When you start digging into Hidden History, one of the words that sets alarm bells off is “Atlantis.” For the record, Atlantis has been “found” in the Sahara, in the Mediterranean, off Bimini, in the American Southwest, off Japan, and on the islands of Thera, Crete, and Sardinia among others. More books and webpages are dedicated to Atlantis than to any other aspect of hidden history with the possible exception of UFO’s (ancient astronauts). Maybe it’s time to address this.

Plato spoke of Atlantis as an ancient, highly advanced civilization that grew so powerful that it grew prideful, too. A long war against the peoples of the Mediterranean and a sudden, cataclysmic volcanic eruption and the tsunami it spawned are said to have wiped it out. You can read everything Plato said about Atlantis in just a few minutes. Most people think it was just a story, an allegory, a metaphor. Even his follower, Aristotle, didn’t believe it was true (fair enough: he doubted a few things that ended up being correct). So why is this myth so widespread, so deeply held to by such a wide variety of individuals?

It is all about the mysteries that the Standard Story of history can’t answer. We will look at a lot of these mysteries in the weeks and months ahead. Who designed a battery in Baghdad two thousand years too soon? Who carved and moved the largest cut stones in the world at Baalbek? Why did civilizations suddenly appear on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing many aspects in common? Why is there evidence of massive, sudden, cataclysmic flooding all over the world? (to solve the issue of how the floods occurred in the Pacific, another lost continent is postulated. It is variously called Mu or Lemuria).

Let’s look at the facts. Under the Mediterranean Sea there have already been found around 200 lost cities. Think of that for a moment. Two hundred cities are now completely under water. And not just a few meters off the coast; some are right in the middle of the Sea! Other “port cities” from Portugal to Turkey are now several miles from the sea. It is obvious that in mankind’s history some areas have sunk quite a bit while others rose. Trying to determine which piece of ground rose versus which sea sank (or vice versa) is a real challenge. We find vast areas in Africa, Asia, and the Med where there are layers of volcanic ash covered by fresh water laid sediment. How did this happen? When did it happen? Who were the people who lived in those lost cities?

Uniformitarians rule geology and history. They claim that everything moves very, very slowly. We even have the expression “geologic time” to describe just how slowly things change. Forget the fact, for the moment, that volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens and Krakatoa show us that the topographical map can change overnight… we are told that everything moved from the very simplest stage to the current stage: complex. In geology, history, linguistics, anthropology, and biology, the Theory of Evolution rules regardless of the evidence. Civilization started with ape-like people pounding rocks and gradually developed upward, always upward. The problem is that what we see with our eyes contradicts what we are told in the Standard Story.

Consider the Tasmans. When explorers from the West found Tasmania, a large island off the southeastern coast of Australia, the natives were very, very primitive. They had no writing, very little oral history, and lived in base, brutish conditions. In the centuries since then, we have found that at one time those Tasmanians had a very well developed society complete with a complex language and writing system, widespread trade, and planned towns. Why they degenerated so much over the years has never been understood (theories abound, however, each of which is fought over via the web and in academia). And they are not the only example of a civilized people devolving into a primitive set of tribes. We find others on almost every continent.

So… we have records of advanced civilizations that could do things that still puzzle and stump us. We have no cranes today that could lift the blocks at Baalbek or Teotihuacan, but they cut the blocks, lifted them, and transported them for miles, sometimes across difficult terrain. We find things such as the Phaistos Disk or the Antikythera mechanism and wonder who built such things and how they did that. We have literally tens of thousands of manuscripts and carvings in languages which have never yet been deciphered and we know that we have lost millions more to the armies of Christians and Muslims who destroyed each others’ libraries with glee. A lot of our history is lost to us. The world has obviously undergone tremendous geographical change since man started building cities but we are still spun the same old story that we used to live in caves and we barely stumbled out of the trees around the time the world settled down and… well… not much has happened since. Our Standard Story isn’t designed to create doubt in us but, if it were, it couldn’t do a better job than it is doing now. It is plainly absurd. Couple that with the observations we can make and measure and we can see why some try to solve this dilemma by postulating a single, huge advanced civilization that disappeared in a cataclysm, sending messengers with advanced language and science to the corners of the earth.

I still don’t believe in Atlantis… but I understand why others do. I think the situation is far more complicated than Atlantean theorists believe. Plus, I believe in little things like a Global Flood of Noah and … Well, we have a lot to discuss in the days to come.