Another dip in the Mediterranean in search of Atlantis

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Friday April 30, 2004
The Guardian
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A quest for the lost island of Atlantis began off the southern shores of Cyprus yesterday.

After a decade of intense study an American, Robert Sarmast, claims to have assembled evidence to prove that the fabled island lies a mile deep in the sea between Cyprus and Syria. He says he has detected "around 48" of the 50 geographical features Plato described the island as having before it was "swallowed up by the earth".

By August he hopes to have proved that Atlantis was not simply a figment of the imagination but a real empire with stone temples, bridges, canals and roads.

"What we have discovered is a hidden landmass that fits Plato's famed description almost exactly," he said in the Cypriot port of Limassol.
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More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1206519,00.html

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1. And in a related bit of lunacy...

Expedition to search for Noahs Ark

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey's Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah's Ark.

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