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Our curiosity and fondness for the sea is like a natural one.
Perhaps it is related to the origin of life in the ocean, and our hippocampus has long been imprinted with the imprint of the sea.
The vast, mysterious sea is like a magical oceanographic museum, waiting for us to explore and discover.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Lost Empire: Atlantis</h1>
I believe that everyone is familiar with this name, from the cartoons when I was a child to the "Aquaman" in the previous two years.
However, the earliest source of Atlantis comes from the great philosopher Plato's Dialogues more than 2,000 years ago. The book is a bit like the Greek version of the Analects, but it is also a dialogue, dealing with various philosophical issues discussed by Socrates and others.
Plato
Among them, the Timeo and Cridia mention Atlantis:
"9,000 years ago, beyond the Pillar of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar at the western end of the Mediterranean) there was an Atlantic Ocean with a Great West Island in the ocean. The scenery is beautiful, the land is fertile, and the people of the island are prosperous and prosperous. Later, the Atlanteans became corrupt and depraved and attempted to invade Greece. Zeus then gathered the gods and caused earthquakes and floods, sinking the land to the bottom of the sea..."
The capital of Atlantis restored according to Plato's description
Moreover, in the "Dialogue", it is also written that when the gods of Mount Olympus were drawing lots to divide the territory, poseidon, the god of the sea, won the island of Atlantis, he married a human woman on the island, and gave birth to 5 twins, which were later kings of the 10 kingdoms of Atlantis.
In the thousands of years that followed, Atlantis built magnificent cities, the most spectacular of which was the central royal capital.
A circle of concentric canals, a tall wall of brass and glittering gold, and a palatial royal palace in the innermost part.
Stills from Aquaman
In addition, Atlantis was extremely powerful. Of course, it is not the divine soldiers in "Aquaman" who ride the dragon and the great white shark. The Middle Kingdom alone has 720,000 infantry, 120,000 cavalry, 10,000 chariots and 1,200 warships, plus 9 other kingdoms, and it is not known how many.
It can be seen that in the eyes of the ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago, Atlantis was simply powerful enough to have no friends!
If it really wants to be like the legend, this prehistoric civilization of more than 10,000 years old really exists, what will it develop under the sea?
"Aquaman" Seven Seas Council Chamber
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > does Atlantis exist</h1>?
In fact, except for Plato's Dialogues, there is not a single record of "Atlantis" in the documents of the entire ancient Greek civilization.
It is precisely for this reason that even in the ancient West, scholars did not believe in the existence of this powerful empire, let alone bother to examine it.
Atlantis before the sinking in Aquaman
It was not until the rise of archaeology in the 19th century that people's curiosity about ancient civilizations ignited people's curiosity, so that the study of Atlantis increased.
Among them, various speculations of brain holes have also appeared:
Atlantis was an alien civilization;
Atlantis is the Garden of Eden in the Bible;
The ancient Egyptian civilization was founded by the Atlanteans;
The Azores and the Canary Islands on the Atlantic Ocean are remnants of Atlantis;
The Maya and Aztecs of Central America were descendants of the Atlanteans;
Atlantis has become an undersea civilization, just under the "Bermuda Triangle"...
Despite all this speculation, so far archaeologists have not found any artifacts that may be related to Atlantis, let alone ancient ruins that are more than 10,000 years old and conform to plato's description of the level of technology.
All these results make plato's description of the possibility of atlantis even smaller.
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The more mysterious the more fascinating
The underwater world like Atlantis, precisely because of its mystery, attracts more people to pay attention to, satisfying everyone's curiosity and sense of achievement of decryption, and the same is true for most people's ocean world enlightenment "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
In 1870, the French writer Jules Verne created the marine science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", which was warmly praised by readers as soon as it came out. It continued to sell well for the next 150 years. For many people's childhood, it opened the door to the yearning for the ocean.
"Every time I ask my child where she remembers to travel, she always says the beach." I believe that many parents will have resonance with this sentence.
As mentioned at the beginning, the sea has already left a deep imprint on our brains, and children also naturally like the sea. The vast and mysterious sea is also the first stop for children to explore the world.