How Santorini May Be The Source Of The Atlantis Legend | Blowing Up History 

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Makes sense. Huge volcanic eruption where a famous city/port was. Plato writes about there being nothing but a giant void where the city once was-as though it sank into the ocean

7:52 this man is literally piloting the sub with a Playstation controller 😂

Sitting in Santorini right now with the volcano right in front of me and watching this. I visited the prehistoric site yesterday. I’m not really convinced this is Atlantis, but very impressive place nonetheless just knowing what happened here in 1650bc.

I used to think the Atlantis was in the eye of the sahara but Santorini is more plausable, due to the unavoidable traces of civilization.

I think not only erased Thera from the face of Earth but the entire Minoan culture, the most advanced of its time.

This Beautiful island has a very long history, like all other Greek islands.

Didn’t mention the 500 foot tsunami that swept over Crete and Turkey

How tf does one shit in that???

For years, I already believed that Santorini is the location of Atlantis. They found some evidence at south part of the island. What I can't understand is why don't they search the bottom of body water around the volcano inside the island, with the use of underwater robot. They would find something if they do that.

I would love it if we knew where and if Atlantis was located, and Santorini's Volcanic incident does sort of fit the mold, however... Wouldn't they have mentioned the whole explosive Volcano thing in the description on how Atlantis sank? I have this issue with Camelot as well, being in Tintagel England, I figure that somewhere in the tales of Arthur, they would have mentioned that it was a coastal Town/city? I, personally, hope that these places existed, and from what we know, many fables and myths are based off of real events and things. I guess it is a process of elimination that would be useful here, is there any reason why Santorini could NOT be Atlantis?

This place is on the bucket list

Never knew you could use an xbox controller for that

There is a crude Santorini fresco that shows a large middle island with buildings on it. That island would've been completely destroyed by the eruption. That's as close as were gonna get to a real "Atlantis" like city on an island that old and also that advanced

Just for the record, there is no mention of an 'eruption' nor 'volcano' or 'caldera' in the Timaeus or Critias.

I think Plato created a moral story, loosely based on real life. If you approach it from that perspective, you won't waste your time looking for things that don't exist. Now of course you can search for that "real life" and if you find it, don't expect it to fit exactly with a legend or story.

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Amazing....

Now you know that toilet is missing something in that recreation. Lmao

The world is full of mystery.

Sounds like modern living, without all that tech

How many times can they say in "is Santorini the lost city of Atlantis?" Must be 10+ times in a 9 minute video.

That’s AMAZING!!!!!!

One of the excavated buildings on the south side of the island has a wall fresco with a map of the island that clearly is an ancient depiction of the true layout of Atlantis, drawn by the ancient hand and unmolested by myth and modern speculation. I believe that this fresco alone puts to bed the theories that Atlantis could have been anywhere else, and further excavations will eventually prove that this is the site of the city.

Beautiful place. Definitely on the bucket list

So many strange events recorded in the Middle East and attributed to God by the local people was just a volcanic eruption. Pellegrino's book Unearthing Atlantis is a fascinating read and explains a lot of mysterious historical events.

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The things she thinks are steps are a quarry it’s plain as day 🤷🏻‍♂️

if the volcaon caused a 200 foot thick layer of ash to rain down on and around the island, that wouldve covered any submerged ruins too. youd need something like sonar to get through the layers of ash and detect ruins.

The latest research now shoes that Santorini was part of a much larger island that was covered (submerged) by the rising sea levels due to the glacier melt of the end of the last ice age 10k years ago.

You think Plato didn't know where Santorini was when he lived right next door? And also said it existed beyond the pillars of Hercules. Doggerland is a better candidate.

7:52 - Dude is using a Playstation Dual Shock controller to pilot the submarine 😂

Finally some people get it

Really poorly edited video, all of a sudden at 2.25 it's "the eruption", which eruption/volcano ?

Want to know about Atlantis, read The Exiles of the Chapel "Os Exilados da Capela" (only in Portuguese).

It could also be the source of the story about events in Egypt, affecting Egypt, and the hebrews move to Sinai

Usually when civilizations were advanced back thousands of year's ago left their homes because of the growth of the civilization. What I mean is the bigger the population the more resources they would burn threw. So something that may of been sustainable for example 1,000 people, in 20 years when it's 5,000 might not be enough. So most civilizations moved due to lack of resources. It's hard to picture these day's because it's evident that thousands of year's later without human contact, the place itself heals with new vegetation and wildlife. But it's hard to say back then it wasn't bare because of the growth of population. There's also other scenarios such as natural disasters like Pompeii volcano eruption that in cased it's people in hot ash which preserved their bodies for researchers today to have better understandings of how those people ate and lived back then. There's other civilizations that had the land change to where their cities are under water now exc... It's really hard to pin point exactly what happened with all locations found outside of what was left behind in scrolls or books. But it's highly likely they ran out of resources like the Aztec's, Inca's and Mayan's once did as well as others. It's pretty cool with the technology these day's that we can have better guesses to what really happened because honestly we will never know, unless we were there lol. All we know is Persians, Roman's exc.. could of found this place and took the people or killed them off. So we really never know.

Xbox controller @7:52 ?

Add subtitles please

The Richat Structure

The people that perished were the Minoans of Crete. 💁🏾‍♂️

Greece what a beautiful country you are with all these great civilizations!!!

Of course Santorini is modern day Atlantis, where else would it have been.

I've always felt the legend of Atlantis is a combined human memory of when the major melt of the last ice age drastically increased sea levels swallowing islands and coastal cities and pushing everyone further and further inland. Most of human civilization is on coastlines so I'm sure that sea level rise wiped out most advanced cultures on Earth. I mean let's say something crazy happened now and wiped out the majority of civilization, it'd take us thousands of years to reclaim the level of technology we have now and 2000 yrs from now the tribal and village ppl would tell legends of a cataclysmic event and horribly mess up tales passed down of the technology we once had and modern civilization would just be a legend and probably assumed it was all in 1 city rather than spread out globally etc.

Certainly interesting, but the Richat structure matches much better.

Nevermind the ~8000 year discrepancy between the date for this volcanic mediterranean shit heap and Plato's given date for Atlantis.

She needs to get ,"drain the oceans "programme ,over there

Not to pull your tale but I know the map you see I have the acient map on rock but with artistic small detail to great detail.

Can u make minoan civilization

I know you guys want Atlantis to be a alien civilization with high technology and all that but all evidence points to Santorini, it all points to this, there are even murals showing the original island being a round island with everything Plato said…

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I hear their goat meat is unrivaled.

The land did not sink under the waves as even at 3000 ya the sea level was still rising after the lowest level, during the Ice Age, was a minimum of 130 metres below the current level of the seas and ocean.

Undoubtedly

I don't know if Thera (Santorini) was the Atlantis. But one thing I know, if Thera erupts that big again, say good bye to Greece, western Türkiye, Sothern Italy and Balkans.

It’s not, too small, wrong location, not old enough, not advanced enough, not under water. Here is a clue, Isostatic depression in mid Atlantic range disappears in the the post glacier rebound 11,000 years ago.

Thousand years older than roman Pompeii

The fact that a hypothetical thought experiment between ancient philosophers turned into this goofy myth about Atlantis, being shown on the Discovery channel is just baffling. Basically the same mermaid nonsense from years back.

7:52 Playstation!

Atlantis was the name the Egyptians gave it. Atlantis was actually the Minoan civilization

Haha I'm early! heart this now Discovery

HILARIOUS 'The Greek island of Santorini'. Mussolini couldn't let it go and neither can sloppy research. The island was always THERA until it was Latinized by invaders to a new name- Santorini. Greece RESTORED the historic name and it is officially THIRA- ENGLISH 'THERA' No map in Greece says 'Santorini' -

I can tell you who built Atlantis and when, who then took Atlantis in 2445BC and became the Sea Peoples that dominated the Mediterranean and when the volcano blew where the survivors went to.

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The first thing to realize is that Plato's description of Atlantis is 3rd hand evidence at least. Solon is told the story by Egyptian Priest. The Names used are not the original names but names used by Egyptians. Solon then changed those names to Greek names. We are told this by Plato. The person telling this was 10 years old when he heard the story and he heard the story from a 90 year old relative of his. Notes were taken about the story as it was intended to be a play or drama. The information given is not reliable. Maybe the story is true but was the Island called Atlantis. It is possible that certain details could be wrong. What if greater than should be between Africa and Asia? What if a zero was added and it is 1000 years not 10000 years? We are told that Atlantis was at war with Athens and Egypt. This war could refer to the Minitour legend and Athens having to send tribute to King Minos? At the time of the Thera eruption Egypt was partly occupied by the Hyksos. Were the Hyksos allied with Atlantis? The war chariot was unknown to the Egyptians till it was introduce to them by the Hyksos. As per Plato the Atlanteans had 10000 chariots which they would have used against Egypt but the chariot is unknown to them till the coming of the Hyksos. The Hyksos are driven out of Egypt by Ahmos c1550-1525. The Thera uruption occurred around c1600. King Minus is linked to the Minoan's which declined as a cavillation from c1450. These events I suggest link Atlantis to Thera and Crete

Town of Fira as well the boxing boys fishermen

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9000 months instead 9000 years..?? Was Sonchis of Sais's "year" really a "month" ...?? If that was the case, he'd be referring to 750 years previously. However, Egypt did use Solar years at the time of Solon for civil use - details below (source: wiki). The ancient Egyptian calendar - a civil calendar - was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. It consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days. The last five days of the year corresponded to the birthdays of five deities: Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth, and Nephthys. The three seasons corresponded to the cycle of the Nile and agriculture. New Year's day was on July 19 and marked the beginning of the first season, akhet, which was the time of the flooding of the Nile.

The truth is revealed for All to see in the end.

The most likely source of all the events that occurred around Mosses

Cold on the Med!?!

Call it by its GREEK name "THIRA"

That cold in Aegean Sea?

The Richat was Atlantis. The dots have been connected.

The Richat Structure was Atlantis.

Papnikolau????....... isnt that what a woman does for a checkup???

Yeah you'd like to believe that's where Atlantis is but I'm sure Graham Hancock could prove more in why it isn't

Plato didn't exactly say that tho'

A.g. galoulopnos douma refound Atlantis??

What about the Eye Of The Sahara ? Thought they said it might be that seems more close to Plato's description

Is Avaris

Santorini wasn't Atlantis. It was the lost Minoan civilization. Atlantis laid beyond the pillars of Hercules. Today that's the Straites of Gobraltar. Azores recently found a group of underwater pyramids. And where is the 9 islands of Azores? Beyond the pillars of Hercules

The biggest issue with santorini being atlantis is that it doesnt match the dates given for atlantis and its destruction.

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From other sources I have read, Plato's writings of Atlantis was more a morality tale possibly based on the stories of this cataclysm passed down over the thousand or so years from the occurance to Plato's time. As the Mediterranean human population grew and spread, the location of Atlantis moved further west until it's location was outside the Mediterranean altogether and into the Atlantic Ocean. Logically, the Thera/Santorini eruption, which I believe was a 7 on the Volcano Explosive Index would have been something (a super volcanic eruption) that would be well remembered via the stories passed down over time. Unlike the people of Pompeii, the people of Thera had plently of warning, a couple of months I if I remember, so packed up what they could and moved elsewhere to safety. There have been no human remains found during excavations and few pieces of valuable jewelery and other personal belongings. Santorini is on my bucket list!

The Richat/Atlantis observations blow this hypothesis "out of the water", so to speak. All the google earth images coming to light showing ancient human habitation on it's rings are intriguing as well.

The Pillars of Hercules are depicted in the Thera Akrotiri frescoes, the two statues on the left, at the entrance to the moat surrounding the lava dome that the city was built on. The myth of the Minotaur derived from the volcanic tremors and fissures beneath the city, the noxious gasses asphyxiating those youths who would venture beneath as sacrifices. Later, Greeks told tales of the arrogant Atlantean people who were destroyed by the Olympic deity Poseidon, repeated to this day, and again in this video. The ~ VEI7 cataclysm that was Thera devastated the eastern Mediterranean, sterilizing the region, forcing the survivors to seek refuge beyond, sailing there as Sea Peoples, Philistines, Phoenicians, chronicled by the Egyptians, who warred with them. The bas reliefs at Medinet Habu depicting the Pharaoh Ramesses III's foes, who apparently, lost every battle as they advanced south on the Nile delta. Their descendants built a civilization that spanned the North African coastline, and who, fourteen centuries later, would call themselves Carthaginians. Great gold treasures rest beneath the volcanic ash floor of the Aegean Sea surrounding the caldera that is Santorini, deep beneath, tossed there by the massive explosion, likely far beyond Krakatoa's magnitude. [ v = Xy_OrvG3Tec ] Thera Eruption Tsunami simulation A volcanic explosive eruption of Biblical proportions, triggering consequences chronicled in the records of Mycenae, Egypt, Hittites, Israelites. Likely caused a global cooling period, attenuation of agricultural growth, population decline. [ v = bRcu-ysocX4 ] 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed The story chronicled by Solon. [ philipharland_kam/Blog/2022/07/egyptian-wisdom-plato-on-solon-the-egyptian-priest-and-atlantis-mid-fourth-century-bce ] Did Atlantis sink beneath the sea ? According to the Egyptians, it did.

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The real story of the Minoans and Thera is much more interesting than this Atlantis bullshit.

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The truth is that Atlantis likely never existed. At least not the city of myth. . That being said The cities or civilizations that the myth is based on likely did exist and its likely Atlantis is one or several coastal cities or island nations that was destroyed by a disaster. There are several and all should be considered. In Spain in the marshes south west to the coast there is possible evidence of a city that used to exist there. Apparently it may have been destroyed by a tsunami. The area in particular is prone to those tsunamis it also contains nearby rocks that is described in the Atlantis myth. The particular city is also in some biblical myths. It may have been a naval power as well given the Atlantians supposedly had a powerful navy and a powerful navy would need access to plenty of resources yet far enough away to not be threatened by reprisal. . In Africa the Eye of the Sahara has the classic rings of the city, is massive and has marine life or something similar scattered throughout the rings and the surrounding desert indicating it was a shallow sea or at least had water going to the sea. A overview of google maps around the structure shows massive amounts of evidence of Tsunami damage heading towards the Western Coast of Africa near the structure. Apparently there are stories of the eye of Africa as being home to a civilization from various cultures especially the egyptians although the structure that apparently contained the story has long been destroyed or forgotten. Of course there is Santirini and it has direct evidence. I believe all 3 have contributed to the Atlantis Myth. The one in Spain being a major trading hub and likely was a naval power and having the classic stones that built the city. It might even be the source for the special bronze. The One in Africa fits the circles and being in Africa had elephants and vast plains which could have contributed to the myth, along with the mountains. Santirini of course being a very advanced maritime trading power and technologically advanced for the time along with the myth of bulls in the city. I think they are all Atlantis. At least parts of the myth. Remember this line. (History becomes legend, legend becomes myth. ) All myths have a element of truth.

What a poor understanding of Plato, and the History of Atlantis

No it’s the Richat structure ! :)

OMG This is too stupid for words. SMFH If you want to see Atlantis, all you have to do is look at (the name of the search engine with the map app that FascistTube WILL NOT allow me to post the name of. This is beyond ABSURD) You can see it at the bottom of the Atlantic, EXACTLY where Plato said. Due west of the Pillars of Heracles (Straights of Gibraltar), underneath the Azore Islands. You can see it plain as day.

Damn this is ridiculous. A city 500 years older than Plato who wrote of a "continent" beyond gibraltar going back millennia before his birth makes this just a comedy of imaginary playtime for people who actually know better.

Plato said it was past the pillars of Hercules aka the strait of Gibraltar so wouldn't that mean it must be in the Atlantic?

Ad-land-is In Quran it’s mentioned about a civilization named People of AD they lived in Mediterranean region

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