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0:08the atlantis is thought to be one of the most advanced societies
0:12the ancient world then without warning
0:16it literally vanishes overnight
0:19an extraordinary civilization lost for ever
0:27but its memory is not soon forgotten legendary status has made atlantis
0:32the Holy Grail modern archaeology which I i
0:35gotta get in the like but month the city may not necessarily be
0:41on that the vote on this eve about that but all these problems
0:44Atlanta should be somewhere around here
0:47away benefit is here how come we can see
0:53this team obsessed scientists believe they finally
0:56hit the jackpot
1:06the extraordinary tale at Atlantis reaches back to the very dawn of Western
1:10civilization
1:13this city atlantis seen by many has
1:16mother on each ness pertain and Israel in Europe
1:21and all the other civilizations began in this area
1:24and he began here world we may be looking at
1:28single most important site for humanity
1:33the discovery ovett lantus would completely rewrite
1:37the early chapters of history myth
1:40would become reality
1:45so finding this mysterious sunken city has become the stuff
1:49obsession
1:53generation after generation has set out in search for
1:56that every quest has ended sale
2:00now with the help of modern technology one team
2:03may finally beat the odds expect they're employing
2:07everything from satellite photography to ground penetrating radar
2:11to underwater archaeology
2:14in a passionate bid to find the something said
2:19but does atlantis he did sis went
2:25the legendary city maybe just added
2:30a legend
2:33over millennia the story of the ancient city has taken on a life of its own
2:39transform into countless fantasy land
2:47to separate fact from fiction any search for Atlantis
2:51must begin with the original source material and Angela Hart
2:55knows just where to look
2:58all we know about atlantis comes from a few pages that the books that I am
3:04holding in my hands
3:05written by the Greek philosopher Plato he is the gold standard
3:09that is no other ancient the source
3:12for the method atlantis this is it
3:15the record speak a vast power they sprang forth from beyond from the
3:20Atlantic Ocean
3:21print that time this ocean was possible since it had an island in it in fron
t of
3:26the street
3:27that you people saying you call the palace at Herrick lease
3:30Plato's descriptions of atlantis
3:33are incredibly intricate his writings provide any atlantis seeker
3:38a detailed roadmap
3:44according to Plato
3:45atlantis was an island kingdom with land rings
3:48and circular harbors situated just beyond
3:52the Pillars of Hercules
3:55many believe that the Pillars of Hercules described the peaks that flank
3:59the entrance
4:00to the Strait of Gibraltar the northern pillar being the rock
4:04Gibraltar and the southern pillar a corresponding peak
4:08in North Africa well this leads doctor Richard crime
4:13to begin his search for Atlantis southern Spain
4:18the bills at Hercules was known by every single ancient
4:21writer as being located what we call today
4:24the Straits of Gibraltar this play is located just beyond
4:29those ancient colors and Hercules crowing focuses
4:33on the Guadalquivir River Delta and Dona Ana National Park
4:38he believes a massive engine bay once existed here
4:41in antiquity
4:44here we are largest March in southern Spain
4:48100 square miles it is
4:52nasa we're talking about 40 15 miles worth
4:56just March up and
5:00archaeologists think that buried in this March
5:03is the lost city %uh atlantis the new in 1922
5:08archaeologists George bouncer and aid official
5:12propose that Atlantis is hidden under these mud flats
5:15the new but for decades most scholars ignore the theory
5:19then in 2004 a young German physicist named
5:24rain or chrome makes headlines using satellite photography
5:28to resurrect the bouncer shortened theory I am he up wasn't so much
5:32leads after 29 a national park it is exactly he ok well I think that plateau
s
5:37atlantis was located
5:39could observe strange circular patterns in a satellite photograph
5:44at the Dona Ana mud flats
5:47comparing the photograph to the detailed descriptions and played
5:50koon becomes convince that the lost city is here
5:54in southern Spain in his writings
5:58plato describes a port city with three rings concentric harbors
6:02and gives exact dimensions for each
6:07koon believes that the circular patterns he sees should play does measuremen
ts
6:12and there's more in his writings
6:16plato describes two temples in the center island at atlanta's
6:20one dedicated to the got the side
6:23within the circular patterns on the Dona Ana much flats
6:28crew finds a rectangular anomaly when you calculate its dimensions
6:33it comes up a perfect match to Plato's description
6:37Poseidon's temple
6:45today koon's theory has led to a full-scale expedition
6:48a team will determine whether the anomalies detected from space
6:52actually correspond to man-made structures under the mine
6:56it includes anthropologist one Bres
6:59whose research is closely followed by Richard freund
7:03and Paul barman expert and subsoil sonar mapping
7:07those shapes only tonight correlate with any possible
7:13geological features my mind is no question they're manmade features
7:17one of the big circles is connected with a
7:21several a rectangular structures we
7:24think that those rectangular structure
7:27have a wall below the shape in the soil
7:31and we are trying to find we have
7:34a building if they're is a building
7:38or any other artifact deep beneath this mod
7:41it could be the find of a lifetime
7:44if they can excavate come up with just a few
7:48really good artifacts they can be dated
7:51to four thousand years ago then we have
7:55evidence for the great ness civilization with
8:00up beginnings atlantis even on this team
8:05there are skeptics who say the long-lost Kingdom atlantis
8:08is just a myth but they need only look at 1000 miles east
8:14to place the Turkish call troy aikman for proof
8:17that miss can become reality
8:21here lies Troy one of the most storied cities
8:24the ancient world so
8:27this is the main street of the Late Bronze Age said that they love Troyer
8:32updated around the 13th century
8:35PC
8:38for years people thought that the city of Troy was a fantasy
8:41a made a place described in Homer's epic poem
8:44the ileum in the three thousand-year-old story
8:48Troy is the setting for the Trojan War and the legendary Trojan force
8:53where the warrior Achilles fights for the beautiful daughter it seems
8:58Helen of Troy like atlantis
9:02Troy was thought to be just a miss those who searched for it
9:06were ridiculed there were many voices
9:09that would say that this story is pure fiction
9:13that toy does not exist the new then
9:16in 1870 amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann
9:20proves the Droid is a real place after ok
9:25he's able to honor the fabled city by simply reading one of the oldest myths
9:30in Western literature
9:31is it was fact he use the Hilliard
9:35as a a tour guide he accepted it
9:38as a direct description homer describes the city with steep rising walls
9:43and broad streets
9:46Shrien found balloons here reveal a city filled with impressive
9:51architecture Sri man also needed to locate a city beside two rivers
9:56Troy is described as City
9:59located at the Kong flow of
10:02to reverse has come under us and see Morris which I hear
10:07most importantly he needed to find evidence up the Trojan War
10:10and indeed the archaeology here points to a bloody battle
10:14this building was roofed with a wooden beams
10:18and we know that its ended enough I up because the beings
10:23were charged and if there was a Trojan what this is the best evidence that
we
10:27have
10:29for those searching for Atlantis Troy isn't inspiration
10:33proving that myth in fact are sometimes one and the same
10:36when she man came here he was successful he excavated
10:41an archaeological sites that everybody agrees nowadays
10:44is the site of Troy a he wanted to solve an archaeological problem and he d
id
10:51now the team in Spain is taking an even bigger gap and no one knows if they
'll
10:56be as lucky
10:57this rich and strange Marshall and on the Spanish coast
11:02is part of a protected park called done yup
11:07in ancient times this area of southern Spain
11:10was under water and the Dona Ana park was essentially
11:14a large bay in the bay who created
11:17over a long period of time nascent
11:20sandbars that allowed people
11:23to use the sandbars to create cities
11:28doctor Richard freund believes that the famous reserve atlantis
11:32may have existed in this bay thousands of years ago
11:35freind and the team archaeologists
11:39geologists at anthropologists pore over satellite photos in the area
11:43we've got four different there they find what may be circular shadows other
11:49ancient city
11:49final week narrowed it down
11:53to a very specific location around this mysterious circle
11:58in the midst that the a swamp %uh
12:01but in order to pick the best areas to investigate the team needs better im
ages
12:08in this simple homemade contraption
12:10might just fit the bill
12:13by attaching small cameras to a balloon & kite
12:16the team can get high resolution images the photographs taken from space
12:20there there goes that's working the aerial photographs we doing today
12:24he gave us the clearest images
12:27they've ever had today will get the best photographs in this entire
12:31area with this baloney and see whether those rains
12:34really exist going to lift a blown to at least 200 meters and I will probab
ly
12:38work at
12:39different increments elevation 100 150 200
12:43and so forth
12:45them any patterns or anomalies in the soil
12:49that appear in these new photographs could indicate buried man-made
12:53structures
12:53but if there was once a mighty city here
12:58what happened to it no according to Plato's final chapter
13:04the great city of atlantis faced cataclysmic disaster
13:09violent earthquakes are followed by great flooding and after just one day i
n
13:13one night the entire
13:15islander the flattest sinks below the sea dome
13:19in order to prove their theory the Spanish team must fight evidence
13:22such a disaster doctor Juan Antonio Morales
13:26finds geological evidence have a long history up massive tsunamis
13:31hitting this coastlines listen i sat at the Pentagon mall
13:35in the blood I'm and don't know when I think there are better at a little
13:38brother former
13:38the anything ask people still think they know they made them
13:42for a done deal it too so the any in the blood mean don't knock on sale sol
ar
13:46tsunami
13:46see no house-senate nominees to the same if the Rings atlantis existed in t
his
13:52ancient Bay and were ravaged by successive some noms
13:56the city would have been torn apart or perhaps
14:00called into the sea as a result evidence of the lost civilization
14:05might not just be under the Dona Ana much for those it could be
14:08underwater of the modern Coast till that's exactly where the team takes
14:16their search
14:17marine archaeologist cloudy all of our No
14:21and morality are equipped with the latest in sonar technology
14:28the torpedo shaped told fish generates sound waves that balance of the sea
14:32floor
14:33when the signals return the received by a computer on Dec
14:38that converts the sound waves into images
14:44any formation that appears in the sonar imaging system
14:47is Matt and its coordinates record we have seen
14:50finally which is subject to go wall missus
14:54very different lot geology confirmation me
14:59its it this summer got sucked right now we found Diana
15:03an anomaly bad is know Joe they got all
15:06is very being these many hi two walls
15:10one tool completely fair to go very nice
15:14and the shape is not not enough subtract
15:17cloudy oh and Juan Antonio locate what looks to be a large structure
15:2339 feet below the surface
15:26they'll have to return and I'm the same
15:29but some think the Spanish team is looking in the wrong waters
15:33entire
15:37the search for Atlantis is a plague many great minds over thousands of year
s
15:42scholars have scoured the globe searching for its ruins
15:46up for some of these explores
15:49Plato's description of the city sophisticated architecture in society
15:54clearly points to just one location the island's
15:58group
16:01and underneath the clay soil on this hilltop in Crete
16:04lies evidence oven ancient civilization way ahead of its time
16:08archaeologists call it
16:11Manalo
16:13my nose where real loss to build
16:16from walking all four thousand-year-old streets which was probably the main
16:20access to this mine own settlement beautifully pace with very large slaps
16:25specially cut for this building all over the island to find elaborate
16:29architecture
16:29with major ceremonial hall spit frescoes which shrines
16:33and there really hasn't very sophisticated life
16:37%uh Plato says atlantis boasts gorgeous
16:41temples and shrines with a highly ornamented powers
16:44situated on the central island %uh the man known architecture on Crete
16:49seems to reflect the same blueprint we're in the
16:54Palace cLOSEOUTS the may just I unknown civilizations
16:58with this massive palatial structure
17:01at its core am could this be the great central Palace
17:05that plato describes am
17:10this is a mega structure covering about 10,000 square meters
17:14now this kinda architecture required
17:18incredible planning to get the stones from the quarry
17:21hired to transport them here to have the skill
17:24mason's work them to create this kinda
17:27straight line and the different kinds of shapes would have been very very m
inimal
17:33walking amongst the breathtaking remnants of their ancient world
17:36its easy to imagine the man no one's calling their CD
17:40by another name atlantis I'm
17:43E
17:46to match the descriptions of atlantis the man known city also has to have a
n
17:51acropolis
17:51with dwellings and home and it's all here
17:55conoces on
17:58according to play down the ball is a central part of the Atlantic and cultu
re
18:03in Atlantis Sacred Pools roam free around the temples
18:07there were shipped by priests and sacrificed in honor of the site
18:12here conoces its obvious bowls were once powerful symbol
18:19on the bus the northern pensions passage at close of
18:22in behind me is this imposing ball
18:25fresco now it really seems that the bold
18:29was it very significant positive claussen political propaganda
18:33says a bully being seen found in fresco fragments
18:37over into is part of the palace as well
18:40the cultural importance of the ball the stunning architecture
18:45the depictions of the utopian lifestyle together paint
18:49a familiar picture it seems possible that the people we call knowns
18:54are really the long-lost people atlantis but atlantis famously came to an e
nd
19:00Plato says the city was destroyed in a single day and night
19:06evidence suggests the man known people may have suffered
19:09a similar fate it's from this kind of archaeological evidence that we can
19:14did you some counter a crisis situation a lot of things went bad
19:19the on the southern coast of Spain
19:23researchers have discovered buried structures they believe may be the lost
19:27city of Atlantis
19:28is not Zillow's you got all but there are those who think the Spanish team
19:33is way of course that Atlantis was actually located
19:37in the Greek islands the archaeology here is convincing
19:41there is evidence that the man known people have Crete suffered a terrible
19:45disaster
19:46in ancient cataclysm that may have wiped out this advanced civilization
19:51just as plato describes
19:55clues to this catastrophe can be found 85 miles north of Crete
19:59on the Greek island a century me also known
20:02s there
20:04the disaster that occurred here nearly defies description
20:10it's a volcanic island and the volcano exploded
20:13very very spectacularly
20:15thirty-six hundred years ago
20:17evidence with this very impressive architecture not even excavated is just
20:22being exposed as it's eroded by the sea
20:24and you can see here evidence all the third eruption with ash layers
20:28and pottery showing that this building was destroyed at exactly this time
20:32the ash cloud from Sarah blocks out the Sun for days
20:37for the people of Crete the affects
20:40are devastating get this huge ash clouds arriving on the
20:44on the street and they deposited sort of like think actions also kinda cash
20:49the Gloucester calls tremendous problems in there are other culture in ther
e
20:52shipping in there call there's a lot of people probably lost their houses
20:56you have all Catholic Wenger's a lot of things when that
20:59the earthquakes and massive volcanic activity on century ni
21:04likely produce tsunami's gigantic waves that crashed onto the north coast
21:09cream
21:13these waves with carry with them rock and pumps a very porous and solidifie
d
21:18lava rock
21:19evidence upon this on Crete could be proof than
21:22each in tsunami-hit here this all spots
21:26along the north coast of the Isle we found like on his deposition
21:29that is probably related to this entry eruption and has been recent
21:34activity from archaeologist suggesting that those deposits could really onl
y
21:38have been calls
21:39by something like a tsunami the
21:42me know when architecture are temples ok
21:45aren't culture want its all wiped out by one of the most powerful eruptions
in
21:51human history
21:52yeah the case
21:56linking them in Owings to Atlantis is strong but the legend of Atlantis hin
ges
22:01on its sinking
22:02and overnight disappearance and for the Nolans
22:06the eruption fairer is now the end some
22:10managed to survive they have continuity
22:14in the man known civilization after that interruption we can see
22:18archaeological layers showing the occupation
22:22at the time if the eruption and then rebuilding
22:25and reoccupy patient straightaway off to its
22:28it seems that despite compelling evidence
22:32this is not the place that plato describes
22:36the man known civilization did not sink into the sea
22:39it persevered ultimately
22:43this triumphant story of survival is the greatest evidence
22:46against the theory
22:50but back on a much less have Spain the jury is still out
22:53doctor froing tennis team believe they're on the verge
22:57uncovering the city that fits all the criteria
23:00laid out by Clayton m we stand here the outskirts
23:05the Dona Ana National Park the source tremendous speculation that perhaps
23:10this was the place where atlantis
23:14was located in this was the place the mind shawl
23:17into which in disappear
23:23in Dona Ana Park
23:25the team reviews the new aerial photographs taken from their kite
23:29and balloon cameras and then I this is a test
23:329 him the feature I hear on the hierarchy you may see me
23:37the signal we want to go home any circular or rectangular patterns
23:42could provide strong evidence have a footprint up the lost city
23:46despite the procedure was not being with you know at least so this is
23:50near the Bowl spot or because we beat goes in this area has been cleared by
23:54the grass cut as well attach
23:56even after clearing the feature was still visible from the Chi for
24:00it's clearly not just feats that's visible on that stage but visible in the
24:04earth
24:05these traces may be the last markers
24:08atlantis this is I think that the most important feature
24:11any aerial photography it's been done it's the one that most resembles
24:16anything like atlantis hasn't area looks like
24:21a port leading into a large circle where
24:24the concentric circles would have been freund is convinced that the photogr
aphs
24:31reveal a pattern that matches Plato's description
24:34a series of circular harbors with the central canal connecting them to the
24:38ocean
24:39the team also identifies other supporting features
24:43circular features linear features Palo
24:46speeches all in the order love over human scale so frances things that look
24:50like pathways old ways that a
24:52a major twenty years across features a look like buildings at a
24:5648 meters across the team now uses
25:00eart electrical dresses to the tomography to record images of what lies
25:05underneath the circular pattern what we're doing here
25:09is we're reading a bunch occur to the ground and we're measuring what
25:13what comes back from not and would be able to get a picture of what in the
25:17subsurface up to about 12 kilometres
25:19below the concepts the crew frantically searches for any remnants
25:23the lost city of Atlantis may finally be in their grasp
25:29where did you grow older very but another ancient mystery
25:33also looms large to the victims were here that the company the biblical sto
ry
25:37of the Lost City
25:39after sheesh tar sheesh
25:42is a city mention many times in the Bible and
25:45many scholars believe that it's simply another name for the injured and fam
ous
25:49city
25:49after Tesla's most scholars agree the dirt SS
25:53was located in southern Spain and the touch
25:57is located in southern Spain dart SS
26:00was tosh in the written sources
26:04hurt sooo centaur sheesh are famous for their medals
26:07trade ships would travel for years from as far away as the Middle East
26:12to fill their homes
26:15but art so's entire sheesh abruptly disappear from historical and Biblical
26:20records
26:20it says if the city's suddenly ceased to exist
26:24but froing believes that's because in ancient days
26:28te so Santa sheesh went by another name
26:31atlantis
26:34we have to win markedly similar stories being told in antiquity the story o
f tar
26:39sheesh
26:39in the Bible and the story that lantus in Plato and Roman sources
26:43in the story of Plato atlantis
26:46is a port city located on an island
26:49at the far end on the known world where Deepwater ships would come
26:54taking three years to arrive at the end to their journey
26:58in the Bible to sheesh was that city
27:01it may have been built on an island a deep water port
27:04at the end in the known world for the Bible
27:07and it was a place to talk three years according to the book chronicles
27:12for them to arrive at the end their journey the martyr test those
27:17is to sheesh is atlantis it's an interesting theory
27:21and each city is documented is a famous port
27:25that mysteriously disappears from the written record the man and the
27:29similarities don't end there
27:33each of the three cities is said to have great mineral wealth
27:36the new with access to massive amounts of gold
27:39%uh silver for copper my Plato is certainly does
27:43talk about mines I
27:45which the obtains have access to you and
27:48wanna fix mines being for this probably fantastical metal called
27:53arch up by some archaeologists think they may know what im might be. or
27:57what it might be like all we know is that it close like five
28:00scholars translate
28:04or choc as mountain copper today
28:07just up river from the Dona Ana mudflats the hills shadow in the Rio Tinto
28:12are mined for gold silver copper
28:15and there's evidence to suggest there's been mining here for over 5,000 yea
rs
28:21the mudflats proximity to these deposits a valuable
28:26or make any ancient city located here a strong candidate for Atlantis
28:31it's just one more clue that points to the coast of southern Spain
28:35as the best location for the lost city but the only way to know for sure
28:41is to get a closer look day anomalies
28:46we have seen and it this searchers have completely
28:50here square this is spurious because
28:53this for are forming a line two meters
28:56hi for me is the most interesting thing this era
29:00made this option use cold air today
29:05and
29:08using side-scan sonar the team isolates
29:11five pairs off the southern coast of Spain that main hall
29:15remnants up the lost city other clans the sonar images
29:20show what looks like man-made structures on the seafloor
29:24right now we are sailing one of them find online
29:28check we call it the bill is really big smile
29:32party meters long to make positive that there
29:36we are looking for is if is human-made
29:40are not
29:43it's the beginning of storm season
29:46high winds and foul weather pick up the end of September
29:49continue through the winter the divers have only a small window of opportun
ity
29:55to investigate the site
29:56before the weather turns ugly weather with nails
30:00to win over yesterday blow doubt what their that came from the real
30:04good habitat has really like we expected
30:13I'm
30:15on
30:20nearly 39 feet below the surface
30:23the divers discover some unusual nations
30:30on
30:37stones it seem to have been cut the new
30:42the meeting by the management
30:49the stones may have once been part in the great city walls
30:53that little disk drives
30:57me on phone compulsions
31:01we haven't cancelled
31:04single and on
31:08day
31:11with a handful today
31:13have not been a good to have abandoned the problems and are likely not be t
he
31:17gonna be another long before I to bottom but a below but again the
31:22good mom as
31:26each diver services more details at the unique discovery
31:29are revealed yet another you there think you don't wanna know it up
31:32to be about perfect on the other hand in a bit thriller the IP
31:36good some places like %ah
31:39like a wall on good at it like your steps
31:43from national very hysteria stop
31:49okay I name
31:52the dye is a success let the team's geologist
31:56Juan Antonio doesn't wanna jump to any East conclusions
31:59first he needs to review the hours a underwater footage
32:04any discoveries from the diving expedition
32:07could be linked to potential fines in Dona Ana so the team continues their
32:12search online
32:15archaeologists conduct be careful survey at the surface
32:19hunting for any cultural remains cool looking for Atlantis
32:24on not just looking for the building's plants
32:27looking for is the culture atlantic's we may not find
32:31all the cum towards the city you could find a war fun to Los
32:35given time rectangles the still doesn't connect directly with
32:39the ancient Near East and all the great civilization from the Jan
32:44to the mediterranean every once in a while archaeology
32:47you come upon smoking gun something that connects all the dots for you
32:51I'll while searching within the large circular patterns in the soil
32:56trying to his colleagues suddenly discovered to
32:59incredible artifacts name a diplomatic
33:02a look at look at oh my gosh people wait a whole career
33:06to find one of these little figurines and define
33:09chill at just magnificent it's a
33:12ancient statuette probably at least two thousand years old
33:15she is one of the most spectacular kinds of Goddess
33:19Ischia Startech which doc if they are I start a
33:24or ishtar it would make them Bronze Age icons
33:28dating as far back as four thousand years unions
33:33the beautiful figures may represent a direct connection between this area
33:38and the great civilizations the ancient world
33:42from the ancient Near East through the Aegean to the mediterranean knows to
o
33:48small to Corinne's
33:4910 connected because if we find the culture
33:53fits into that context and the fam plann this
33:56meanwhile now back on land
34:00cloudy 0 Juan Antonio and the team divers
34:03carefully review their footage analyzing what seems to be the ruins
34:07a man-made structure you any little bitty city
34:11get by said attention and a blog man I think it's often about i'm looking i
n
34:15nature but im
34:15by some old manual into the rail
34:19leans General Motors a little met adlai asylum
34:2210 get myself confirming alleys will available to do you have a pic
34:27you know no booking a little did I have been told me what term
34:30good at it a bedroom but I think it works and Matt never miss another like
a
34:35seal
34:35Molly think our I think you know me i i chart the way Gary appalachia
34:40computers and wonderful to both removal placing
34:43each stone raises new questions home
34:47although they appear to have been formed geologically it's possible they we
re
34:51later used as building materials
34:53longer than that one that only someone getting into those
34:56million bottom Union a memo skin muchas
35:00their desktop program he never got the little people
35:03by the time we're at it and see the little detail available to the sale
35:06problem if the stones were transported
35:10used as building blocks the most likely location for construction site
35:14is under the Dona Ana much less
35:19for three days now the team has been conducting
35:22advanced imaging across the geometric patterns first soon
35:25in the aerial photographs
35:28let's get one of the year just look let him look at this this is the big ci
rcle
35:33any structures below the soil will show up as distinct breaks
35:37in the so-called density and conductivity crack
35:42if there are evenly spaced breaks that match the circular patterns on the
35:46surface
35:46it will be strong evidence that they were apparent structures under the mud
35:51that could be the city atlantis okay so here's the year
35:56results from the electrical imaging across the at a large circle that's
36:00particularly reminiscent of Plato's description of
36:03atlantis the section 260 meters line
36:06and 12 meters deep the breaks here
36:09and breaks again ahead sixty music 60 meters
36:12the results look positive the images show breaks consistent with the circul
ar
36:18pattern seen from above
36:20in my view of the popular of british duty to electricity
36:24much is the pictures much just that she folded
36:27or the border shouldve all the features you can explain the circles because
they
36:31there really aren't and there is some time representation in the soil
36:35love play bed if a city was suddenly buried here
36:38all the organic material associated with that civilization
36:42with also be tracked
36:47over the centuries this material would decompose
36:50and produce gas while retrieving core samples
36:54the team tax just that
36:59but isn't this the most exciting feature we have a mysterious
37:03methane later that could indicate
37:06flora and fauna human activity sealed
37:10in one single layer and a catastrophic event
37:13freund is feeling optimistic early lab results from the fines at the Dona A
na
37:19mud flats
37:20REM and so far they look positive carbon-14 dating
37:25has told us that artifacts found inside the marsh
37:28go from the period of 5000 BCE all the way down to approximately 2,000 BC
37:34we have a scoring tells us there was a deep water port
37:38that continue into the center of this Marsh
37:41electrical resistivity tomography identifies
37:45that there were actuals signatures a walls
37:48the was located below the surface and we have a mysterious
37:52methane later it was sealed about six to nine meters below the surface
37:57it goes down deep what is it must be best that means
38:00methane is created by the decomposition of organic matter
38:05if the entire atlantis civilization was suddenly berry
38:09it could create a huge deposit have trapped methane
38:13like the one found by the research team although other explanations for the
gas
38:17are possible
38:18its unique location coupled with the history of tsunami's on this coast
38:23together make a strong case that a tsunami crashed onto this site
38:27and buried a city the surrounding flora
38:30fauna and people would have called I there
38:35the researchers are anxious to excavate but there's groundwater right below
the
38:39surface
38:40and that poses serious problems going be but also in meters
38:45is technically very complex okay I'm very expensive GAPDH
38:50it could be years before anything is on her steered
38:55but further inland other Spanish archaeologists
38:59have recently made a discovery that could lend further evidence
39:03to the Dona Ana theory and point the way
39:06to Atlantis this
39:09this country or why not one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in
39:13the 20th century
39:14and 1970s 1980s archaeologists discovered a series of different
39:19villages
39:20the preserve to test and culture this tight ass and culture
39:23was sold different been all the other culture around
39:28it was the culture on the south growing believes
39:32part s and culture was really Atlantean culture
39:36but these twenty five hundred year old ruins are a 125 miles from the coast
39:41a long way from home why did they come here
39:46some cataclysmic event on the coast
39:49push them out from their homes in the ninth century
39:52drawing believes this place is not the remains of a once bustling village
39:58ok
40:00rather it's a memorial to the Lost Kingdom
40:05other atlantis meaning
40:08he calls it the ritual City and says this site is
40:12actually a miniature replica other atlantis
40:15built homage
40:24concho Alano is just one of several ritual cities found in this area
40:30the people who built the sites were commemorating something like
40:34but was it the legendary seaside Kingdom atlantis
40:37hundreds of miles away detectives say follow the money
40:41archaeologists I'm follow the stone
40:44slate key ok
40:48this room is paged with slate
40:52this flee room
40:54name in the residence on the high priest for the entire
40:58memorial City ok and slate is not indigenous to this area
41:02but 250 kilometers to the south
41:06on the coast very famous people would have brought
41:11slate all the way up to this
41:14contour line of sight ok drawing believes this late in the temple
41:19connects this
41:20inland side with the coastal city of atlantis mine
41:25on its own it's not enough to establish some bad luck
41:29but there's something else he was an altar the secret symbol
41:33that helps make his case
41:36another clinton's the Holy of Holies located at the center
41:41up the entire city just like
41:44Poseidon's temple it's mentioned in the writings and Playdom
41:48this was a place when the most sacred rituals would take place
41:53sacrificing animals ritual objects were found here
41:57gold and silver and bronze
42:00according to Plato the story of atlantis came down to him from the Greek
42:04legislator
42:05solo who heard it from the priests aged Egypt
42:08ok it seems the Egyptians had direct contact with the Atlanteans
42:15on
42:16and in the most holy space concho on I'll there's a thirty five
42:20hundred-year-old
42:21Egyptian symbol
42:23in this place in the center was found
42:26simple a symbol that goes back to the fair on
42:29glossing in the 16th century BC any
42:32it's a simple upholding metallurgy
42:35are this simple links the site
42:39to the metal worker so revered by the ancient fair in the historical record
42:45there are three cities famous throughout the world for their mastery of met
als
42:50tar sheesh talked so's and Atlantis
42:53this symbol could connect this place to all of them
42:58and maybe the ultimate crime that the three cities
43:0111 said regional
43:07but there's one more piece of evidence connecting
43:10concho rolando to Atlantis the most remarkable
43:14artifact evolved and ancient carving that seems to preserve the very
43:19emblem atlantis
43:23to stone indicate what they were memorialized
43:26who they were what is its symbol
43:31of concentric circles one inside the other
43:34have found right
43:37at threshold
43:41at the entrance akansha were 10 and in many other ritual cities
43:45are large stone stairway
43:52should come up to the city he would see this
43:56standing stone in front are they
43:59warrior with his sword drawn
44:02and here we have the concentric circles
44:05the city but he's guarding this signposts points to
44:09the city with one entrance in coming
44:13coming out and in the center the same thing that Plato's describing atlanti
s
44:18central shrine site it's their memory
44:22past and the symbols that we find on this
44:26is the way they remember atlantis
44:29if this structure was built by refugees from atlantis
44:38in this is the shared memory their sunken home
44:42scale model of the Lost City still barry
44:46perhaps the need the mud southern Spain
44:52in a deserted Pacha marshland may lie the secret that explores have been
44:56seeking for more than two thousand years
45:01advanced imaging technology has detected circular patterns
45:05like those described by playing
45:12the same design but repeated on a twenty five hundred-year-old memorial
45:19and new science seems to have revealed guarded Island City
45:22a circular canals with a central shrine in a waterway
45:27that leads to which part maybe this is where our civilization was born home
to
45:34an ancient
45:34in advance people
45:37culture other extraordinary achievement
45:41perhaps submerged beneath this ground is the place we call
45:44lands