WestVirginiaRebel Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Yahoo News:NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) – A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain."This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters."It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.Freund's discovery in central Spain of a strange series of "memorial cities," built in Atlantis' image by its refugees after the city's likely destruction by a tsunami, gave researchers added proof and confidence, he said.Atlantis residents who did not perish in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities there, he added.The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.________All hail Atlantis!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEtOFnirc1k Or...Atlanta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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