There is evidence to suggest that despite the immense disaster that
wiped out Atlantis, there were many survivors. Groups of people who settled along the entire western Atlantic seaboard.
Survivors.
By all accounts the Atlantis disaster must have occurred with deadly rapidity. In these circumstances the island would quickly have become enveloped in huge clouds of toxic
gases. Survival time would amount to less than several minutes. Yet here again we have the enigma of finds that indicate that a sizeable number of people were able to reach surrounding continents - both
in Europe and Africa, where their presence is quite obviously recorded.
Imprint of culture.
This mass exodus of survivors extends along the whole of the western European coastline - the imprint of a culture that from Senegal in Africa to the frozen tundras of
Scandinavia is remarkably consistent. We see it in their standing stones and circles and their love of megalithic tombs together with an indelibible record of art depicting flotillas of overlaiden boats
fleeing some terrible catastrophe.
Incredible transformation.
The pure and simple truth is that almost overnight the shores of this area are transformed by the arrival of a remarkably skilled people that appear to arrive out of
nowhere. Significantly there is no record of social evolution that would explain such skills, and we are left looking at a mystery with no obvious solution. None that is, unless we explain things in
terms of a vast exodus from an Atlantic island that no longer exists.
Flowering of civilsation.
An early assumption was that the first flowerings of civilisation arose in Mesopotamia. However there is a sizeable wealth of evidence that suggest another scenario. It is
the eastward spread of culture from the Atlantic shoreline - exactly what might be expected if a large body of displaced individuals from a once great civilsation were on the move. Moreover this eastward
migration is well documented and forms an enigmatic source point for an alternative to Mesopotamia as the cradle of civlisation.
