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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Monday, June 07, 2004Science fun: Satellite images 'show Atlantis'BBC: "A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the 'island' of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. The research has been reported as an ongoing project in the online edition of the journal Antiquity ... 'Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was surrounded by several circular structures - concentric rings - some consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos concentric rings just as Plato described,' Dr Kuehne told BBC News Online. Dr Kuehne, of the University of Wuppertal in Germany, believes the rectangular features could be the remains of a 'silver' temple devoted to the sea god Poseidon and a 'golden' temple devoted to Cleito and Poseidon - all described in Plato's dialogue Critias." [ Posted at 11:48 AM | Permalink ]
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