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Over the past decade or so there have been numerous discoveries about the ancient world, many of which cannot be explained by the traditional views of prehistory as interpreted by mainstream archæologists. It would be impossible to keep abreast of them all, but many have major implications for our greater understanding of the cataclysmic events of antiquity which are remembered in the stories of Atlantis, the Deucalian flood, and the flood of Noah that have been passed down from generation to generation in both oral and written traditions since time immemorial ...

Of course, there are so many ancient tales of flooded kingdoms, cataclysmic inundations and sunken lands from more or less every corner of the world, that it is difficult to avoid the basic question of whether or not they all refer to the same cataclysm, or a series of cataclysms that happened over several millennia from around 15,000 BC to around 1,500 BC? Many scientists now believe that there were a series of rapid sea-level changes which marked the abrupt end of the last Ice Age, especially at the time of Plato's original date of 9,600 BC where he placed the supposed destruction of Atlantis.

The melting ice-sheets, it is believed by 'uniformitarians', were sufficient to account for these sea-level rises, but other scientists are looking at the possibility that supermassive quantities of water-ice were rudely delivered to the Earth by a giant comet which passed close to the Earth and the Moon at the end of the Pleistocene era - again at around 11,500 years ago. This 'event' was coeval with the world's major mountain ranges - such as the Alps, the Andes, and the Himalayas - attaining their present elevations, whilst many of the world's low-lying basin areas collapsed in an abrupt series of crustal deformations caused by the gravitational effects of a celestial body in such close proximity to Earth.

Many of the world's 'deluge traditions' refer to a celestial agency as having been the cause of the global floods, as well as the major rifting of Earth's crust in numerous locations, and possibly also causing a tilt in the Earth's rotational axis which brought about the seasons and the frigid polar regions as we now know them. The mass extinctions which marked the end of the Pleistocene and the start of the present Holocene era are also dated to between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, as are the unconsolidated jumbles of now extinct land animals, marine lifeforms, and Pleistocene flora which comprise the many types of 'drift deposits' found jammed with extreme force into caves and rock fissures worldwide.

Many species from widely differing climatic zones and habitats lie side-by-side in bits and pieces evidencing the violent nature of their common demise, and careful analysis of these suggest the cause as being not the Ice Age of the uniformitarians, but the tumultuous swirling waters of mega-tsunami. Either way, the major question which cannot any longer be reasonably avoided by serious prehistorical researchers must be:

"What more evidence of ancient civilisations, and of the sea-faring peoples of world-wide
mythology, remains to be discovered beneath the waves on the
continental shelves all around our planet?" ...

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Atlantis in the South China Sea?

An image/link of a map of the South China Sea area showing land that was above water at the time (11,600 B.P.) of the Atlantis inundations

That Australia and South-East Asia were linked by dry land before the ice-caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age is a fact, and peoples then chose to live on the coastal plains by the sea just as we do today.

Tectonic upheaval accompanying the various eruptions of the Krakatau volcano during the Holocene period would undoubtedly have led to the same sort of inundations of the lowlands which saw many coastal villages completely wiped off the face of the Earth in the July 1998 earthquake-generated tsunami that hit Papua New Guinea.

Three tidal waves over 20 feet high ensured there would be nothing left of five villages along a twenty mile stretch of the coast for the archæologists of the future to study. A number of earthquakes hit Sumatra (magnitude 5.9), Papua New Guinea (magnitude 7 and 5.7 both on the same day), 100 miles south of the islands of Vanuatu (magnitude 5.2) and 100 miles off Fiji (magnitude 4.5) all within one 24 hour period.

The international rescue effort following these events was something that may not have been possible to co-ordinate 11,600 years ago. The theory that the true location of Atlantis was in the East Indies, specifically Indonesia, is an attractive one for many since the discovery of the enigmatic underwater monument off the coast of Yonaguni Jima island in the East China Sea. This area, centred on what is now Borneo and Indonesia, was at one time linked by dry land to what is now the Malay peninsula, close to the magnificent temples at Ankgor Wat, under which advanced imaging radar devices have detected evidence of much earlier occupation.

This site is well worth a visit. It has won many 'excellence' awards from an impressive array of bodies due to its 'scientific approach'. It covers much detail regarding common roots of the many languages and cultures associated with the area, as well as sound geological evidence for their chosen 'cause' of the destruction of Atlantis - a massive eruption of Krakatau.

"Tsunami Hunters Probe Lake Bottoms For Clues"

March 06, 1998, ScienceDaily, USA: "When the predicted big earthquake hits off the coast of southwestern British Columbia, communities near sea level will have one more potentially life-threatening hazard to worry about - tsunamis, or tidal waves.

Exactly how big the tsunamis will be and how far inland they will reach depends on the intensity of the earthquake. Still, the best way to predict what might happen is to look back and see what's already happened.

That's why a group of scientists, including SFU geographer Ian Hutchinson and plant paleontologist Rolf Mathewes, have spent the last three years probing the gooey depths of several tiny lakes on the west coast of Vancouver Island." [Full Story]

Atlantis in Antarctica & south Atlantic?

An image/link of Antarctica as Atlantis from the Flem-Ath website

Ever since Charles Hapgood's "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" was published in the 1970s, and his theories of 'earth-crust displacement' were endorsed by none other than Albert Einstein, the entire 'paradigm shift' was waiting impatiently for someone to take it to it's logical conclusion. Rand and Rose Flem-Ath have done just that. Their hypothesis that Antarctica was the lost continent of Atlantis referred to by Plato, is backed up with solid scientific analysis of shifting polar regions.

Archæological and geological anomalies, such as the remains of temperate climate animals that have been found in the ice in Siberia, is just one of the many mysteries they have given a clear explanation for. Standard interpretations of prehistory takes a major blow yet again. Click on the image/map from their website and enter the Flem-Ath's 'paradigm shift'

In their book "When The Sky Fell", Rand and Rose Flem-Ath identify three areas of high ground to where the survivors of the Atlantis catastrophe may have fled: High in the Andes where the remains of the temple of the Sun at Tiwanaku are to be found; The Ethiopean highlands around Lake Tana where the African Nubian culture emerged; and the highlands of Thailand at a place they identify as "Spirit Cave".

They speculated in their book that remains of advanced civilisation would inevitably be found near Thailand in the near future. In February 1998 a NASA satellite using an advanced imaging radar device discovered the remains of many more temples, and prehistoric settlements at the Angkor Wat complex in nearby Cambodia.

The remains of an elaborate network of canals and irrigation systems that the Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) project uncovered are similar to those described by Plato in the Critias dialogue as having existed on Atlantis.

The flight over the area was funded by the Thai government, and the finds are more evidence for the Felm-Ath's theories about the the areas in which the Atlantean survivors may have settled. The old Siamese capital, Chieng Mei, is also a centre of elaborate canal systems, and these could not have been built without some expertise being introduced into these highland regions.

The Morien Institute is convinced that Rand and Rose Flem-Ath are on the right track. We would add that the Earth's 'shifting crust' is probably the only plausible explanation for many of the archæological anomalies in Siberia, Alaska and elsewhere.

We also take the simple view that an impact, or close passage between the Earth and the Moon, by an asteroid or cometetary fragment would have provided just the 'trigger' that would be needed for the Earth's crust to shift in exactly the way Charles Hapgood, who was supported by Albert Einstein, and Rand and Rose Flem-Ath's studies seem to be proving.

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October 2002
Morien Institute
illustrated interview with
Professor Masaaki Kimura
of the University of the Ruykyus,
Okinawa, Japan, regarding
the discovery of:

"Megalithic structures found underwater off the coast of
Yonaguni-jima, Japan"