Expert puts
Atlantis on Cyprus coast
NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN
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AN AMERICAN
researcher on the trail of the lost city of Atlantis will today
announce detailed evidence of man-made structures submerged in the sea
between Cyprus and Syria.
A spokesman for Robert Sarmast, who is convinced the fabled city lurks
in the watery depths off the Mediterranean island, said yesterday:
"Something has been found to indicate very strongly that there
are man-made structures in this area."
The mystery of Atlantis, both whether it existed and why it
disappeared, has fired the imagination of explorers for decades. Many
think the ancient civilisation was destroyed in a massive flood, a
cataclysm which many ancient cultures believe occurred around 9,000
BC.
Greek mythology says Atlantis was a powerful nation whose residents
were so corrupted by greed and power that Zeus destroyed it.
Theories place Atlantis either somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, as the
Greek island of Santorini, off the Celtic Ridge of Britain, or even
further afield in the South China Sea.
Sarmast’s theory is that Cyprus is the pinnacle of Atlantis, with
the rest of it about one mile below sea level.
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