The true location of the legendary city of Atlantis may have finally been determined based on compelling new evidence. If true, it may be part of a larger message that our ancestors broadcast across time; a coded message to the future of humanity that’s charted in the stars.
Our modern understanding of Atlantis comes from the books Timaeus and Critias, by Plato. Plato learned the story from the works of his ancestor Solon who, 200 years before, studied the Egyptian records of Atlantis in the Temple of Sais, which explained that Egypt was once a colony of the Atlantean Empire. Plato does much more than simply mention the past existence of the city. His description of Atlantis is extremely detailed, to the point of being oddly specific.
The Atlantis described by Plato is circular, with alternating rings of land and water. It was located on a southern coast of an island, surrounded by a plain, and sheltered by mountains to the north. The diameter of the farthest inner island was 127 stadia, or 14.5 miles. The city was built of red, black and white bricks, and had a freshwater well in the center island. In 1965, astronauts discovered the Richat Structure while observing the Earth from space. It’s proportions and characteristics are strikingly similar to Plato’s Atlantis:
Plato wrote that Atlantis was destroyed in a single day by a massive flood. A flood of that size would have drastically altered the landscape. This would explain why the Richat Structure is 300 miles away from the ocean today, and why the entire area bears the scars of a violent movement of water. In fact, evidence suggests that much of the Sahara Desert used to be the ocean floor. Before the flood, the map may have looked more like this:
Plato, via Solon, dates the destruction of Atlantis to around the period of a cataclysm theorized by Randall Carlson. The theory, called the Younger Dryas, suggests that a comet struck the massive ice sheet covering North America around 12,000-13,000 years ago, and that the melting of so much ice at once triggered a worldwide flood.
But what if we could pinpoint the date of the destruction? In a 1998 documentary, Graham Hancock explored a celestial clue hidden within ancient structures that might have the answer. Hancock describes “Heaven’s Mirror,” which is a reference to how ancient structures were raised to corresponded to star constellations.
The star cycle, or axial precession, is approximately 26,000 years long, meaning each night of our lives we see a unique sky. The stars in the sky tonight will not be in those exact positions again until this cycle has completed. This is because of the Earth’s tumbling rotation around its own axis:
It has long been theorized that the three pyramids of Giza are correlated to the three stars of Orion’s Belt because, well, they obviously are. Critics who attack the theory rightly point out that while the configuration of the two formations are identical, they aren’t aligned, given the constellation’s position in the sky.
However, if we wind the star cycle back to the year 10,500 BC, they are perfectly aligned. Simultaneously, the Sphinx would have been perfectly aligned with the constellation Leo in 10,500 BC. If that’s not weird enough, the ancient temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia was perfectly aligned with the constellation Draco in 10,500 BC. Orion stands directly opposite Draco in the sky. Even stranger is the fact that these structures were supposedly built thousands of years after 10,500 BC.
What is going here? The year 10,500 BC falls smack dab in the hypothesized period of the Younger Dryas catastrophe. What message were these ancient structures built to deliver? Is it a key to unlock something? Is it a warning of danger? Maybe it’s simply just to pay some kind of homage to Atlantis? Why else would they calculate and align their structures to that specific date of the star cycle? Were these efforts coordinated worldwide? If so, how?
What do you call a map that also measures time? A cartogrameter? What if it’s a cosmic map? A star clock?
