One of the most tantalizing locations for the lost city of Atlantis is in Doggerland, an ancient submerged landmass that once bridged the North and Baltic Seas, connecting what is now Great Britain to mainland Europe during prehistoric times. Archeologists have been lured by fossilized footprints left by our ancestors on the seafloor in addition…
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Search for Atlantis led by Harvard scholars from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
In 1931, an epic search for Atlantis led by Harvard scholars began when the field of ocean science was in it’s infancy. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s oceanographer and founding director, Henry Bryant Bigelow and first mate Columbus Iselin set sail on a 42 day research cruise around the Azores to investigate how strong currents affects aspects of North…
In 2024 Scientists Survey for the lost city of Atlantis in North and Baltic Seas, and in the Pacific Ocean
Earth’s most recent ice age began 115,000 years ago. In it’s peak, 7.7 million more square miles were above water than are today. Many believe humans had architectural skills longer than previously thought—far before agriculture. Could these submerged hunter-gatherer hotspots host a lost civilization? Plato marked the first historical account of a powerful utopian civilization lost to the sea 9,000 years before his own time. Here we are 2,300 years later still wondering. Is Atlantis sleeping below sediment in the Dutch area of today’s North Sea? Or buried by time northwest of the Australian continent?