Prof. R. Freund: It is buried in the Donana's Marshes in southern Spain

New research is emerging that provides strong evidence that Atlantis is buried beneath the large marsh of Coto de Donana Park in southern Spain, a vast swampy area south of Seville and north of the Spanish port of Cadiz (Gadeira or Gadara in ancient Greek language).

Μan international team of Spanish, Canadian and American scientists, led by American archaeologist Richard Freund of Hartford University in Connecticut, began research in 2009 to study the wetland. This was first observed as a possible location for Atlantis by a German scientist looking at various satellite images in 2003. Freud's team's research and findings were presented in a special show (film) entitled "Finding Atlantis" on the National Geographic channel , on Sunday 13/3/2011.

The case began in 2003 with the German scientist reporting that what he saw in satellite images of the subsoil of the "Coto de Donana" national park area looked like a circular structure with a straight line connected to it.

Over the next few years, others thought that the visible structures in the satellite images were similar to the island of three concentric circles with a single entrance in and out as described by Plato in his account of Atlantis, written around 360 BC. Plato also placed Atlantis near the "Pillars of Hercules", known today as the Straits of Gibraltar, which connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

Presented in the National Geographic film, Professor Freund explained how his team worked to discover the lost civilization at the bottom of the Donana Park marsh, using deep-ground radar, digital photography, satellite imagery of submarines and underwater equipment for diving and scanning the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean around the area.

"I think we found the best candidate for what the beginnings of civilization were .... one of the largest and most ancient cities at the bottom of a huge marsh," Freud said, claiming that it was Atlantis described by Plato in 360 BC. It is buried in the Donana National Park north of Cadiz, and it is a given that this area was once in an open bay that was destroyed and filled with mud by a giant tsunami. "This is the power of the tsunami," he said. "Although it is so hard to understand  that this wave can wipe out to 60 miles inland. That's pretty much what we are taliking about."

Regarding the difficulties and challenges encountered in researching this area, Freund said: "I have become an expert in places that have become silted in. But it was very difficult to make any excavation inside the swampy national park. The ground is constantly covered with water and mud for 11 months a year. Even in August and September the water table was very high."

Freund and his team transported their equipment to the area during the driest months of the year, August and September, in 2009. "By shooting electricity into the ground we can distinguish between different types of material. This type of technology can map the whole subsurface instead of digging .... It's a form of non-invasive archeology." "We have mapped the subsurface. It is like an MRI for the ground," he added.

The images obtained from the electrical imaging of the ground show interruptions in the subsurface densities compatible with the circular patterns that are visible from above. What the team found in the electrical mapping of the subsoil was a pattern that was repeated at regular intervals, something that does not occur naturally. While satellite images identified structures that appeared to be buried in swamps.

In addition to advanced scientific mapping, core samples were collected from 13.5 meters deep, into the silt and wood chips, which were given for testing. Carbon dating of the material nuclei was also confirmed, which confirmed that there was human activity in this area about 4400 years before our days.

However, finding the core samples, the team inadvertently found something interesting. A mysterious layer of methane that may mean flora-fauna.

In addition, colleagues on Freund's team found two figurines on the first and second days of their trip which symbolize some "Goddesses" of the old times. "Are they images of Astarte, Istar or a widely known Phoenician deity," Freud wonders?

"What if Atlantis was located in Spain and the origin of civilization didn't happen in the Middle East but happened in Spain?" Freund said he asked himself. "I think that the Atlanteans are the parents of the Phoenicians."

The documentary "travelled" to Turkey as well as to Crete and Santorini before ending up in southern Spain, beyond Gibraltar. Here we have an image from underwater research that shows us submarine formations made by human hands, dating to the Bronze Age. Specifically, ruins of square rocks were found at the bottom of the sea (near the area that used to be a port)

R. Freud at the end summarized the evidence so far that emerged from the research in the area of ​​the swamp:

1. Core sampling shows that there was a large port that continued to the center of the swamps
2. The found objects are dated (by the carbon-14 method) between 2000 and 5000 BC.
3. Electrical resistance tomography shows walls below the surface.
4. There is a mysterious layer of methane trapped 6-9 meters below the surface, which goes five meters deep. We know that this gas comes from organic matter. If a city were suddenly worshiped there, all the organic material associated with that culture would be trapped. After centuries its decomposition would produce gas.

Ancient cities-monuments in the Spanish hinterland for the rescued Atlanteans

Freund thought that the surviving atlanteans would have gone to other areas where they would have built smaller cities, like miniatures, in memory of their ruined homeland. To confirm this theory, he searched with a Spanish scientist in the surrounding area for archeological sites surrounded by several concentric moats, and eventually traveled to a museum containing many examples of "standing stones" engraved with a symbol resembling Plato's drawings of Atlantis.

"There are more than 100 of them, and they come from all different places in the area," Freund said. The similarity of the stones convinced Freund that the surviving Atlanteans had built tributes to their destroyed city throughout Spain.
"In crime, you follow the money," he said. "In archaeology, you follow the stones."

In addition to the above standing stones, the researchers' theory is strengthened by the discovery, in Central Spain, of a strange series of traces of other small cities, built according to the model of Atlantis, ie "memorial cities" that are considered to have been built by refugees from Atlantis, further north and deeper inside the country, in remembrance of their ruined homeland

One of these discoveries, made during archeological excavations in the 1970s and 1980s, is the ruins of Kancho Roana, which are the remains of a small monumental town inside the Donαna Park, 200 km from the port. There, in the Guadalquivir River Delta, scientists showed us the remains of a city built in steps, with many temples, few settlements and houses, and a deep round moat that surrounded the city. According to Freud, it was a "sacred city", a miniature of Atlantis.

The most fascinating point of the documentary is when the camera shows the most interesting find that has to do with Atlantis: On a stone, at the main entrance of Kancho Roano (there is also in many other cities) is engraved a symbolic representation. It is a relief secret symbol. The figure of a warrior is formed with a drawn sword that "guards" the entrance of the city, which is represented by concentric circles. The sign shows the concentric circles with a single input which is also an output. Its resemblance to Plato's description of the shape of Atlantis (three land rings and two water rings with an entrance-exit to the South, and in the middle the citadel with the palace of Poseidon) is obvious.  

Freud and his team try, with their research, to solve two ancient mysteries. One platonic and one biblical. The biblical refers to the lost city "Tharseis" which is mentioned many times in the Bible. Many experts believe that "Tharseis" is another name for the ancient famous city "Tartissos". Most experts agree that "Tartissos" was in southern Spain, as well as the city "Tharseis". According to Freud, "Tartissos" and "Tharseis" were one and the same. Ancient sources mention both cities as exploiting their metals. Merchant ships from the Middle East traveled for three years to obtain supplies from these cities. Surprisingly, both names disappeared from historical and biblical references. As if the city ceased to exist. This happened, according to Freud, because in antiquity "Tartissos-Tharseis" was known by another name, Atlantis. So Tharseis = Tartissos = Atlantis. All three cities are listed as important ports located on an island at the edge of the then known world where ships come from the great seas, it took 3 years to complete this voyage and as mysteriously disappeared. But their striking similarities continue. They were famous for their wealth in ores, mining huge quantities of gold, silver and copper. Even today, just above Donana, the three metals have been mined for 5,000 years on the shady hills of Rio Tinto. They are the famous mines of Rio Tinto.

A volcanic undersea rock which was formed in land!

In 1898, during the installation of a telegraphic line, broke one of the wires which had been installed in 2800 m depth at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the place which has been named since then "Telegraph square". While special machinery was trying to remove the edges of the wire from the bottom of the sea a strange rock was brought to the surface. Several years later, Paul Tremie, head of the oceonographical institude of France, organised a conference in Paris. That rock had obviously volcanic origin and the most importand was that it hadn' t been solidified in the bottom of the sea but in the air. That is, it must have come of a volcano whose crater was above sea level. It ,also, had sharp sides which were not been corrosive by water. By analyzing it, Tremie estimated that it must have been 15000 years old. Later undersea foundings confirmed that the same type of rocks existed in a huge area at the depth of the Atlantic Ocean.

(Republication from Anastasia Nanou's article "Searching for Atlantis", in the magazine "MYSTIC-mysteries of the world", July-August 2000)

A sunk by volcano or earthquake explosions, rock
island of volcanic origin which was found
in the Atlantic ocean

(The photo is from the magazine "MYSTIC-Mysteries
of the world", number 13, July-August 2000)

Sunk megaliths in archipelagos
 in Bahamas

In May 1969, in Bahamas and specifically in the coasts of the islands Bimini and Andros, the archaeologist Mansen Valentain and the researcher of the bottom of the sea Dimitri Rebikof localized architectural building in depth of 6 m until 30. It was a row of huge rocks perfectly cut which continued on the sandy bottom for several hundreds metres. Two parallel walls surpass in length the 600 m. The weight of only one stone length of 5 m, of a building, is about 25 tones!... Remains of some wall of Poseidonia, the capital of Atlantis or maybe for a satse the festive road of Mayia? The scientists of the university of Maiami who examined these buildings drew the conclusion that they were made between 10000-7000 B.C. which means that they are older than the Mayia' s pyramids.

Rectangular megaliths which are in big depth in
the archipelagos of Bimini in Bahamas

The carved in slab pilot in Palenque, Mexico

In the area of the ancient state of Palenque of the Maya was found in 1935 a slab on which a very strange carved representation is distinguished very clearly. It is a pilot of a flying ship while he is working in the inside (cabin). Various organs and equipment, levers, helms, pistons, springs pipes, conductors and cylinders are distinguised. This is the amazing gravestone of "the temple of the signs" of Palenque, Mexico. This gravestone 3,8 by 2,20 m covered a one-piece stony sarcophagus which contains human skeleton.

Gerardo Imbo, by interpreting the carved stone of Palenque, admits that "there were ancient civilizations with technological scientific development, even with flights of airships."

(Museum Atlantis) The wonderfull gravestone which was found
in 1935 in the "temple of the signs" in Palenque, Mexico.

A crystal cranium by quartz with movable jaw!

1927, Beginning of the summer:

In the area of the British Hondura, somewhere in the jungle an archaeological team is working feverishly. Suddenly a peculiar shine comes out of the ruins of the ancient city of Mayia. Frederic Michel Henzes who is the leader of the excavation discovers one of the strangest objects that have ever found: a crystal cranium made of mineral. Later when he reveals his founding in public the scientific community remains stunned. The founding impressed the archaeologists, deeply. But it impressed even more the scientists because that strange cranium was so perfect that it couldn't have been made by any modern method, not even by laser.

Its peculiarity is in the way it has been constructed and the material. It's made of only one clear transparent crystal quartz. The hollow of the eyes, the apses of the sides of the face, the below jaw which is movable, are perfectly made...but without the slightest scratch or spot. This means that no metall tools were used for its elaboration. The experts who examined it with the most up to date methods raised their hands. For many people this crystal cranium which nowadays is in Human's Museum in Paris, is an object which comes from an exceptionally high civilization who obtained a much broader knowledge than ours.

"I have no doubts that the crystal cranium was made during the Atlantis's time" stated Frank Dorland, conservation of artworks, who dedicated more than ten years in his study.

(Republication from Ioulia Pitsoulis' article, page 95, magazine BEAUTE, September 2000).

 The Trident of the Andes in Peru

In a mountain of Perou in Piscos Bay a very ancient trident (Atlantes's symbol) is displayed which is made of white stones with phosphoric brightness "stabbed" in the slope. It has 250 m length and sides of 3,8 m width. This trident leads to a marked airport shaped flat space in Nasca plain which is located 160 km from Pisco. Wide airstrips and radiated corridors are discerned which stand out because they shine. They are formed by rack fragments. When you see this space from above it gives you the impression of an airport with geometrical lines and signs like in the modern airfields.