Could the ancient mystery of the lost continent of Atlantis be on the verge of solution? Robert Sarmast thinks so, and he further believes my ancestral island of Cyprus has something to do with it:
After nearly a decade of rummaging through libraries, studying maps, reading ancient works and pouring over oceanographic data, an American researcher believes he has discovered the site of the lost civilisation on the sea floor between Cyprus and Syria, not far from Greece and Egypt, from where the legend of Atlantis originated.
'This is an area that has not been charted before,' Robert Sarmast told The Observer from his Los Angeles office. 'The submerged land mass we have located off Cyprus's coast matches Plato's famed description of Atlantis nearly perfectly.'
The Athenian philosopher described the mythological empire - 'sunk under the water after an earthquake' - in two of his famous dialogues, Timaeus and Critias .
This could spark a new chapter in my on-going genealogical research. Imagine: me an Atlantian-Canadian! This should qualify me to receive some sort of federal government subsidy to help extend the scope of our multicultural awareness.
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