Can we make this wider knowledge? Having a continuous stream of people coming in adding new speculation I think stymies discussion. I’m interested in new archeological posts as potential, other, lost cities, I just the presentation of these as Atlantis is just muddying the waters. It would be interesting to share more information on the Richat Structure and to share what we can deduce from this in conjunction with Plato’s text. I’d really like to hear theories on the levels of development the city may have had, the span of the empire, who the people may have been, the age of the city, the series of events that lead to its down fall and where people may have migrated afterwards.

I would personally assume that the city developed as a natural meeting point for hunter-gathers in this region 10a of thousands of years ago and that it, in time, it became permanently settled and that perhaps some animals were domesticated in this area but that proper agriculture wasn’t developed. This would mean that it was not the complex city we might imagine but rather a series of stone homes and temples under one tribe. I think the supposed technological prowess of the Atlanteans relates primarily to their seafaring ability, but I would guess this was an exaggeration in other technological aspects given my assumption that they didn’t develop agriculture properly and we can be sure they were able to record their own history. I imagine the account of the names of Atlas’s different children by Plato were the names of tribes that separated from the main Atlantean tribe, of these the name Azaes sounds to me a lot like Azores and perhaps this tribe founded the Azores Islands with other tribes founding places whose names have been lost.

These are my thoughts.