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ATLANTIS REVEALED

A documentary that solves Plato's two thousand year old mystery, with a Matching Site, DNA Evidence.

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A documentary that solves Plato's two thousand year old mystery, with a Matching Site, DNA Evidence.

A documentary that solves Plato's two thousand year old mystery, with a Matching Site, DNA Evidence.

A documentary that solves Plato's two thousand year old mystery, with a Matching Site, DNA Evidence.

A documentary that solves Plato's two thousand year old mystery, with a Matching Site, DNA Evidence.

Christos A. Djonis
Christos A. Djonis
Christos A. Djonis
Christos A. Djonis
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The Author/ Producer

"Hello! My name is Christos A. Djonis. I am the author of the recently released book "Uchronia? Atlantis Revealed," and the producer of the upcoming feature-length documentary, "Atlantis Revealed!".

Before discussing further the upcoming film, first and foremost, I must confess that when I first started the research for my latest book (more of a passion project that touches on several controversial topics), I never in a million years thought I'd be able to locate a site that in every way will match Plato's Atlantis. Even later, more than two years into the project, when eventually all clues brought me to look for Atlantis within the Mediterranean Sea, still, in all honesty I was not sure where to look for it.

I remember thinking, if Plato's given chronology on Atlantis coincided with the rise of the oceans at the end of the last Ice Age, then, this island could have gotten lost during the rapid rise of the Mediterranean,  just prior to the flooding of the Black Sea and roughly 10,000 years ago. If so, then Plato's lost island should only be 400 feet beneath the waves and not few miles deep, as some researchers theorized in the past. 

The search was lengthy, challenging, and at times I felt it would never come to fruition. Even when I spotted my first real clue, an underwater plateau around the Cyclades Islands, I did not fully understand the significance of the find until several hours later, when I was able to outline its entire shape. Only then I realized that the submerged super-island I just found, formed by the Cyclades Plateau, perfectly matched Plato's description Atlantis. The chronology, every physical aspect of the topography, the volcanic geology, the flora and fauna in that period, the island's destruction by a "great flood", archaeological remnants of an unknown prehistoric civilization in the immediate area, all pointed to a genuine discovery. And that was not all".

I INVITE YOU TO CONNECT WITH US AND SUPPORT THE MAKING OF THE DOCUMENTARY THAT WILL FINALLY UNRAVEL PLATO'S TWO THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD- PUZZLE!


Why look for Atlantis in the Mediterranean Sea and not in the Atlantic Ocean? What was the large island/ continent Plato mentioned across the Atlantic? Is it possible that remnants of Atlantis were left behind?

For answers to these and other questions, please look for "Uchronia? Atlantis Revealed", the book behind the upcoming documentary (available at Amazon and major booksellers around the world).



The Book

At around 360 BC, in his dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, the Greek philosopher Plato introduced an incredible story, a tale of an enigmatic island civilization which since captivated the imagination of every generation that followed. This was the story of Atlantis, one of the most advanced societies of the ancient world, a prehistoric civilization capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean more than 10,000 years ago.

Today, regardless of the many archaeological discoveries which support Plato's claim of such advanced culture (like that of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the Lost city of Ubar in the Arabian Peninsula, the submerged city off the coast of west India in the Gulf of Cambay, and others), many skeptics choose to point to the several inconsistencies in Plato's story (like Athens or Egypt did not exist ten millennia ago, when according to Plato the story took place) and quickly label Atlantis as a myth. Are the skeptics correct though?

Just as in the case of Atlantis, for several centuries we thought that the city of Troy, the centerpiece in Homer’s epic saga, was also a myth. All that changed obviously when Heinrich Schliemann, an amateur archaeologist, found Troy in 1868 while following location tips from Homer’s book Iliad. In the case of Troy, after ditching all the details regarding beauty queens, demigods, Trojan horses and scaled back the armies to more rational levels, it was ultimately acknowledged by the scientific community that the setting as well as the bulk of this story was real. Essentially, Homer’s entirely fictional story, which he filled with principles and common elements from his own time, apparently revolved around a tangible setting and a real incident which took place nearly six centuries before his time. Of course, Troy is not an isolated example. Our recorded history is full of stories that contain serious discrepancies and circumstances where once mythological places, or "fairy tales", in the end turned out to be true!

So, a fundamental question remains. Was Atlantis simply a cautionary tale or is it possible Plato crafted a tale based on a real setting and a prehistoric civilization known to ancient Greeks, while he supplemented all the “modern” details as Homer did few hundred years before him?

If true, as in the case of Troy, the true-part of this story should not rest in the story plot, but in the detection and authentication of Plato’s “lost island.”

Locating a matching site, along with signs of an advanced civilization in the immediate area, should be the first step in solving this mystery.

Indeed, a recent discovery of a sunken island that perfectly matches Plato's Atlantis, found in the right period as well as the right location (more on the location later), if anything, it further suggests that Plato based his story on real a prehistoric civilization, which in order to successfully communicate some of his philosophical ideas (divine vs. human, ideal societies vs. corrupt,) he filled with familiar matter and details from later times.

So, unlike earlier theories and faulty interpretations of the story which place Atlantis all over the Atlantic Ocean, in Spain, off the coast of Cyprus, at the Azores Islands, in Antarctica and other places (without ever offering a matching site), the recent discovery shows that Plato's Atlantis was a prehistoric super-island in the Aegean Sea at the doorstep of Greece, and not in some far-away location. Even when setting aside all the other clues that lead to the same conclusion, Plato's own words “your State (Greece) stayed the course of a mighty host,” clearly suggests that Atlantis, as a “host” of mainland Greece, stood at Greece's doorstep and ultimately controlled the path, or better yet, the waters leading into the Aegean Sea. True enough! As it turns out, ten millennia ago, with sea levels lower by 400 feet, the modern day Cyclades Islands were connected by a flat terrain, today known as the "Cyclades Plateau". This massive plateau formed a super-island that when comparing to Atlantis, in every way it matches Plato's description (see Plato's quotation and image below). If Atlantis was ever real, this must have been the place Plato was talking about. Not only the geography is identical, the volcanic geology is there, but when further comparing to Plato's account, the flora and fauna, including elephants, chronologically match the topography. How is this possible? To be able to locate a place that slightly resembles Plato’s Atlantis is extremely difficult, to produce one where all the physical aspects perfectly match, is virtually impossible, unless of course the proposed site is the real thing. When up until today, to prove Atlantis real, the most difficult task was to find a place that matched Plato's description, now that we have such a place, how can skeptics explain this finding away? Not only we now have a matching site but relics from an unknown pre-Bronze civilization in the immediate area further reinforce this discovery. 

An island comprising mostly of mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south extending in one direction three thousand stadia (about 555 square kilometers), but across the center island it was two thousand stadia (about 370 square kilometers). Fifty stadia (9km) from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides…broke it off all round about . . . the central island itself was five stades in diameter (about 0.92 km).

  

Image from the book "Uchronia?-Atlantis Revealed"

                            

The Island of Santorini, present day (Left).  Santorini prior to the eruption of 1600BC, based on a 1991 study by Druitt and Francaviglia (Right).

Of course, as skeptics often do, without ever attempting to explain away the matching site, many will quickly point that according to Plato (see Plato's text below) Atlantis was somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and not in the Mediterranean. Was it though? Can this be true, or is it possible that the real meaning of the story could have been lost during the original translation from ancient Greek to English?

Before analyzing the text below, those not familiar with Greek, must be reminded that the syntactic structure of the language that Plato used has a very different structure than the English language we often use to translate it. What often seems strange to those who first try to learn Greek is the inversion of the possessive adjective in respect to the noun.  Similarly, text inversions like these may also exist in the sequence of entire sentences. For example, in an independent clause, an item which is stressed, i.e. which is uttered with emphasis or is contrastive, in ancient Greek it generally goes at the beginning of the clause, rarely at the end. Middle position is occupied by an item receiving no particular emphasis. In a series of clauses in a sentence, though, as in the translated passage below, a prominent item goes at the beginning of its clause if it relates to the previous context, and at the end if it relates to the following one (look at first sentence of the first paragraph, and the last sentence of the second one).

For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot.
(For) the Ocean that was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say “the Pillars of Heracles” [Strait of Gibraltar] there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses the veritable ocean ...

In this case, and contrary to what many automatically assume, Plato does not point to the direction of Atlantis across the ocean. As explained earlier, the phrase “your state stayed the course of a mighty host”, at the beginning of the clause, is where the emphasis should be placed. While in this part Plato reveals the very close proximity of Atlantis to Greece, in the rest of the sentence he poetically describes the might of Atlantis and its capacity that stretched around the world to a “distant point” and another continent across the ocean. Of course, once he illustrates their incredible capability, he then describes their audacious and warlike character and their plans to “advance against the whole Europe and Asia”.

The same rule applies when analyzing the remaining text. In this case the revelation of a continent across the ocean is not where the emphasis should be placed. As explained earlier, in a series of clauses in a sentence, prominent items usually are either placed at the beginning or at the end of their clause. The middle part of a sentence is occupied by items that should receive less emphasis. According to this rule, and in this particular case, the explanation of how Atlantians were able to reach the continent across the ocean, at the end of the clause, is where the emphasis should be placed and not on the continent itself that is mentioned earlier (the part that many automatically are drawn to). Not knowing where the emphasis on a clause should be placed, can cause a great deal of confusion, as often and depending where the emphasis goes, two separate meanings can emerge out of a single paragraph. Actually, when it comes to ancient Greek, sometimes even a single comma can cause a short sentence to have two different meanings. Such example is a famous quote from the oracle of Delphi. "Go, return not die in war", can have two entirely opposite meanings, depending on where a missing comma is supposed to be - before or after - the word "not".

In short, when a story from ancient Greek is translated to English, the translated sentences may require proper "re-positioning" in order for an English reader to make better sense of it. For instance, when understanding the syntactic structure of the Greek language and how to "read it" correctly, Plato’s second paragraph above, to an English reader should appear as follows:

(For) the Ocean that was at that time navigable;  and it was possible for travelers of that time to cross from it (from Atlantis) to the other islands, and from these islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses the veritable ocean....  for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say “the Pillars of Hercules,” there lay a continent which was larger than Libya and Asia together.

When seen in this context, the continent across the ocean is no longer the place of origin for Atlantians, but a destination. Here, Plato simply describes the might of Atlantis by depicting their incredible capability to travel half way around the world. He explains that via island hopping (most likely from Scotland, to the Faroe Islands, to Iceland and then to Greenland), the Atlantians were able to reach another grand island/continent on the other side of the Atlantic, one across from the "Pillars of Hercules". Which other continent is on the opposite side of the Atlantic across from the Strait of Gibraltar? The American continent, of course! It was the American continent that Plato said was larger than Libya and Asia put together and not that of Atlantis, as many wrongly had interpreted and even to this day continue to interpret.

Those unconvinced that the ancient Greeks could have known of the American continent around the 4th century BC, must be reminded that unlike other European civilizations at the time, not only did the Greeks know of the continent across the ocean but they were also aware that the earth is round and not flat. The Antikythera mechanism is a technological testament of that advanced knowledge. Additional evidence though, point that more ancient cultures during that period may have been aware of the continent across the ocean. Piri Reis, a Turkish admiral and a famous cartographer (1465-1553) repeatedly claimed that his controversial maps which showed the American continent, and some say Antarctica (300 years before its discovery by the Europeans), were actually based on ancient maps dating from the 4th century BC. Additionally, a recent discovery of a Carthaginian coin which depicts a world map (circa 350 BC) also demonstrates that at around the 4th century BC not only Plato and the Greeks may have been aware of the American continent, but others did as well.

By the way, when altogether discarding Plato's claim, that 10 millennia ago a prehistoric civilization from the Mediterranean travelled to North America via island hopping, how do we otherwise explain the migration of haplogroup X in the region of the Great Lakes, 10,000 years ago? (For those not familiar with mtDNA studies, while all Native Indians in America were expected to carry the four Asian haplogroups, A,B,C & D, some tribes around the Great Lakes were found to also carry haplogroup X, a gene that originates from the eastern Mediterranean). And, without Plato's explanation in place, how else do we explain that high traces of haplogroup X also happen to exist in  Scotland, Faroe Islands, and Iceland, essentially all the island stops to North America from Europe?

Those who support the Solutrean/ Clovis hypothesis (a migration via a partial ice sheet over the Atlantic), how do they explain that out of at least a dozen haplogroups present in northern Europe at the time (H, V, J, HV, U, T, UK, X, W, and I) only a single one managed the trip to North America, when on the opposite site, every one of the 4 Asian haplogroups sequentially followed each other over the Bering Strait?

As for those who support the hypothesis that haplogroup X migrated to the Great Lakes on foot via the Bering Strait, along with haplogroups A,B,C & D, how do they explain that there is no trace of haplogroup X to fill in the huge void between southern Russia and the Great Lakes of North America?  Most importantly, though, if haplogroup X migrated to America via the Bering Strait, how do we explain that the heaviest concentration of haplogroup X, away from the eastern Mediterranean, exist on the east coast of the United States, around the Great Lakes, and not in Alaska or the west coast? Is it time perhaps to give Plato's story another closer look?

Finally, in regards to the critics who will remind you that Atlantis was entirely swallowed by the sea, while obviously in this case remnants of it were left behind, in the following paragraph Plato clarifies this flawed belief.

The consequence is, that in comparison of what then was, there are remaining in small islets only the bones of the wasted body, as they may be called, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the country being left.


The Project

Your contribution will assist in producing "Atlantis Revealed", the pilot documentary in a series that will help unravel some of the most contentious mysteries of our time!

Most every previous claim about the discovery of Atlantis, has produced NO tangible evidence. Unlike past failures on the subject, this documentary will establish the following:

  1. Proper translation and analysis of Plato's account, places Atlantis in the Mediterranean, at the doorstep of Greece, and not in the Atlantic Ocean, or in some exotic location as many researchers previously thought.
  2. A thorough look for Atlantis in the Mediterranean ultimately revealed a prehistoric super-island (now 400 feet below sea level) that in every way matches Plato's description.  
  3. Around the 4th century BC, Plato and the ancient Greeks were fully aware of the American continent across the Atlantic. In effect, the continent across the Atlantic Plato mentioned in his story, was the American continent and not that of Atlantis.
  4. Past mtDNA studies, which confirmed the existence of a Mediterranean gene (haplogroup X) among certain American Indian tribes around the Great Lakes, not only corroborate Plato's claim of an advanced prehistoric civilization 10,000 years ago, capable crossing the Atlantic, but these tests further reinforce our conclusion that this advanced culture originated in the eastern Mediterranean.  
  5. High traces of haplogroup X in Scotland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and ultimately around the Great Lakes of North America, also validate that these "Atlantians" (or whatever that civilization was called) visited North America from the Atlantic side via "island hopping" and just as Plato claimed.
  6. Our research will reveal that the super-island of the Cyclades Plateau, otherwise known as Atlantis, was drowned by the sea at around 8000 BC, during the rapid rise of the Mediterranean and just prior to the flooding of the Black Sea (See UNESCO study of 2009 regards to the Black Sea Flood -- See also global flooding caused by Glacial Lake Agassiz -- Read Science News article, 2010: "Global Sea-Level Rise at the end of the Last Ice-Age, Interrupted by Rapid Jumps".)
  7. Contrary to a common belief that Atlantis vanished from the face of the Earth, Plato's own account reveals that remnants of Atlantis remained behind and formed small islets, just as in the case of the Cyclades Plateau.
  8. While several archaeological artifacts around the Cyclades islands point to some unknown pre-bronze age civilization in the area, we must now establish whether these artifacts are the recovering remnants of another slightly older civilization, one that could relate to Plato's Atlantis.
  9. Finally, the discovery of a matching site in the given chronology, confirms past scientific speculations that Plato created a moral fable around a real setting in which, in order to successfully communicate some of his philosophical ideas, he filled with familiar matter and details from his own time, just as Homer did 400 years earlier with the city of Troy. 
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FACTOID: Did you know the scientific community came close to solve this mystery in the past?

It is well known fact that other researchers and archaeologists in the past suggested that Santorini could have been the spot where the crown city of Atlantis once stood. Unfortunately for them though, since they did not believe that Plato's story could have taken place 10,000 years ago, they discarded Plato's given chronology of 9600 BC, and concentrated their study during the Minoan era, and closer to the time when the Santorini volcano erupted, around 1600 BC.

A huge problem with their "partial discovery" however, was that without the primary island of Atlantis nearby, Santorini alone did not match with Plato's entire description. This allowed for critics in the past to reject the particular proposal and continue to question the validity of Plato's story.

In other words, although archaeologists came close to solve this mystery in the past, apparently they did not come close enough, since they never were able to produce a matching site to Plato's Atlantis. As it now appears, looking for Atlantis in the right chronology, was always the right key to unlock this mystery. 

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The Budget 

"Atlantis Revealed" will be filmed primarily on location around the Mediterranean and the Cyclades Islands.

Our tight budget of $290,000 must be met prior to production. Every dollar collected will be reinvested into the project, either producing the film or making and shipping the perks. 

If our minimum target is not met, this will obviously cause temporary production delays. In that case, the production will resume once additional funding is obtained and our minimum required budget is met. Excess funding on the other hand, will allow for additional research prior to production, add special effects, and improve production quality. The more money we raise, the more talent we can attract, and bigger and better the project becomes. 

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At this level, we should be able to fund an underwater exploration with the use of a "side scan sonar". Our scanning depth of less than 400 feet, should allow us to use a high frequency side scan that produces an excellent resolution at shallow depths. A high frequency sonar picks up everything that the low frequency sonar does (manmade structures, walls, houses), plus small and soft targets like a vase, a small statue, skeletal remains, etc. High frequency side scan sonars are popular with law enforcement, wreck hunters, as well as marine archaeologists looking for ancient wood vessels that may be broken up and decomposing. Scanning the sea (between 50-350 feet in depth) near areas where prehistoric artifacts were previously found on land, as well as the seabed between the islands of Naxos, Sikinos, Antiparos and Irakleia, surveying for underwater ruins and other structures (like Plato's famous water canals), may turn out to be extremely beneficial to our project. 

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