Did an Asteroid Destroy Atlantis, Plato's Lost Island? Egypt, Atlantis & the Younger Dryas Period
Channel: Celtic History Decoded
Date: 2022-12-11

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The Egyptian Origins of Plato’s Atlantis Story & the Younger Dryas Catastrophe of 12,000 Years Ago  

What were the origins of Plato’s account of the lost civilization of Atlantis and was Atlantis destroyed by a great environmental catastrophe around 12,000 years ago? 

First, what is the story of Atlantis and how do we know about it? It was described by the Athenian philosopher, Plato, in his book Timaeus, written circa 360 BC. Plato describes a great power whose base was an island in the Atlantic Ocean opposite the strait the Greeks called the Pillars of Heracles, ruled by a powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings. This great power of Atlantis then tried to enslave the surrounding territories, but they were defeated by a Greek alliance led by the Athenians. 

There was then earthquakes and floods of extraordinary violence, and in a single dreadful day and night all of the Greeks fighting men were swallowed up by the sea, and the island of Atlantis was similarly swallowed up by the sea and vanished. This is the just of the story, but stick around to the end of the video as I will go through the line-by-line story of Atlantis as told by Plato. 

Although Plato himself was Greek, Plato notes in Timaeus that the story of Atlantis is an ancient story that has been passed down through generations and was in the records of the ancient Egyptians. In the Timaeus dialogue, Plato notes that although this story is a strange one, it was once vouched for by Solon, the wisest of the seven wise men as Plato writes, an Athenian statesmen who lived from 630 – c. 560 BC. Solon was told the story of Atlantis by an ancient Egyptian priest when he was travelling in Egypt, visiting a district at the head of the delta, where the Nile divides. 

As part of the set-up of the story, Solon is told by this Egyptian priest that “you Greeks are ever children; young in mind.” The priest continued: “There have been and will be many different calamities to destroy mankind, the greatest of them by fire and water.” The priest then continues to describe how fire and water destroy civilizations, and how deluges can cause parts of the world that live near the ocean to be “swept into the sea by the rivers.” The priest then adds that there has been numerous deluges down through history and not just one, and that in Egypt they try and keep records of such events. Atlantis was one such event. 

Debate as to whether Atlantis ever existed has raged for millennia. An interesting detail in Plato’s account of Atlantis is that a date is put on when Atlantis was swallowed up by the sea. Solon, who again lived from 630 – c. 560 BC, is told by the priest that the story of Atlantis he goes on to describe happened nine thousand years ago, around 9,600 BC, around 11,600 years ago from today. 

What is intriguing about this date is that it is the general date of the end of the Younger Dras period in geophysical history of the planet, which lasted from around 12,900 to 11,700 years ago. The Younger Dryas period was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, c. 27,000 to 20,000 years BP) during the last ice age. Following the Younger Dras period, global temperatures rapidly warmed to similar levels to today, with Greenland ice-core samples suggesting that local temperatures increased by up to 10 °C (18 °F). 

Sources:

Randall Carlson's Take on Atlantis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdqX09zZNf8 

Plato (2008) – Timaeus and Critias (Penguin Classics) 

Younger Dryas - https://www.britannica.com/science/Younger-Dryas-climate-interval 

Martin B.Sweatman - The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 218, July 2021, 103677 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825221001781 

Joe Rogan: The SECRET About The Fall Of Atlantis & The Great Ancient Flood 12,000 Years Ago!! Joe Rogan: The SECRET About The Fall Of Atlantis & The Great Ancient Flood 12,000 Years Ago!! - YouTube - Graham Hancock 

Vivien Gornitz, Sea Level Rise, After the Ice Melted and Today – NASA https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/2007_gornitz_09/ 

Younger Dryas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas 

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro and Atlantis 
3:28 Myth Vs Reality 
5:04 The Younger Dryas Period 
6:02 Sea Level Rise? 
7:20 Comet or Asteroid Impact?
8:19 An Ancient Story?
12:37 Line-by-line of Plato's Atlantis Story 
15:01 Support