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Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus

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This is a great book, well-written and richly illustrated with 3 D maps and other details, and you can't help but to get carried away by the author's enthusiasm for the find. He proves that there is a sunken area off of Cyprus with a plain that might match the one reputed to be the one in Atlantis (the evidence about the circular city and the Acropolis is less convincing). He also says that tools have been found on Cyrpus that date to 10,000 b.c. All this is really interesting, but I'd like to stress that there have been no ancient ruins found here suggesting the lost civilization so far and that, as of the date of publication, no exploration, perhaps not even any diving has been done in the area. All the coastlines were lower during the last part of the Ice Age and most cities were built by the seas. When the waters rose, they were submerged, were every one of these Atlantis..?

Yet, the biggest problem, not only with this book and others like it is that they try and fit the facts of Plato's narrative to fit their own discovery. Mostly, they mention that no one knows which 'Pillars of Hercules' Plato was talking about (there was more than one, but according to the author, there were several), and that Atlantis was not in the Atlantic. The author mentions that references to the Atlantic were entered into the narrative later (his whole case depends on that), but once again, that is conjecture, like all the disclaimers that have been needed to try and make the case for Santorini/Thera as Atlantis for all these years (the Greeks didn't know how to read Egyptian measurements, which was false, Atlantis was supposed to be in the middle of Libya and Asia, not bigger than it, it didn't sink to the bottom of the sea, it was destroyed in a volcanic blast). All these disclaimers deny the original narrative, the most vivid description on Atlantis, which states clearly, more than once, that , before being destroyed, the Atlanteans swept through the Mediterranean from their base in the Atlantic and made war on all the people there. Plato clearly places Atlantis, not only beyond the Pillars of Hercules, but in the Atlantic Ocean, anyone who tries to place it anywhere else and made a discovery has probably found something else. Thera, Crete, Troy, Sardinia, and now Cyrpus have all been mentioned as possible locations for Atlantis, but they are all in the Mediterranean. Whatever these civilizations actually called themselves, it couldn't have been Atlantis. The name Atlantis isn't even Greek, by the way, it comes from the Americas, so the Greeks must have gotten it from someplace else.

In order to make their own case, these books too easily try to dismiss the Atlantic, especially in the Azores area as a site for Atlantis. The author says that this island chain is too far away from the Mediterranean to have affected it , which also assumes that ancient people didn't travel the sea. Well, according to the legend, the people of Atlantis were, over all things a sea-faring people. You can't take some parts of the legend to support your own thesis and then ignore/discount others. He also says that 'the 'Azores theory sunk beneath the waves of public opinion.' No, it hasn't! While the general public might not know the role the Azores have played in the Atlantis mystique, ask them where Atlantis was and, if they believe it existed at all, they will place it in the Atlantic. It's a logical assumption, why else was it called Atlantis..? You wouldn't call something in Thera or Troy or Cyprus Atlantis, you would name it that if it were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! I would like to see the same type of 3 D maps and diagrams the author has in his book done for all the island chains one finds in the Atlantic, then see what we would find. You would find that the Canaries, the Azores and Madeiras all expand in length, might also find areas that one has never even thought of before - one of these areas might well be the actual Atlantis. The fact remains while researchers blandly ignore the idea of a sunken land mass in the Atlantic, no expedition has ever been made to find Atlantis there at all. We have sonar readings and that's it.

I hope it doesn't sound like I panned this book. It is very entertaining and it raises some very interesting questions, I would like to see what happens if more research is done there. Then, too, I'm also waiting to hear more about the sunken city found off the coast of Cuba, the sunken island just off the Straits of Gibralter and whether there will ever be an expedition to Antarctica to see if there is indeed a lost civilization beneath the ice. All of these are Atlantis, too, or at least as much, if not more than Cyrpus is. A shame someone can't research them all at once, then post all the daily results on a website. Researchers, though, will never find the real Atlantis unless they stop looking to other parts of the world for it, and start looking where Plato placed it - in the Atlantic. It is a big ocean, the light is bad down there, but it's time to start searching for it....

This book favourably impressed me on more than one level. It is well organized and visually appealing.The writing has both down-to-earth and colourful elements, and some pretty high class, scientific/philosophical prose.
I'm no expert on ancient mythology, and initially had only a minor interest in the subject, but I was drawn into the Discovery of Atlantis, and couldn't put it down. I think I have a much better and more realistic understanding of the way things may have been in Atlantis, if it actually existed. I also could not stop thinking about the possibility that all the myths, whether they originate with the Egyptians, Greeks, or Sumerians concerning some kind of exceptional (superhuman) civilization existing in very ancient times, were all talking about the same phenomenon - namely an advanced "Edenic" civilization surrounded by late Stone Age human settlements.

This book manages to be neither stuffily scientific nor assumptive in its conclusions in spite of its genre. The facts are presented in an easy to digest style without inflicting hair-pulling madness as many other authors approaching similar topics do.That is to say it should satisfy scholars and the general public alike.

What can I say about the subject matter but after you read it I am sure your view of our world now will have changed. This book is the first piece in the jigsaw of the ancient world in my opinion and from here its all upwards.

This will soon be big news in the world, be one of the first to read.

Of all the wild attempts to find Atlantis...it seems, according to Sarmast, that the truth has been hidden in plain sight all along...

Believe Plato, he says...he's the man! By taking the ancient Philosopher literally at his word...and following scientific and geological clues (several of which seem quite recent...i.e. the notion of periodic flooding/drought cycles of the Mediterranean Basin) he has methodically come up with what may well be the true solution to this age-old enigma.

Coupled with luck in discovering Russian data that allowed some gorgeous, state-of-the-art maps to be drawn of previously uncharted waters, Sarmast seems to have hit the nail on the head! It's lucid, clear and easy to read...brings in mythology as well as the science... Short of mounting an expedition to Cyprus, it is as comprehensive a picture as we're likely to find. And it just makes a whole lot of sense. One thing is certain...whoever finally does mount an expedition to take a look will have no excuses for missing the mark...if they remember to take this book along as their guide! Fantastic stuff...but this time it really could be true!

I almost never read a book more than once. My second reading of Sarmast's book convinces me he is about to shake up the scientific world. Brighter people than I have been caught up in this project.
He had found something startling down a mile under water whether Atlantis, Eden or some other extremely olden city.

Robert Sarmast book Discovery of Atlantis is truly a mystery that is unfolding itself leading us to the greatest discovery known to mankind. He has unlocked all of the clues documented by Plato.

This book should be read all interested in Alantis or Eden. The book is easy to read and leads the reader on a most excellent and fascinating literary journey.

Guaranteed to satisify.

Enjoy

This is a truly great book to read, and the assumptions drawn by the author are well, pretty well explained and easy to grasp too. As the author mentions(and i'm in agreement with), he has managed to place 43 out of the 45 indications of the overal puzzle, making his theory a strong candidate on the search for Atlantis issue. It would be really great news if it turns out that Atlantis really existed after all, and it took a great amount of faith to discover it, just like in the case of Troy.

So let's wait for the 30th of April to come, when the expedition begins, and see what turns out. Even if nothing is found, let's not lose hope that someday Atlantis will reveal itself, in the Atlantic, in the Mediterannean, or anywhere else.

PS: Reviewer (...) mentioned that "The name Atlantis isn't even Greek, (...), so the Greeks must have gotten it from someplace else." This is false; the name 'Atlantis', as well 'Atlantic', are greek derivatives of the name 'Atlas', the titan (elder god) that after the defeat of the titans to the olympian gods, was punished by holding the heavens on his shoulders aeternally, according to hellenic mythology. The prefix of his name was used to denote something of colossal size.

Book is very readable. Fascinating to ponder that Eden & Atlantis may be one and the same.Author paints the topic with perspective and logic. Will be interesting to see the results from a few passes of a ship equipped with side scan sonar over this area.

The theory behind the book is very good ... shame that could not be demonstrated in the reality due of the fiasco when they tried to find Atlantis on the bottom of the coasts of Cyprus.

I met Robert Sarmast at a pre-expedition briefing 6 years ago, and he had assembled a prestegious team to actually go out and confirm the match of an anomoly found and enhanced at the area almost dead center between Cyprus (Aphroditie's birthplace) and Syria, part of the fertile crescent. When not underwater, this area would have been THE ideal place for Atlantis to be. Myraids of facts matched from Plato's Criteas and also from another recent cosmology book, "The Urantia Book" which also describes this same location as being in the Eastern Mediterreanean... So, a supporting ensamble of various expedition experts and well wishers donated funds and additional services materialized to go and take a closer look at the sea bed with Navy, Pheonix Internation's side-scan sonar!~

It just is quite unusaul that the dimensions and time periods and the connection with Cyprus and it having the bones of pigmy elephants on the "island" - The glorifiaction of horticultuere and the exaltation of agriculture, Cyprus being especially abundant in these goods, and the fertile crescent area in the levant well connects to this region, and domestication of animals, the working with fire and metals, so much to imagine before the Gibralter broke and flooded this region, reshaping the landscape and creating greater migrations - I could go on, but I was there on the Flying Enterprise when after many delays and setbacks, we were 1 mile of water above an ancient wall 1.6 miles by 1 mile rectangle - 330' x 30' walls! - with two- 90 degree square corners - in front of a table mountain facing South, with bigger protective mountains behind it, all now underwater! The sonar folks, Tim, Russel, Mark, from Pheonix International were really the most amazed! After 7 days shifting back and forth over the site we were sure we had found it (the acropolis hill) -I am imagining that 10,000 years ago, before the gibralter broke, and flooded the region, doubbling the water level would have been one SWEET place to Live! Fertile! Abundant! Protected, and easily defendable - with one land entry point to the east, by Damascus, the oldest city in the world today would have been the virtual entry point for Atlantis ! I am very greatful to have played a very small role in videotaping the saga of this 100 hour adventure at sea - and on 11-11-04, at about 11AM in the morning, the data of the wall being recognised on high resolution side-scan sonar - find reverberated through our ship, the Flying Enterprise, Robert was Most pleased. I know it is impossible to convince you that we really found Atlantis. That will be for you to look inside the book, and see if there is any evidence of that. And there are over 100 correlations that match! Pieces of the puzzel just usually don't fit together so well. Anyway, I am sure we found it! Glorious Eve & Adam had there bouts with impatience. Seems to be a planetary legacy. Fun to imagine the celestials comming down to teach humans how to live more in peace, abundance and harmony! Cyprus, the island of love, Home of Mount Olympus, would have looked like a 2 mile high MAtterhorn, with it's twisting peak to the folks in those days of they lookesd out to their west. and just to the south a beautful inland sea!