LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS FOUND?

Prof. Richard Freund believes he has finally found the lost city of Atlantis. In Sunday’s National Geographic special “Finding Atlantis,” the University of Hartford professor and his team say they’ve found the remains of the legendary city, just north of Cadiz in Spain.

For thousands of years ago many have debated about the true existence ofAtlantis, saying that Atlantis was only a fictional story written by Plato himself.

The lost city of Atlantis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago was described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC as “an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules,” “There occurred violent earthquakes and floods. And in a single day and night of misfortune… the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea.”

They found a site in the northern part of Cadiz, Spain by using a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city. The team used cutting-edge technology and surveyed Dona Ana Park, a mudflat in Cadiz near the Strait of Gibraltar also known as the “Pillars of Hercules” in the ancient world.

In addition the team also found “memorial cities,” they believe were built by tsunami survivors as a tribute to the lost city of Atlantis. They found the memorial cities 150 miles inland from the site.

An image carved in stone of what looks to be an Atlantean warrior was also discovered.

Experts plan to conduct more excavation on the site to find further proof that the mysterious lost city was found.