is located in Africa in the country we now know as Mauritania. The Eye of

nearby mineral deposits. Technically, the Richat Structure is an eroded circular anticline (structural dome) of layered sedimentary rocks (according to NASA). Howeve

ormed really is irrelevant for our analysis. Plato doesn't specify that the land on which Atlantis sat was shaped by humans. Formed during

et forth why the Eye of Africa could be Atlantis. It has the f

at their tops. Its outer circle is roughly 23.5 km in diamete

if it was once inhabited. To add to this, there is a well at the center of the Richat that h

Elephant skeletons and ancient rock paintings of elephants have

other mountains on its approaches, which are beautiful and striking, and the are

mountain range gets its name) - which just so happens to be

n nearby. There are red, black and white stones in the region which natives still use t

h was important to sailors at the time. These same sailors would have had to sail out into the Atlantic past th

been a colony of Atlantis, as claimed by Plato if it was located there. To add to this claim, the

ere present in substantial quantities. There are copper and gold min

on, 11,600 years ago, coincides with a post-glacie

ucture in a map that he drew up 2500 years ago. Herodotus, incidentally, is known as the Father of Histor

Atlantis, the Nile, which he suggests ran from the

er known place on earth, without exception. If you read Plato, and compare his description of Atlantis to the Richat Structure and add a little ima

provisions, and people of ancient times could only have known the part about the concentric rings if

hat they are adequately explained given current knowledge, I am saying they could be explainable given additional quite reaso

o need for you to believe anything here that conflicts with your previous understanding and accepted dogma. However

silence. It was a good thing that he had prepared himself mentally for any response. He did not know what the silence meant. It was one of t

calling him a madman, yet others hurled insults while others gave praise. Soon the entire auditorium was so drowned out by