There Probably Exist The Lost City Of Atlantis

Atlantis is real and once existed in the Earth. A recent study claims that the Lost City really existed but it was wiped away by massive tsunamis.

The story of Atlantis is one of the oldest myths of mankind, first told by Plato in around 360 BC, describing an affluent land that vanished without a trace and sunk into the sea. The Minoan community of Akrotiri, unearthed on the island of Santorini, was an advanced settlement. It was destroyed by a powerful eruption of Santorini volcano around 1,500 BC, says Daily Mail.

The Athenian philosopher's description of the mythical Island's destruction has many similar points with the story of the Minoan Akitori. The place suffered the same fate Atlantis had, vanished without a trace. Supposing that Atlantis was actually Akrotiri, connotes that the island was actually the lost city Atlantis.

A recent study suggests that the tsunamis may have been generated by the pyroclastic stream of volcanic material into the sea. The eruption of Santorini in 1500 BC caused enormous tsunamis that have been suggested as a reason leading to the end of the Minoan culture. According to The Sun, proof for waves at least nine meters high has been discovered at several sites on the adjacent Greek Island of Crete. In addition, studies have proposed that the breakdown of the volcanic crater into the sea produced the tsunami.

However, researchers from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens presented a different theory about. The researchers examined the sea floor below the caldera and found proof that suggests the caldera was not connected to the sea when it shrunken.

In their research, published in Nature, the researchers, led by Paraskevi Nomikou, said that regional-scale tsunamis connected with the explosion were produced by the pyroclastic flow accumulation, increased perhaps by mass slumping of swiftly deposited pyroclastic deposits to the seaward slopes of the island's volcano. Additional support for this theory is pyroclastic deposits up to 60 meters thick found offshore Santorini.