Massive underwater ruins could be evidence of Plato's lost Atlantis, researcher insists

A squad of autarkic researchers is claiming to person recovered Atlantis. 

The probe centers astir chromatic structures connected Spain's Salmedina Island, disconnected Chipiona successful the Gulf of Cádiz, westbound of the Strait of Gibraltar.

The ruins are dispersed crossed astir 11.6 quadrate miles of offshore seafloor and adjacent coastline, with immoderate walls measuring 23 feet precocious and 6.5 feet thick.

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Michael Donnellan, the Spain-based laminitis of Ingenio Films, believes the structures are the remnants of a mislaid Atlantic civilization — perchance Plato's Atlantis. He documents his beliefs successful the movie "Atlantica," a 90-minute enactment shared with Fox News Digital.

Donnellan said the chromatic slabs are lone disposable doubly a time astatine debased tide. And helium estimates they whitethorn beryllium implicit 11,000 years old.

Independent researchers assertion that monolithic chromatic ruins disconnected Spain's Salmedina Island could beryllium grounds of Plato’s Atlantis. Pictured astatine near are the coastal waters of Cadiz, farther distant from Sal Medina. (Ingenio Films)

So what's down his theory? Donnellan said it's each astir depth. 

Geologists believe, helium said, that successful this country thing buried astatine astir 3 meters heavy — oregon 10 feet — is astir 3,000 years old.

"What we're uncovering is much than 20 meters successful depth," helium noted. "And erstwhile you spell down 15 to 20 meters, you get to the level level … but successful reality, you person to see determination are astir apt different 5 oregon 10 meters, oregon possibly adjacent 15 meters of sediment connected apical of the underwater ruins, which further exaggerates the antiquity."

"The discoveries we're making are real, and the efforts of an bonzer team, including divers, archaeologists and specialists."

This each leads Donnellan to judge they are overmuch older than a fewer 1000 years — earlier the Phoenicians, Tartessians and Romans.

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"[They're] astir 10-12,000 years, springiness oregon instrumentality a mates of 1000 years, according to our geologists," helium said.

Not lone are the structures ancient, Donnellan argued, but determination appears to beryllium grounds of a cataclysmic lawsuit — not unheard of, arsenic the land lies adjacent the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault.

"Normally, erstwhile you person sediment deposits implicit a agelong play of time, you’ll find stratification," the researcher said. "But erstwhile there’s a abrupt sedimentary deposit — a precise chaotic, cataclysmic deposit — what you find alternatively is nary stratification, conscionable a monolithic pileup."

Michael Donnellan, the Spain-based laminitis of Ingenio Films, believes the ruins whitethorn day backmost 11,000 years, agelong earlier known precocious civilizations. (Ingenio Films)

"There's each denotation these settlements were affected by a truly traumatic interaction oregon a bid of climatic changes."

Researchers utilized assorted technologies, including LiDAR and a multibeam echosounder, to survey the site's details, Donnellan said. The echosounder allowed them to make a 3D representation of the water floor.

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Donnellan said the "Atlantica" documentary is the culmination of a decennary of work, which included implicit 200 dives arsenic good arsenic cautious survey of Plato's writings.

"The discoveries we've been making are truthful precisely akin to Plato's texts connected Atlantis that it makes it hard to deliberation we've recovered thing different than what helium described," Donnellan said.

"Our enactment connected this task is immense and volition proceed with certainty for galore years to come."

"However, for radical who are acrophobic of the connection 'Atlantis,' I similar to usage the word 'Ancient Atlantic Culture.'"

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When archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann recovered the remains of Troy successful the 1870s, it was assumed that the tract had been purely mythological. 

But Schliemann dug up walls, fortifications and artifacts that proved Troy's beingness — arsenic good arsenic the remnants of its conflicts. Donnellan believes that helium could likewise displacement Atlantis from story into history.

Donnellan believes chromatic structures successful the Gulf of Cádiz are remnants of a mislaid Atlantic civilization. (Ingenio Films)

"Either Plato was talking astir this precise place, oregon it's a tremendous coincidence that subject and Plato’s texts are coming together," Donnellan said of the Salmedina site.

If proven, Donnellan's findings would suggest the earliest precocious civilizations were acold older than Mesopotamia, which dates backmost astir 5,000 years.

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There is not yet immoderate world statement connected Donnellan's findings. 

Juan Antonio Morales, a stratigraphy prof astatine the University of Huelva successful confederate Spain, told section outlet Cadiz Directo there's "no grounds of quality enactment successful this area," meaning successful the coastal formations helium has studied. Instead, helium attributed them to geological processes. His comments were astir the portion successful general, not Donnellan’s tract specifically.

José "Pepe" Orihuela, an anthropologist and writer of "Atlantis: The Light of the West," told Fox News Digital that it's "reasonable" to judge Plato's Atlantis communicative is "an echo of the beingness of the megalithic improvement successful occidental Holocene Europe."

Donnellan argues the ruins uncover a cataclysmic event, perchance linked to tectonic enactment successful the region. (Ingenio Films)

The Holocene began astir 11,700 years agone — astir 9700 B.C. — marking the extremity of the past large crystal age.

"Cultural phenomena specified arsenic megalithism suggest that during the Holocene, a flourishing civilization oregon civilization thrived successful this portion of the world, with its epicenter successful the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, specifically on the coasts washed by the waters of the Gulf of Cádiz," said Orihuela.

For those who deliberation the formations are earthy oregon acold younger than respective thousands of years, Donnellan encourages them to ticker his movie series. The organisation is underway, with an authoritative merchandise day to beryllium announced.

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"The discoveries we're making are real, and the efforts of an bonzer team, including divers, archaeologists and specialists," Donnellan said. 

"The ruins we've discovered nether the h2o are lone a tiny fragment of the full bid of discoveries, which each constituent to the information that the Iberian Peninsula had a thriving civilization galore thousands of years earlier antecedently assumed."

The adjacent steps are to proceed the research, helium said — some connected onshore and underwater.

"I anticipation the nationalist sees the value of our work," said Donnellan. (Ingenio Films)

"Our enactment connected this task is immense, and it volition proceed with certainty for galore years to come. This is conscionable the extremity of the mountain."

He added, "I anticipation the nationalist sees the value of our enactment ... that humanity arsenic we cognize it is acold older than we've been led to think."

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"Everything we see astatine the halfway of humankind — culture, navigation, science, art, euphony — it's each acold older than we've been taught … Something genuinely tragic happened successful the past past, which astir led to our destruction." 

He besides said, "We fundamentally each request to get on better!"