The Lost City of Atlantis Found Through Google Earth

February 20, 2009 by Troy  
Filed under Discoveries

Say what? Yeah, you read right, some oceanographers believe they’ve found the lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the ocean using Google Earth‘s new ocean extension. The extension, which integrates ocean terrain maps and other boring pieces of technology, has found a patch of land “the size of Whales” with perfectly squared terrain.

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If you check out the picutre, it actually does look like it could be streets. But, my guess is it’s not, just because for that image to show streets, ancient people would have had to dig streets out of the ground. Personally, I don’t think they would have done that. Anyway, the article is pretty interesting.

The site, which is about three miles below the ocean and is about 620 miles west of Spain and Africa. The article explains that Pluto, an ancient philosopher, said that the lost city of Atlantis would be found in this area.