All about Atlantis

The search for Atlantis continues. But should it?

The United Kingdom-based publication The Sun released a report that the lost civilization of Atlantis, a locale Plato believed to have perished suddenly around 12,000 years ago, had been found – and on Google Earth, no less.

The Google Ocean extension showed very interesting grid lines in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 620 miles off the west coast of Africa somewhere near the Canary Islands – which just happened to be the location Plato blabbed about all those years ago.

But sadly, the gridlines happened to be just that – lines used by the program to scour and map out the ocean.

At this point, Atlantis remains undiscovered and a mystery to most people. So why are we so interested it?

How, during an economic disaster that demands our attention, did this story make its way to the forefront?

Probably more than most people, I love world mysteries and tales of suspicious, powerful races now long gone, but the ancient story lacks any evidence that would normally give story like Alantis legs.

At least with UFOs or, heck, even Big Foot, there’s some marginally attractive evidence that would make us think twice.

Not Atlantis.

Not to discredit Plato or anything, but he was the first and only person to ever reference Atlantis during its introduction into the human psyche.

That means every story reported, passage written and discourse held on the subject stems from one man’s writings – writings that scholars aren’t quite sure are fiction or non-fiction, as many look at its creation as Plato’s metaphorical way of depicting ancient Athens.

Yet for some odd reason, people have been obsessed with this mythical locale ever since and if this recent story is any indication, will continue to be so until some answers are given.

It even attracted the Nazis during their reign, as Henirich Himmler had a team thoroughly investigate Tibet in 1938 because the Nazis thought the Aryan race must have begun in Atlantis.

They didn’t find a thing.

At this point, the story of Atlantis has been mutated and riffed so many times that it seems like every time some sort of geological discovery takes place in a body of water, we target in on Atlantis.

It’s near the islands of Santorini in the Mediterranean Sea, somewhere in the North Sea, in the Bermuda Triangle and Antarctica.

If Atlantis is found, I’ll be the first person to admit I was wrong. Sure, a discovery like that could tell us loads about ancient civilizations and open up numerous other research avenues.

It is just difficult to see the value in placing hope of each discovery to this supposedly lost society.

There are surely more important things to be looking for – and definitely more important things to be talking about.