A new documentary has claimed that the lost city of Atlantis is buried 60 miles inland under marshland on the South Atlantic coast of Spain and was wiped by a giant tsunami.
Finding Atlantis was showed by the National Geographic Channel in the US on Sunday and fronted by Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut.
Professor Freund clarified how he directed a pursuit to find the traces of the lost civilization, believed by many to be an ancient Greek myth, by handling a deep-ground radar, satellite imagery and digital mapping.
"I think that we found the best candidate for what was the beginnings of civilization ... one of the largest and most early cities at the bottommost of a huge marsh."
He contends that Atlantis, described by Plato in 360BC is 60 miles inland, in Spain's Donaña National Park, north of Cadiz, and was wiped out by a giant tsunami. Plato wrote it had been destroyed by a natural disaster in 9,000BC.
"This is the power of tsunamis," he said. "It is so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about."
He said that some of Atlantis's inhabitants had fled a tsunami to establish similar "memorial cities" which he had identified in central Spain.
His film company, Associated Producers of Canada, added: "Besides identifying the location of the city, they discovered a stele that may have stood at the entrance to the ancient civilisation. It records the long lost symbol of Atlantis."
The film's claims however were on Monday dismissed as having no reliable basis in scientific fact and of misinterpreting partial results by an investigation by a team of distinguished Spanish scientists. Since 2005 they have been working on the site at a huge national park and bird sanctuary near Cadiz.
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