Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus

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Summary: Common thread of myths -focal point
Review: Book is very readable. Fascinating to ponder that Eden & Atlantis may be one and the same.Author paints the topic with perspective and logic. Will be interesting to see the results from a few passes of a ship equipped with side scan sonar over this area.

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Summary: For anyone curious about the saga of Atlantis
Review: Discovery Of Atlantis: The Startling Case For The Island Of Cyprus is a fascinating revelation in search of the mystery of fabled Atlantis. Author Robert Sarmast (a Los Angeles based independent researcher and mythologist) combines 50 physical details from Plato's famous narrative with facts about the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus to persuasively pinpoint the legendary land and capital city of Atlantean culture. Point-by-point observations and black-and-white illustrations provocatively drive home the hypothesis in this superb and iconoclastic account that is recommended reading for anyone curious about the saga of Atlantis. Also very highly recommended is the associated website www.DiscoveryofAtlantis.com where dedicated Atlantis enthusiasts will find Robert Sarmast's full-color maps, 3D models, animation files, and Atlantean research updates.

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Summary: State of the Art
Review: I have a knack for finding the truth and the best in books.
So how, with no prior knowledge of Atlantis can I say this is
the best? ...Well, this book is heavily into geology, yet
from the perspective of a spiritual-worldy view; Loving
treatment of the Gods and Goddesses of old, yet also hard boiled
research of the type that lauches huge archaeological expeditions.
A camelhair brush gently sweeps away unprovable superstition
while proving the real with records old and new. Gentle reader,
I know you need only a Hint: This is excellent and will rock your
world!

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Summary: Hidden in plain sight...
Review: Of all the wild attempts to find Atlantis...it seems, according to Sarmast, that the truth has been hidden in plain sight all along...

Believe Plato, he says...he's the man! By taking the ancient Philosopher literally at his word...and following scientific and geological clues (several of which seem quite recent...i.e. the notion of periodic flooding/drought cycles of the Mediterranean Basin) he has methodically come up with what may well be the true solution to this age-old enigma.

Coupled with luck in discovering Russian data that allowed some gorgeous, state-of-the-art maps to be drawn of previously uncharted waters, Sarmast seems to have hit the nail on the head! It's lucid, clear and easy to read...brings in mythology as well as the science... Short of mounting an expedition to Cyprus, it is as comprehensive a picture as we're likely to find. And it just makes a whole lot of sense. One thing is certain...whoever finally does mount an expedition to take a look will have no excuses for missing the mark...if they remember to take this book along as their guide! Fantastic stuff...but this time it really could be true!

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Summary: Hidden in plain sight...
Review: Of all the wild attempts to find Atlantis...it seems, according to Sarmast, that the truth has been hidden in plain sight all along...

Believe Plato, he says...he's the man! By taking the ancient Philosopher literally at his word...and following scientific and geological clues (several of which seem quite recent...i.e. the notion of periodic flooding/drought cycles of the Mediterranean Basin) he has methodically come up with what may well be the true solution to this age-old enigma.

Coupled with luck in discovering Russian data that allowed some gorgeous, state-of-the-art maps to be drawn of previously uncharted waters, Sarmast seems to have hit the nail on the head! It's lucid, clear and easy to read...brings in mythology as well as the science... Short of mounting an expedition to Cyprus, it is as comprehensive a picture as we're likely to find. And it just makes a whole lot of sense. One thing is certain...whoever finally does mount an expedition to take a look will have no excuses for missing the mark...if they remember to take this book along as their guide! Fantastic stuff...but this time it really could be true!

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Robert Sarmast book Discovery of Atlantis is truly a mystery that is unfolding itself leading us to the greatest discovery known to mankind. He has unlocked all of the clues documented by Plato.

This book should be read all interested in Alantis or Eden. The book is easy to read and leads the reader on a most excellent and fascinating literary journey.

Guaranteed to satisify.

Enjoy

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Summary: Intriguing motif
Review: This book favourably impressed me on more than one level. It is well organized and visually appealing.The writing has both down-to-earth and colourful elements, and some pretty high class, scientific/philosophical prose.
I'm no expert on ancient mythology, and initially had only a minor interest in the subject, but I was drawn into the Discovery of Atlantis, and couldn't put it down. I think I have a much better and more realistic understanding of the way things may have been in Atlantis, if it actually existed. I also could not stop thinking about the possibility that all the myths, whether they originate with the Egyptians, Greeks, or Sumerians concerning some kind of exceptional (superhuman) civilization existing in very ancient times, were all talking about the same phenomenon - namely an advanced "Edenic" civilization surrounded by late Stone Age human settlements.

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Summary: Not so fast...
Review: This is a great book, well-written and richly illustrated with 3 D maps and other details, and you can't help but to get carried away by the author's enthusiasm for the find. He proves that there is a sunken area off of Cyprus with a plain that might match the one reputed to be the one in Atlantis (the evidence about the circular city and the Acropolis is less convincing). He also says that tools have been found on Cyrpus that date to 10,000 b.c. All this is really interesting, but I'd like to stress that there have been no ancient ruins found here suggesting the lost civilization so far and that, as of the date of publication, no exploration, perhaps not even any diving has been done in the area. All the coastlines were lower during the last part of the Ice Age and most cities were built by the seas. When the waters rose, they were submerged, were every one of these Atlantis..?

Yet, the biggest problem, not only with this book and others like it is that they try and fit the facts of Plato's narrative to fit their own discovery. Mostly, they mention that no one knows which 'Pillars of Hercules' Plato was talking about (there was more than one, but according to the author, there were several), and that Atlantis was not in the Atlantic. The author mentions that references to the Atlantic were entered into the narrative later (his whole case depends on that), but once again, that is conjecture, like all the disclaimers that have been needed to try and make the case for Santorini/Thera as Atlantis for all these years (the Greeks didn't know how to read Egyptian measurements, which was false, Atlantis was supposed to be in the middle of Libya and Asia, not bigger than it, it didn't sink to the bottom of the sea, it was destroyed in a volcanic blast). All these disclaimers deny the original narrative, the most vivid description on Atlantis, which states clearly, more than once, that , before being destroyed, the Atlanteans swept through the Mediterranean from their base in the Atlantic and made war on all the people there. Plato clearly places Atlantis, not only beyond the Pillars of Hercules, but in the Atlantic Ocean, anyone who tries to place it anywhere else and made a discovery has probably found something else. Thera, Crete, Troy, Sardinia, and now Cyrpus have all been mentioned as possible locations for Atlantis, but they are all in the Mediterranean. Whatever these civilizations actually called themselves, it couldn't have been Atlantis. The name Atlantis isn't even Greek, by the way, it comes from the Americas, so the Greeks must have gotten it from someplace else.

In order to make their own case, these books too easily try to dismiss the Atlantic, especially in the Azores area as a site for Atlantis. The author says that this island chain is too far away from the Mediterranean to have affected it , which also assumes that ancient people didn't travel the sea. Well, according to the legend, the people of Atlantis were, over all things a sea-faring people. You can't take some parts of the legend to support your own thesis and then ignore/discount others. He also says that 'the 'Azores theory sunk beneath the waves of public opinion.' No, it hasn't! While the general public might not know the role the Azores have played in the Atlantis mystique, ask them where Atlantis was and, if they believe it existed at all, they will place it in the Atlantic. It's a logical assumption, why else was it called Atlantis..? You wouldn't call something in Thera or Troy or Cyprus Atlantis, you would name it that if it were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! I would like to see the same type of 3 D maps and diagrams the author has in his book done for all the island chains one finds in the Atlantic, then see what we would find. You would find that the Canaries, the Azores and Madeiras all expand in length, might also find areas that one has never even thought of before - one of these areas might well be the actual Atlantis. The fact remains while researchers blandly ignore the idea of a sunken land mass in the Atlantic, no expedition has ever been made to find Atlantis there at all. We have sonar readings and that's it.

I hope it doesn't sound like I panned this book. It is very entertaining and it raises some very interesting questions, I would like to see what happens if more research is done there. Then, too, I'm also waiting to hear more about the sunken city found off the coast of Cuba, the sunken island just off the Straits of Gibralter and whether there will ever be an expedition to Antarctica to see if there is indeed a lost civilization beneath the ice. All of these are Atlantis, too, or at least as much, if not more than Cyrpus is. A shame someone can't research them all at once, then post all the daily results on a website. Researchers, though, will never find the real Atlantis unless they stop looking to other parts of the world for it, and start looking where Plato placed it - in the Atlantic. It is a big ocean, the light is bad down there, but it's time to start searching for it....

Rating:
Summary: Not so fast...
Review: This is a great book, well-written and richly illustrated with 3 D maps and other details, and you can't help but to get carried away by the author's enthusiasm for the find. He proves that there is a sunken area off of Cyprus with a plain that might match the one reputed to be the one in Atlantis (the evidence about the circular city and the Acropolis is less convincing). He also says that tools have been found on Cyrpus that date to 10,000 b.c. All this is really interesting, but I'd like to stress that there have been no ancient ruins found here suggesting the lost civilization so far and that, as of the date of publication, no exploration, perhaps not even any diving has been done in the area. All the coastlines were lower during the last part of the Ice Age and most cities were built by the seas. When the waters rose, they were submerged, were every one of these Atlantis..?

Yet, the biggest problem, not only with this book and others like it is that they try and fit the facts of Plato's narrative to fit their own discovery. Mostly, they mention that no one knows which 'Pillars of Hercules' Plato was talking about (there was more than one, but according to the author, there were several), and that Atlantis was not in the Atlantic. The author mentions that references to the Atlantic were entered into the narrative later (his whole case depends on that), but once again, that is conjecture, like all the disclaimers that have been needed to try and make the case for Santorini/Thera as Atlantis for all these years (the Greeks didn't know how to read Egyptian measurements, which was false, Atlantis was supposed to be in the middle of Libya and Asia, not bigger than it, it didn't sink to the bottom of the sea, it was destroyed in a volcanic blast). All these disclaimers deny the original narrative, the most vivid description on Atlantis, which states clearly, more than once, that , before being destroyed, the Atlanteans swept through the Mediterranean from their base in the Atlantic and made war on all the people there. Plato clearly places Atlantis, not only beyond the Pillars of Hercules, but in the Atlantic Ocean, anyone who tries to place it anywhere else and made a discovery has probably found something else. Thera, Crete, Troy, Sardinia, and now Cyrpus have all been mentioned as possible locations for Atlantis, but they are all in the Mediterranean. Whatever these civilizations actually called themselves, it couldn't have been Atlantis. The name Atlantis isn't even Greek, by the way, it comes from the Americas, so the Greeks must have gotten it from someplace else.

In order to make their own case, these books too easily try to dismiss the Atlantic, especially in the Azores area as a site for Atlantis. The author says that this island chain is too far away from the Mediterranean to have affected it , which also assumes that ancient people didn't travel the sea. Well, according to the legend, the people of Atlantis were, over all things a sea-faring people. You can't take some parts of the legend to support your own thesis and then ignore/discount others. He also says that 'the 'Azores theory sunk beneath the waves of public opinion.' No, it hasn't! While the general public might not know the role the Azores have played in the Atlantis mystique, ask them where Atlantis was and, if they believe it existed at all, they will place it in the Atlantic. It's a logical assumption, why else was it called Atlantis..? You wouldn't call something in Thera or Troy or Cyprus Atlantis, you would name it that if it were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! I would like to see the same type of 3 D maps and diagrams the author has in his book done for all the island chains one finds in the Atlantic, then see what we would find. You would find that the Canaries, the Azores and Madeiras all expand in length, might also find areas that one has never even thought of before - one of these areas might well be the actual Atlantis. The fact remains while researchers blandly ignore the idea of a sunken land mass in the Atlantic, no expedition has ever been made to find Atlantis there at all. We have sonar readings and that's it.

I hope it doesn't sound like I panned this book. It is very entertaining and it raises some very interesting questions, I would like to see what happens if more research is done there. Then, too, I'm also waiting to hear more about the sunken city found off the coast of Cuba, the sunken island just off the Straits of Gibralter and whether there will ever be an expedition to Antarctica to see if there is indeed a lost civilization beneath the ice. All of these are Atlantis, too, or at least as much, if not more than Cyrpus is. A shame someone can't research them all at once, then post all the daily results on a website. Researchers, though, will never find the real Atlantis unless they stop looking to other parts of the world for it, and start looking where Plato placed it - in the Atlantic. It is a big ocean, the light is bad down there, but it's time to start searching for it....

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Summary: Could this be the end for the search of Atlantis?
Review: This is a truly great book to read, and the assumptions drawn by the author are well, pretty well explained and easy to grasp too. As the author mentions(and i'm in agreement with), he has managed to place 43 out of the 45 indications of the overal puzzle, making his theory a strong candidate on the search for Atlantis issue. It would be really great news if it turns out that Atlantis really existed after all, and it took a great amount of faith to discover it, just like in the case of Troy.

So let's wait for the 30th of April to come, when the expedition begins, and see what turns out. Even if nothing is found, let's not lose hope that someday Atlantis will reveal itself, in the Atlantic, in the Mediterannean, or anywhere else.

PS: Reviewer (...) mentioned that "The name Atlantis isn't even Greek, (...), so the Greeks must have gotten it from someplace else." This is false; the name 'Atlantis', as well 'Atlantic', are greek derivatives of the name 'Atlas', the titan (elder god) that after the defeat of the titans to the olympian gods, was punished by holding the heavens on his shoulders aeternally, according to hellenic mythology. The prefix of his name was used to denote something of colossal size.