two rectangular structures and the remains of several concentric rings that have surrounded, as indicated by the Greek philosopher in his writings "Timaeus" and "Critias."
Using Plato's description as a guide and satellite photographs of what appears to be a submerged city just north of Cadiz, Freund and the international team tried to locate the island that was 925 meters in diameter and was surrounded by several circular structures, some other land and water.
To determine the exact coordinates of the island, which historians say was buried under water by a great flood caused by a tsunami, have been using a combination of submarine technology, radar depth Soil and digital mapping.
The team of archaeologists and historians led by Freund focused on ground-based measurements and mark where digging, made with carbon analysis confirmed that the layers corresponding to the Bronze Age there are signs that there was a violent storm or a tsunami in the area.
Another team, led by professors from the University of Huelva (Spain) Juan Antonio Morales and Claudio Lozano, focused on the measurement of geological formations that could belong to the area of \u200b\u200bthe former Bay of Tarshish.
addition, analysis radiocarbon events in Madrid and Miami (Florida) indicated that the deadline for a settlement had been in the Doñana National Park is the 2,500 BC, which coincides with the approximation made by historians.
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The German scientist said in his research that the Greeks might have confused the Egyptian word for coastal and island translate and transmit history to subsequent generations, which would confirm this finding.
"Jorge Bonsor, perhaps Spain's most important archaeologist of the early twentieth century and was looking for in the 1920's in the park of Doñana Atlantis so this was a famous place to find a famous place, "said Freund.
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