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The Lost Atlantis so lavishly described by Plato has been "found" all over the world-from Ceylon to Sweden. Last week a German clergyman was writing a report on how he had found it again-this time in the North Sea.
Late this summer a fishing boat set out from the German port of Husum. On board was scholarly Jürgen Spanuth, pastor of the Lutheran church in Ost Bordelum, a little village behind the North Sea dikes. Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific...
In four more days of diving and note-taking, Spanuth found that his wall encircled an oval area 1,012 yards long and 328 yards across. Inside were irregularities that might very well be the ruins of buildings long covered by the sand. One of these buildings, Spanuth is convinced...
Not many serious scholars will accept Spanuth's theory without some questions. Most believe that when Plato described Atlantis (in the Dialogues Timaeus and Critias), he was merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato...
"It Is Possible." As described by Plato, Atlantis does not sound very much like what Pastor Spanuth found. Atlantis was a very large island, as big as North Africa and Asia Minor put together, and Plato located it outside the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar). The land had...