Plato wrote about the destruction of Atlantis in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias. According to these accounts, Atlantis was a powerful and advanced civilization that existed about 9,000 years before the time of Solon (around 9600 BCE).
Key points about the destruction of Atlantis in Plato’s texts:
The gods, led by Zeus, punished the Atlanteans for their arrogance and greed. They had strayed from their once virtuous nature, becoming corrupt and imperialistic. The destruction of Atlantis involved catastrophic natural events, described as earthquakes and floods. These events caused the island to sink “in a single day and night of misfortune” beneath the ocean. Plato noted that the story of Atlantis was preserved in Egyptian records, as the ancient Greeks had lost their history due to natural disasters such as floods.
Let’s have a closer look at events that took place around 9,600 BCE:
Here, we find the end of the Younger Dryas, the last ice age. Roughly between 10,900 and 9,700 BCE.
Global temperatures were generally colder by around 1–2°C on average compared to the present. However, the cooling was regionally variable:
- North Atlantic and Europe: Temperatures dropped significantly, with cooling in some areas estimated at 5–8°C.
- Greenland Ice Core Data: This suggests a 7–10°C decrease in local temperatures.
- Tropics and Southern Hemisphere: Changes were more moderate, often less than 1°C, but still notable regarding global climate patterns.
The Atlantean colonies were situated in the tropics and southern hemisphere. North African desert was more savane-like.
Around 9,400 BCE, Meltwater Pulse 1C caused a rapid sea level rise of several meters due to ice sheet collapse, likely devastating Atlantean coastal and island settlements.
The Taurid Meteor Impact, linked to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, is believed to have occurred around 10,800 BCE. It likely caused abrupt climate cooling, widespread fires, and megafauna extinctions, predating Meltwater Pulse 1C by over 2,000 years.
A comet entered the solar system, crossing Earth’s path twice yearly and causing destruction over two decades. Comet fragments devastated North America and the Atlantic region, with a massive impact in the Atlantic Ocean triggering tsunamis and the final destruction of Atlantis. This event is linked to the legend of Noah’s flood.
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Several megafaunal species’ extinction occurred relatively briefly around the end of the last Ice Age. The Megatherium giant ground sloth disappeared approximately 12,000 years ago, while the Arctodus, a genus of short-faced bears, vanished around 12,800 years ago. The woolly mammoth also became extinct around 12,000 years ago.
These extinctions were abrupt and catastrophic. Many woolly mammoths have been discovered with undigested grass in their mouths and stomachs, indicating they died suddenly, without warning. This points to a rapid and severe event, likely tied to dramatic climate changes, comet impacts, or other environmental catastrophes at the time.
Based on these events, the Great Flood must have happened somewhere between 10,800 and 9,500 BCE.
Academics say the first civilizations arose around 4,000–3,000 BCE during the Bronze Age, driven by agricultural advancements. Examples include Mesopotamia (c. 3,500 BCE), Egypt (c. 3,100 BCE), the Indus Valley (c. 2,600 BCE), and China (c. 2,000 BCE).
That leaves us with a ‘historical’ gap of almost 6,000 years.
