[osiris-with-ED]

How would you explain the presence of landmasses corresponding to the Atlantis myth that can be found in the Azores plateau? Additionally, the legend itself was recovered from Egypt, so whether or not the Greeks had knowledge of the Atlantic would have no bearing on if the Egyptians (or, more importantly, the people who were their progenitors) had this knowledge.

[Maursault]

> How would you explain the presence of landmasses corresponding to the Atlantis myth that can be found in the Azores plateau?

Simply, they do not correspond. The Azores were discovered in the 14th Century, and there is no archeological evidence of any settlement or even an ancient advanced civilization prior to the Portuguese settlers. Also, there is no evidence in the Azores of any ancient catastrophe.

The mistake is in assuming that in 300BC, Gibraltar was known as the Pillars of Heracles. Except that it wasn't. Another place, very close to Greece, was known as the Pillars of Heracles. Stop looking in the Atlantic.

And please look at a satellite image of Thera/Santorini and compare to Plato's description (ignoring his obviously ridiculous continent-sized scales). After the catastrophe, Santorini looks like the description of Atlantis before the catastrophe.

Following the broad strokes, a catastrophe destroyed a civilization, which could and most likely describes the Minoan civilization that was destroyed in a catastrophe, namely, the destruction of Santorini.

[simonh]

There are many dozens of theorised locations for Atlantis, tye Azores is only one and not a particularly compelling one over any of the others IMHO.

The Egyptians at that period and before were far, far worse sailors and navigators than the Greeks, or pretty much anyone else. I really wouldn’t trust anything they would say about distant geography or navigation.

[ncmncm]

An Egyptian expedition sailed all the way around Africa, starting at the Red Sea and returning via the South Atlantic, taking three years. They reported the sun on their right as they rounded the Cape, which was taken as proof of fabrication, to the ancients.

Egyptians achieved a great many impressive things, over millennia, the overwhelming majority of which we have little or no record of.

[simonh]

That was a Phoenician expedition recorded by the Egyptians.

[ncmncm]

I am corrected. ISTR the expedition was funded or instigated by a pharaoh, but could be hallucinating.

A whole mess of authentic Egyptian hieroglyphs were found carved in rock faces in Australia, a few decades back. They were recently examined and translated by an expert in ancient Egyptian language. They turn out to describe the disastrous end of a big expedition a bit over 2000 years ago. Some of the symbols used entered dictionaries only a few years ago, so they are unquestionably authentic.