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Once in Ouadane, you can use a good-conditioned 4×4 jeep or go for a hot air balloon or an airplane ride for a bird’s view, but it will cost you more. There is no restriction, but you should visit during the day. In addition, while Ancient Apocalypse suggests that destruction happened 12,000 years ago, most proponents of the alternative view believe it occurred around 1630BC when the island of Santorini exploded in one of the most violent volcanic events in human history.

What is the Richat structure or eye of the Sahara? What is it made of, and how did it form? Can you tour the area to see it? Is it the lost city of Atlantis? Get answers to all these questions and a lot more. Facts in brief

What a lot of people forget is that the story of Atlantis is actually a war story where Athens defeats Atlantis. Hübner plugged in the clues—essentially it was like a game of Battleship, [in which] whatever area had the most pegs sinks the battleship, or in this case discovers Atlantis. He theorizes that Atlantis was a little bit south of Casablanca in modern Morocco. Ancient artefacts: The Richat Structure is not known for its archaeology or ancient ruins, yet some artefacts have been found there. The Visiting Atlantis documentary and the Indie Archaeology video feature artefacts in makeshift museums in the desert near to the Richat. These include stone spheres with a flat side, stone arrowheads claimed to be 10,000 years old, and copper artefacts. These may not prove that an advanced ancient culture existed, but they do suggest that the area was inhabited in ancient times. Netto, A.M.; Fabre, J.; Poupeau, G.; Champemmois, M. (1992). "Fission Trace Dates of the Richats Circular Structure". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 314: 1179–86. The topography surrounding the Richat Structure supports the notion that Africa had suffered a gigantic flood. In satellite images, it looks as if something literally swept over the entire area towards the sea. The gravelly deposits include slope scree, debris flow and fluviatile, or even torrential flow, deposits, supporting Plato’s description that the area was flooded "within a single day and a night." 11. The Eye of Osiris

is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the [Atlantean] dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles [the Strait of Gibraltar] and all that dwelt within them." In Plato’s Critias and Timaeus dialogues, he describes Atlantis as three alternating zones of water and two of land, which could easily be transposed onto the physical structure of the Eye that we know today.

Initially, it was thought to have formed from a giant meteor impact like Wolfe Creekin Australia or Barringer Crater, Arizona, USA. Geologic studies concluded it was not and not astroblemes but endogenic.The video follows a familiar format – gather together lots of circumstantial evidence, exaggerate its significance and specificity, ignore anything that doesn’t fit, ignore all genuine scholarship, and create the impression that you’re onto something. Essentially – blow a lot of smoke to convince the naive that there’s a fire. Meado, A. (2011). Richat Structure . NASA. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92071/richat-structure alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water…the part about the city was all a smooth plain, enclosing it round about, and being itself encircled by mountains ... [the plain] faced towards the South and was sheltered from the Northern blasts [by the mountains]." The Richat structure, popularly known as the eye of the Sahara, is a striking, symmetrical, slightly elliptical geologic feature. It has concentric rings and measures about 25 miles (40 kilometers). This unique geologic feature visible from space is in central-west Mauritania’s Sahara Desert. The location of the Eye (Athens and Egypt): The Richat Structure is geographically well related to places associated with Plato’s Atlantis. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the north of Africa, and the Atlantean navy is said to have besieged ancient Athens on its shores. Over in north-east Africa lies Egypt, from where Plato apparently received his information (via Solon) about Atlantis. It has also been suggested that Egypt used to be a colony of Atlantis. Thus far, it’s all looking promising.