Read Timaeus’ and Critias’ accounts of Atlantis, as reported by Plato, they clearly describe the Bronze Age Iberian (Eber) Peninsula, with the mineral rich Rio Tinto Mines of the Sierra Morena Mountains, the mountains to the north of the concentric canal (island) city of Posidon, also known as the city of Atlas (“Father” Sidon’s son), perhaps one of the submerged megalithic ruin sites off Tarifa, Chipiona, Rota, or Huelva, off southern Spain, just west of Gibraltar, submerged when the Ice Age ended.
Forget for a moment the 9,000 “years” before Plato’s time that Atlantis went under, save that, and then the rest of what you see in the Atlantis story is clearly Bronze Age: mining and metallurgy, Bronze Age weaponry, precession navigation (see article #2 at IceAgeCivilizations.com) for the global ship traffic described in the story, and ancient Athens battling the Atlanteans, Athens which was not founded until about 2200 B.C., just after the Tower of Babel, not way back 9,000 years before the classical Greek era of Plato’s time.
So the 9,000 “years” is the only problem keeping the whole story from making perfect sense, we should either throw out the whole story of Atlantis, or consider that the true story was 9,000 lunar cycles before Plato’s time, 8 or 900 years, or that a zero was added to the years, to 900 years in the accurate rendering.
The description of the Empire of Atlantis, its extent, its now submerged ruins throughout the western Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, and some of its cyclopean megalithic ruins still onshore, such as at Lixus, Syrtis, Cyrene, Niebla, Ronda, and Seville (Tarshish), bespeaks the Ice Age ongoing with Atlantis and ancient Bronze Age Athens, and when it ended, Atlantis and much of Greece (according to Plato’s account) succumbed to the drastic sea level rise, circa 1500 B.C.
