In 2018, the superhero movie "Aquaman" directed by Chinese director Wen Ziren exploded around the world, and the story background in the film is the long-lost Atlantean civilization, for the name Oflantis, perhaps everyone has heard it in various myths and legends and science fiction movies since childhood, legendary Atlantis is a highly developed marine civilization in ancient times, with a brilliant culture and far beyond our current technology, but it is the country closest to the realm of the gods. But around 12,000, due to the mysterious disappearance of various disasters, Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea in the film "Aquaman", so is the story structure in the movie completely imaginary? Did the Atlantean civilization really exist in history? If so, where are the ruins of Atlantis now?
Mysterious civilization
For the record of Atlantis, the earliest appeared in the ancient Greek philosopher: Plato's book "Dialogue", of which the "Timeo" and "Crititian" both described the story of Atlantis in detail, the book records that Atlantis is probably located in the "Pillar of Haigris", that is, the island opposite the Strait of Gibraltar today, it is said that although the coast of Atlantis is steep, but the center of the island is indeed a wide and fertile plain, of which the capital Poseidonia is located in the center of Atlantis, very prosperous, And has a magnificent palace and temple, the statue is decorated with gold, silver, ivory and like a flame shining, called mountain brass metal, according to the book, mountain brass is a metal unique to Atlantis, its value is second only to gold, and this metal is particularly suitable for making weapons, very precious, in addition, Atlantis also has a distinct feature, that is, its famous three-layer concentric circle structure,
Around the central capital of Atlantis, there are three layers of circular canals, the layout is very clever, according to legend, the founder of Atlantis is the sea god Poseidon, originally this island was the place where Poseidon's golden house was hidden, Poseidon fell in love with a beautiful girl with two parents, but could not let the gods know, so he placed her on the island, the beautiful wife gave birth to five pairs of twins and ten sons for him, so Poseidon divided the entire island into ten areas, let ten sons rule, and the eldest son as the supreme ruler, Because this eldest son is called Atlas, so the country is called the Kingdom of Atlantis, each son of Poseidon manages his own land, free from interference from the sea god and other brothers, but will keep in touch, they will go to the central of the country every 5 to 6 years to hold a general meeting at the poseidon statue in the center of the country to discuss the distribution of rights, similar to the current federal system, we can imagine Atlantis as a modern country, according to Plato, the people here are educated and have unusually intelligent brains, Not only did they master advanced technology, but they also possessed countless wealth, Andlantis also had a huge army, they had 10,000 chariots and 1200 warships, and when they lived a comfortable life, they began to take their steps farther afield, and even began to invade, and finally angered Zeus, the king of the gods, who brought earthquakes and floods to Atlantis, ending everything in Atlantis.
So where exactly is Atlantis
According to the smallest number of data on the Internet, there are as many as 40 places in the world where atlantis sites are suspected, and exaggerated data is that there are more than 1,000 places suspected of being atlantis sites, but most people think that there are only two places with the greatest possibility.
1 Antarctica
The first is our current Antarctica, which starts from an ancient map, we all know that Antarctica is the ice and snow world, but the Antarctic in the ancient map is not covered by ice and snow, it seems to be a very warm land, at first researchers were puzzled, until the emergence of satellite remote sensing technology, through the shooting of the Antarctic continent under the ice people realized that the ancient map of the warm Antarctic continent really exists, then will antarctica be the legendary Atlantis, if this speculation is true, Atlantis is covered in ice and snow and gradually disappears, so there is no trace left.
2 Eyes of the Sahara
In 1965, the American Gemini 4 spacecraft suddenly discovered an eye-like geological landscape while calculating the sky over the Sahara Desert, and after the release of Google Maps, people could clearly see the details of this terrain. Since then, countries have sent scientific expeditions to the field, and no one knows how this was formed.
According to Plato, the shape of Atlantis is circled, the overall diameter of the island is 127 stadion (ancient Greek unit of measurement), that is, 23.49 km, while the diameter of this eye of the Sahara eye is measured at 23.5 km, showing a surprising stability. Plato also wrote that the north side of the island is green mountains and the south side is the ocean. According to the map, the terrain in the north has obvious uplifts, which feel very much like mountains, while the wisps of sand in the south are particularly like there was once flowing water. In fact, Plato also said the specific location of Atlantis, on the island bought next to an island opposite the Strait of Gibraltar, the first island must refer to the African continent, and the western part of the African continent was a long time ago the sea, so some people speculate that the land later formed the current topography of Africa after the merger with Atlantis.
The country where the Eye of the Sahara is located is Mauritania, a poorer country, but there are particularly many iron ore mines, and more gold and silver mines than other countries. According to Plato, Atlantis mainly produced gold, silver, and a metal called mountain copper, and if mountain copper is proved to be iron, then atlantis has another solid evidence.
But there is also a more eerie place, the Eye of the Sahara is 400 meters above sea level, which is not in line with Plato's description of being hit by a huge wave to the bottom of the sea. But the data shows that 12,000 years ago, the Earth's sea level rose suddenly, but at most it only reached -80 meters now. In fact, Plato used an ambiguous expression when describing the ending of Atlantis, he said that Atlantis eventually became a place that ships could not reach, not the deep sea, but now it is found at an altitude of 400 meters, which can make people have rich associations, in fact, this book was originally completed after Plato's hearsay, so it is likely that the truth of Atlantis was buried in the smoke cloud of history in circulation.