This animation file shows an approximate state of the Mediterranean basin before the great flood, separated from the Atlantic Ocean and spotted with lakes and lagoons.  Atlantis can be seen in the eastern Mediterranean region, surrounded by an inland sea.  The camera zooms westward towards what used to be the Gibraltar dam, which once separated the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, and shows the creation of the Gibraltar Strait as the dam gives way due to violent earthquakes, resulting in a torrential flood that eventually filled up the Mediterranean basin to its present water level.  This massive body of water surging from the Atlantic Ocean covered the rectangular plain of Atlantis and created the physical features of Cyprus as we know it today.

Animation file of the Mediterranean basin flooding.

Produced by Panimation Imagery.

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Atlantis City precinct and the Acropolis Hill

produced by Robert Sarmast.



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