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The legendary city of Atlantis is believed to have been located by a U.S.-led research team. The team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. Buried in the marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, it's believed that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed city known as Atlantis. The research team used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site. Head researcher, Richard Freund, discovered a strange series of memorial cities built in Atlantis' image by it's refugees after the city's apparently death by tsunami. That discovery gave researchers added proof and confidence in regards to the discovery of Atlantis north of Cadiz. It's suspected that the people who built those memorial cities fled from the destruction of Atlantis and built the cities there.
It's still hard to say that the site in Spain is in fact Atlantis, Freund said the "twist" of finding the memorial cities makes him confident that Atlantis was buried in the ud flats on Spain's southern coast. Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as an island situated in front of the straits known as the Straits of Gibraltar, known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city. Tsunamis in the region have been documented for centuries, one of the largest was a reported 10-story tidal wave that slammed Lisbon in November 1755.
Debate whether or not Atlantis truly existed has lasted thousand of years. Plato's dialogues from around 360 B.C. are the only known historical sources of information about the iconic city. Plato said the island he called Atlantis "in a single day and night... disappeared into the depths of the sea". Further excavations are planned at the site where they beleive Atlantis is located at the mysterious cities in Central Spain 150 miles away to more closely study geological formations and to date artifacts.
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What are your thoughts on this? I'm both skeptical amused by this news. It hasn't been confirmed, but it is very possible according to the research and evidence pointing in that direction.