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Plato placed the destruction of Atlantis 9,000 years before Solon's journey to Egypt. Solon made that journey around 600 BC, approximately 2,600 years ago. The arithmetic is straightforward - 11,600 years before the present. That is the date Plato gave for a civilisation sinking beneath the waves during a catastrophic event. It is also, within the margin of current dating precision, the period known as Meltwater Pulse 1B - one of the most dramatic episodes of rapid sea level rise in the geological record, during which coastlines around the world were being swallowed at a rate that would have been visible within a human lifetime. Randall Carlson's point is not that this proves Atlantis existed. It is that Plato's date correlates precisely with a real, well-documented geological event characterised by exactly the kind of destruction he described. However, when historians and archaeologists notice this at all, it is filed under coincidence and set aside. At some point, Randall suggests, the convergence of independent lines of evidence deserves a more serious response than that.
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Plato placed the destruction of Atlantis 9,000 years before Solon's journey to Egypt. Solon made that journey around 600 BC, approximately 2,600 years ago. The arithmetic is straightforward - 11,600 years before the present. That is the date Plato gave for a civilisation sinking beneath the waves during a catastrophic event. It is also, within the margin of current dating precision, the period known as Meltwater Pulse 1B - one of the most dramatic episodes of rapid sea level rise in the geological record, during which coastlines around the world were being swallowed at a rate that would have been visible within a human lifetime. Randall Carlson's point is not that this proves Atlantis existed. It is that Plato's date correlates precisely with a real, well-documented geological event characterised by exactly the kind of destruction he described. However, when historians and archaeologists notice this at all, it is filed under coincidence and set aside. At some point, Randall suggests, the convergence of independent lines of evidence deserves a more serious response than that.

Randall Carlson

58,057 views • 5 months ago

At 11,600 years ago there was a catastrophic sea level rise event - Meltwater pulse 1B - documented in the marine geological record. Plato's account of the demise of Atlantis, transmitted through a chain of sources from Solon through Critias the Elder to Critias the Younger and finally to Socrates and Plato himself, places the sinking of Atlantis at the same moment. The mechanism Plato describes is precise - earthquake and rapid sea level rise. The geological record at that precise date shows exactly that. Randall is not prepared to dismiss that convergence as coincidence - and he states that position directly. A skeptic would call it coincidence. Randall finds that response insufficient when the date, the mechanism, and the geographical framework all align simultaneously. Plato was not describing a metaphor or a moral fable. He was transmitting a chronology received from Egyptian sources that places the subsidence of a mid-Atlantic landmass at precisely the moment the marine geology shows a catastrophic pulse of meltwater entering the world's oceans. The two accounts - one preserved in Greek philosophical dialogue, the other recorded in the sedimentary record of the ocean floor - are describing the same event from opposite ends of the evidence. Click here to step into the field with Randall and unlock the hidden story of the Finger Lakes on his upcoming tour 👇
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At 11,600 years ago there was a catastrophic sea level rise event - Meltwater pulse 1B - documented in the marine geological record. Plato's account of the demise of Atlantis, transmitted through a chain of sources from Solon through Critias the Elder to Critias the Younger and finally to Socrates and Plato himself, places the sinking of Atlantis at the same moment. The mechanism Plato describes is precise - earthquake and rapid sea level rise. The geological record at that precise date shows exactly that. Randall is not prepared to dismiss that convergence as coincidence - and he states that position directly. A skeptic would call it coincidence. Randall finds that response insufficient when the date, the mechanism, and the geographical framework all align simultaneously. Plato was not describing a metaphor or a moral fable. He was transmitting a chronology received from Egyptian sources that places the subsidence of a mid-Atlantic landmass at precisely the moment the marine geology shows a catastrophic pulse of meltwater entering the world's oceans. The two accounts - one preserved in Greek philosophical dialogue, the other recorded in the sedimentary record of the ocean floor - are describing the same event from opposite ends of the evidence. Click here to step into the field with Randall and unlock the hidden story of the Finger Lakes on his upcoming tour 👇

Randall Carlson

10,618 views • 4 months ago

You have heard of Atlantis, the island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. What you may not know is that Plato gave a precise date for when it sank, and that modern science has found a real event that happened at almost exactly that moment. First, it is worth remembering what Plato actually wrote. We tend to treat Atlantis as a myth he invented. But in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, Plato does not present it as a fable or an allegory at all... The story, he says, had been carried to Athens by the great lawgiver Solon, who had traveled to Egypt and heard it from the priests of the city of Sais, keepers of records far older than Greece. One old priest tells Solon: "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you." The Greeks, he says, have forgotten their own past, while the Egyptians had written it down. And the priest gives a specific timeframe. The war between the Proto-Athenians and Atlantis, he says, took place 9,000 years before Solon's visit. Then, in Plato's words: "there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea." Nine thousand years before Solon places the event at roughly 11,600 years ago. And here is where it becomes strange... That date, 11,600 years ago, is almost exactly when one of the most dramatic climate transitions in the recent history of the planet came to an end. Geologists call it the Younger Dryas: a period when the Earth, already warming out of the last Ice Age, suddenly plunged back into near-glacial cold for more than a thousand years. According to modern science, that cold period ended around 11,600 years ago, and it ended abruptly. The warming returned with great speed, and the great ice sheets resumed melting. That melting is the part that matters here. Some scientists have identified a phase of rapid sea-level rise at the close of the Younger Dryas, beginning around 11,500 years ago, known as Meltwater Pulse 1B. The studies that support it describe sea levels surging upward as the ice sheets collapsed, drowning coastlines that had stood for thousands of years. Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis, in other words, falls almost exactly on the moment when modern science says the oceans may have risen suddenly and swallowed land at the end of the Ice Age. I want to be careful and honest here: none of this proves that Atlantis was real. Most scholars believe Plato invented the story to illustrate his ideas about pride and the fall of great civilizations, and they may well be right. But the coincidence is hard to shake. A philosopher in the fourth century BC, insisting he was recording true history passed down from a people who kept ancient records, said that a great land was destroyed by floods roughly 11,600 years ago. And thousands of years later, with ice cores and radiocarbon dating, we discovered that the last Ice Age really did end at almost exactly that moment, in melting ice and rising seas. Plato could not have known any of this. He had no way to date the end of the Ice Age, no way to know that the oceans had once risen and erased the old coastlines of the world. And yet the moment he chose, for the drowning of his lost civilization, is the same moment the seas truly rose. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Or perhaps the Egyptians, as the priest told Solon, simply remembered something the rest of us forgot. Maybe we really are a species with amnesia... I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.
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You have heard of Atlantis, the island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. What you may not know is that Plato gave a precise date for when it sank, and that modern science has found a real event that happened at almost exactly that moment. First, it is worth remembering what Plato actually wrote. We tend to treat Atlantis as a myth he invented. But in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BC, Plato does not present it as a fable or an allegory at all... The story, he says, had been carried to Athens by the great lawgiver Solon, who had traveled to Egypt and heard it from the priests of the city of Sais, keepers of records far older than Greece. One old priest tells Solon: "O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you." The Greeks, he says, have forgotten their own past, while the Egyptians had written it down. And the priest gives a specific timeframe. The war between the Proto-Athenians and Atlantis, he says, took place 9,000 years before Solon's visit. Then, in Plato's words: "there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune... the island of Atlantis disappeared in the depths of the sea." Nine thousand years before Solon places the event at roughly 11,600 years ago. And here is where it becomes strange... That date, 11,600 years ago, is almost exactly when one of the most dramatic climate transitions in the recent history of the planet came to an end. Geologists call it the Younger Dryas: a period when the Earth, already warming out of the last Ice Age, suddenly plunged back into near-glacial cold for more than a thousand years. According to modern science, that cold period ended around 11,600 years ago, and it ended abruptly. The warming returned with great speed, and the great ice sheets resumed melting. That melting is the part that matters here. Some scientists have identified a phase of rapid sea-level rise at the close of the Younger Dryas, beginning around 11,500 years ago, known as Meltwater Pulse 1B. The studies that support it describe sea levels surging upward as the ice sheets collapsed, drowning coastlines that had stood for thousands of years. Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis, in other words, falls almost exactly on the moment when modern science says the oceans may have risen suddenly and swallowed land at the end of the Ice Age. I want to be careful and honest here: none of this proves that Atlantis was real. Most scholars believe Plato invented the story to illustrate his ideas about pride and the fall of great civilizations, and they may well be right. But the coincidence is hard to shake. A philosopher in the fourth century BC, insisting he was recording true history passed down from a people who kept ancient records, said that a great land was destroyed by floods roughly 11,600 years ago. And thousands of years later, with ice cores and radiocarbon dating, we discovered that the last Ice Age really did end at almost exactly that moment, in melting ice and rising seas. Plato could not have known any of this. He had no way to date the end of the Ice Age, no way to know that the oceans had once risen and erased the old coastlines of the world. And yet the moment he chose, for the drowning of his lost civilization, is the same moment the seas truly rose. Perhaps it's just a coincidence. Or perhaps the Egyptians, as the priest told Solon, simply remembered something the rest of us forgot. Maybe we really are a species with amnesia... I started this newsletter because our past is extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us how to truly see it. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible: Thanks for reading.

James Lucas

39,911 views • 1 month ago

Graham Hancock reveals that over 300 ancient myths assert a “global cataclysm” destroyed a “golden age” of civilization thousands of years ago. The evidence for Atlantis goes much deeper than you think. And the evidence of a global flood around 11,600 years ago is only getting stronger. Randall Carlson: “When you bring the geophysics into it … it is the rapid melting of the ice sheets, not only North American, but also the North European.” “The timing suggests that the catastrophic melting of both sheets happened in a series of huge pulses of meltwater.” “The final pulse of that meltwater, meltwater pulse 1B … is dated 11,600 years ago.” “Plato told us that 2,300 years ago.” Hancock: “In the ancient Persian accounts, what is described is less of a flood and more of an incredible deep freeze from which people must seek shelter by digging underground.” Carlson: “I even speculate there was a preliminary catastrophe associated with meltwater pulse 1A that could have happened about 14,600.” Hancock: “If there was a lost civilization, that earlier event would have … made them pay attention to all of this, and to be in some state of preparedness when the real cataclysms of the Younger Dryas took place.” Follow Holden Culotta Graham Hancock Randall Carlson
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Graham Hancock reveals that over 300 ancient myths assert a “global cataclysm” destroyed a “golden age” of civilization thousands of years ago. The evidence for Atlantis goes much deeper than you think. And the evidence of a global flood around 11,600 years ago is only getting stronger. Randall Carlson: “When you bring the geophysics into it … it is the rapid melting of the ice sheets, not only North American, but also the North European.” “The timing suggests that the catastrophic melting of both sheets happened in a series of huge pulses of meltwater.” “The final pulse of that meltwater, meltwater pulse 1B … is dated 11,600 years ago.” “Plato told us that 2,300 years ago.” Hancock: “In the ancient Persian accounts, what is described is less of a flood and more of an incredible deep freeze from which people must seek shelter by digging underground.” Carlson: “I even speculate there was a preliminary catastrophe associated with meltwater pulse 1A that could have happened about 14,600.” Hancock: “If there was a lost civilization, that earlier event would have … made them pay attention to all of this, and to be in some state of preparedness when the real cataclysms of the Younger Dryas took place.” Follow Holden Culotta Graham Hancock Randall Carlson

Holden Culotta

69,109 views • 6 months ago

Solon’s trip to Egypt in 600 BC unlocked a mystery. The priests claimed they had preserved the tale of Atlantis in sacred registers—for 9,000 years. Do the math… that places the catastrophe at 11,600 years ago. The exact timing of the Younger Dryas meltwater pulse. Coincidence—or confirmation of ancient memory?
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Solon’s trip to Egypt in 600 BC unlocked a mystery. The priests claimed they had preserved the tale of Atlantis in sacred registers—for 9,000 years. Do the math… that places the catastrophe at 11,600 years ago. The exact timing of the Younger Dryas meltwater pulse. Coincidence—or confirmation of ancient memory?

Randall Carlson

35,311 views • 1 year ago

Plato dated the sinking of Atlantis to 11,600 years ago...nine millennia before Solon’s time in Egypt. In an age without books or written archives, knowledge was preserved through oral tradition, passed with precision from teacher to initiate. The responsibility was sacred: not a single word could change. From the priests of Egypt to Native American storytellers, and even within modern Freemasonry, the discipline of unbroken transmission carries echoes of a time when memory itself was the library of civilization.
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Plato dated the sinking of Atlantis to 11,600 years ago...nine millennia before Solon’s time in Egypt. In an age without books or written archives, knowledge was preserved through oral tradition, passed with precision from teacher to initiate. The responsibility was sacred: not a single word could change. From the priests of Egypt to Native American storytellers, and even within modern Freemasonry, the discipline of unbroken transmission carries echoes of a time when memory itself was the library of civilization.

Randall Carlson

68,156 views • 9 months ago

When Solon visited Egypt, the priests told him something that should stop you in your tracks. You Greeks, they said, are like children. And the reason? You only remember one flood. They named three. Now that was preserved through Plato, and for a long time it was easy to file that away as mythology and move on. But here is where it gets interesting. Go to the geological record and you find meltwater Pulse 1A at around 14,500 years ago. Then meltwater Pulse 1B at approximately 11,600 years ago, which is precisely the date Plato gives for the subsidence of Atlantis. And now evidence is emerging for a third major meltwater event right at the onset of the Younger Dryas itself. So you have an ancient priestly tradition naming three floods, and you have the stratigraphic record pointing to three distinct pulses of catastrophic sea level rise. At what point does that stop being a coincidence worth dismissing and start being a correspondence worth investigating? That is the question. The Egyptian priests were not writing poetry. They appear to have been preserving an actual record of events, transmitted across generations with enough precision that the dates still line up with what ocean cores and coastal geology are now recovering independently.
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When Solon visited Egypt, the priests told him something that should stop you in your tracks. You Greeks, they said, are like children. And the reason? You only remember one flood. They named three. Now that was preserved through Plato, and for a long time it was easy to file that away as mythology and move on. But here is where it gets interesting. Go to the geological record and you find meltwater Pulse 1A at around 14,500 years ago. Then meltwater Pulse 1B at approximately 11,600 years ago, which is precisely the date Plato gives for the subsidence of Atlantis. And now evidence is emerging for a third major meltwater event right at the onset of the Younger Dryas itself. So you have an ancient priestly tradition naming three floods, and you have the stratigraphic record pointing to three distinct pulses of catastrophic sea level rise. At what point does that stop being a coincidence worth dismissing and start being a correspondence worth investigating? That is the question. The Egyptian priests were not writing poetry. They appear to have been preserving an actual record of events, transmitted across generations with enough precision that the dates still line up with what ocean cores and coastal geology are now recovering independently.

Randall Carlson

65,111 views • 2 months ago

The Atlantis story, as Plato tells it, isn't just about a lost island. It's about a war, a geopolitical conflict that spanned the entire Mediterranean basin nine thousand years before Solon's time. According to the Egyptian priests, this Atlantic power attempted to subjugate every civilization inside the Mediterranean. The proto-Athenians, as Randall calls them, organized a defensive coalition and drove the invaders back across the ocean. Then, immediately following that war, came the catastrophe: seismic upheavals that destroyed the Atlantic civilization at its source. The timing matters. The sequence matters. War, then cataclysm. If you take the account seriously, you're not just looking at mythology. You're looking at a preserved memory of geopolitical collapse tied to a natural disaster of extraordinary scale. That's the framework Plato inherited, and it's the framework we should be examining with the geological and archaeological record in mind. Ready to go deeper into the evidence? Join Kosmogonia University and explore the data behind the myths:
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The Atlantis story, as Plato tells it, isn't just about a lost island. It's about a war, a geopolitical conflict that spanned the entire Mediterranean basin nine thousand years before Solon's time. According to the Egyptian priests, this Atlantic power attempted to subjugate every civilization inside the Mediterranean. The proto-Athenians, as Randall calls them, organized a defensive coalition and drove the invaders back across the ocean. Then, immediately following that war, came the catastrophe: seismic upheavals that destroyed the Atlantic civilization at its source. The timing matters. The sequence matters. War, then cataclysm. If you take the account seriously, you're not just looking at mythology. You're looking at a preserved memory of geopolitical collapse tied to a natural disaster of extraordinary scale. That's the framework Plato inherited, and it's the framework we should be examining with the geological and archaeological record in mind. Ready to go deeper into the evidence? Join Kosmogonia University and explore the data behind the myths:

Randall Carlson

15,839 views • 12 days ago

The popular version of the Atlantis story fixates on the submergence, the island going under in a single catastrophic day and night. But if you actually go back and read what Plato wrote, the account is more layered than that, and the details that get glossed over are precisely the ones worth examining. There was a war before any of this happened. A civilization based outside the Straits of Hercules had been pushing inward, subjugating the peoples of the Mediterranean. What Plato describes as proto-Athenians organized a resistance, drove the Atlanteans back, and it was only in the immediate aftermath of that conflict that the geological catastrophe occurred. Here is the detail almost everybody misses. Plato does not describe the subsidence of Atlantis in isolation. He ties it directly to a severe erosional episode on the Greek peninsula itself, a landscape-scale stripping of soil and vegetation that left the bedrock exposed. If you have a catastrophic subsidence event in one location and a severe erosional event in another happening simultaneously, you are not looking at something localized. You are looking at a broad regional disturbance, and that description maps considerably more naturally onto the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis than onto any conventional tectonic explanation.
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The popular version of the Atlantis story fixates on the submergence, the island going under in a single catastrophic day and night. But if you actually go back and read what Plato wrote, the account is more layered than that, and the details that get glossed over are precisely the ones worth examining. There was a war before any of this happened. A civilization based outside the Straits of Hercules had been pushing inward, subjugating the peoples of the Mediterranean. What Plato describes as proto-Athenians organized a resistance, drove the Atlanteans back, and it was only in the immediate aftermath of that conflict that the geological catastrophe occurred. Here is the detail almost everybody misses. Plato does not describe the subsidence of Atlantis in isolation. He ties it directly to a severe erosional episode on the Greek peninsula itself, a landscape-scale stripping of soil and vegetation that left the bedrock exposed. If you have a catastrophic subsidence event in one location and a severe erosional event in another happening simultaneously, you are not looking at something localized. You are looking at a broad regional disturbance, and that description maps considerably more naturally onto the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis than onto any conventional tectonic explanation.

Randall Carlson

36,920 views • 2 months ago

At the peak of the last ice age, 20,000 years ago, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today. As the ice sheets melted, oceans surged upward, rising at an average of 15 mm per year between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. During 'Meltwater Pulse 1A', seas shot up by 50 feet in just 500 years - a foot per decade as ice sheets collapsed. But by 6,000 years ago, the Great Melt was largely complete. Since then, sea levels have been relatively stable. Yet today, we're told to believe that the last few inches are catastrophic and all our fault, not part of the natural cycles that have driven Earth's climate time immemorial. That ignores history, data and basic science. The rate of rise we've seen over the past centuries is not increasing, according to global tidal gauge data. A recent study of 204 tidal gauges worldwide found 95% show no statistical acceleration, and the few that do are explained by local land motion/subsidence - not climate change.
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At the peak of the last ice age, 20,000 years ago, sea levels were 400 feet lower than today. As the ice sheets melted, oceans surged upward, rising at an average of 15 mm per year between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. During 'Meltwater Pulse 1A', seas shot up by 50 feet in just 500 years - a foot per decade as ice sheets collapsed. But by 6,000 years ago, the Great Melt was largely complete. Since then, sea levels have been relatively stable. Yet today, we're told to believe that the last few inches are catastrophic and all our fault, not part of the natural cycles that have driven Earth's climate time immemorial. That ignores history, data and basic science. The rate of rise we've seen over the past centuries is not increasing, according to global tidal gauge data. A recent study of 204 tidal gauges worldwide found 95% show no statistical acceleration, and the few that do are explained by local land motion/subsidence - not climate change.

Electroverse

51,933 views • 5 months ago

The ancient Egyptian temple in this video (Hathors Temple, Dendera) is believed to be one of the sacred text repositories where the story of Atlantis was carved into the stone. In the Timaeus, an elderly Egyptian priest criticises the Greeks for remembering only relatively recent history. He tells Solon that humanity has repeatedly suffered catastrophes and that Egypt’s written records preserve events the Greeks have forgotten. “O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children.” The priest explains that the Greeks have lost their ancient records through repeated catastrophes, whereas Egyptian temples preserved written accounts from much earlier periods. He then claims that Solon’s own Athens had existed in a much earlier form thousands of years previously. Atlantis is then introduced as one of the events supposedly preserved in those Egyptian records. “These histories tell of a mighty power…” He says Atlantis possessed: “a great and wonderful empire” and that its influence extended through the Mediterranean world. Plato explicitly says the Atlanteans had conquered North African territory: ”…as far as Egypt…” and European territory as far as Tyrrhenia, broadly associated with Etruscan Italy. So Egypt isn’t merely where Solon allegedly heard the story. Egypt itself appears geographically within the Atlantis narrative. Then comes the destruction The Egyptian account supposedly told Solon that ancient Athens resisted Atlantis. Afterward: “there occurred violent earthquakes and floods” Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea. Plato places these events 9,000 years before Solon’s conversation with the Egyptian priests. If Solon’s Egyptian visit is placed around 600 BCE, the internal chronology points roughly toward 9600 BCE. That date lands very close to the end of the Younger Dryas, when major climatic changes were occurring. In Critias, Plato explains why the supposedly Atlantean people have Greek-sounding names. According to the story, Solon discovered that: “those Egyptians who had first written them down had translated them into their own tongue.” Solon supposedly translated the meanings back into Greek and wrote them down. So Plato’s claimed chain of transmission is effectively: Atlantis → ancient historical tradition → Egyptian records → Egyptian priests at Sais → Solon → Solon’s notes/tradition → Critias → Plato. A few centuries later, the Neoplatonist Proclus discussed an earlier philosopher named Crantor (c. 4th–3rd century BCE), one of the earliest commentators on Plato. Proclus reports that Crantor treated the Atlantis account as historical and, according to Proclus’s account, said that Egyptian priests claimed the story was still recorded on Egyptian pillars. Footage from one of my earlier trips to Egypt, recorded in the subterranean and forbidden upper-tier sections of Hathors Temple, Dendera.
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The ancient Egyptian temple in this video (Hathors Temple, Dendera) is believed to be one of the sacred text repositories where the story of Atlantis was carved into the stone. In the Timaeus, an elderly Egyptian priest criticises the Greeks for remembering only relatively recent history. He tells Solon that humanity has repeatedly suffered catastrophes and that Egypt’s written records preserve events the Greeks have forgotten. “O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children.” The priest explains that the Greeks have lost their ancient records through repeated catastrophes, whereas Egyptian temples preserved written accounts from much earlier periods. He then claims that Solon’s own Athens had existed in a much earlier form thousands of years previously. Atlantis is then introduced as one of the events supposedly preserved in those Egyptian records. “These histories tell of a mighty power…” He says Atlantis possessed: “a great and wonderful empire” and that its influence extended through the Mediterranean world. Plato explicitly says the Atlanteans had conquered North African territory: ”…as far as Egypt…” and European territory as far as Tyrrhenia, broadly associated with Etruscan Italy. So Egypt isn’t merely where Solon allegedly heard the story. Egypt itself appears geographically within the Atlantis narrative. Then comes the destruction The Egyptian account supposedly told Solon that ancient Athens resisted Atlantis. Afterward: “there occurred violent earthquakes and floods” Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea. Plato places these events 9,000 years before Solon’s conversation with the Egyptian priests. If Solon’s Egyptian visit is placed around 600 BCE, the internal chronology points roughly toward 9600 BCE. That date lands very close to the end of the Younger Dryas, when major climatic changes were occurring. In Critias, Plato explains why the supposedly Atlantean people have Greek-sounding names. According to the story, Solon discovered that: “those Egyptians who had first written them down had translated them into their own tongue.” Solon supposedly translated the meanings back into Greek and wrote them down. So Plato’s claimed chain of transmission is effectively: Atlantis → ancient historical tradition → Egyptian records → Egyptian priests at Sais → Solon → Solon’s notes/tradition → Critias → Plato. A few centuries later, the Neoplatonist Proclus discussed an earlier philosopher named Crantor (c. 4th–3rd century BCE), one of the earliest commentators on Plato. Proclus reports that Crantor treated the Atlantis account as historical and, according to Proclus’s account, said that Egyptian priests claimed the story was still recorded on Egyptian pillars. Footage from one of my earlier trips to Egypt, recorded in the subterranean and forbidden upper-tier sections of Hathors Temple, Dendera.

Jay Anderson

53,594 views • 7 days ago

Start with a single cubic mile of ice and convert it instantaneously to water. The flood that produces would be enormous by any human standard. Now multiply that by six million - the estimated volume of glacial ice sitting on the continental landmasses of North America and Eurasia at the peak of the last Ice Age. All of it is gone now. The question Randall Carlson forces is deceptively simple: how fast did it go? If that volume of ice melted gradually over 50,000 or 100,000 years, the resulting sea level rise and meltwater discharge would be spread thinly enough across time to look almost imperceptible in any given century. But if the same six million cubic miles of ice melted over three, four, or five thousand years - as the evidence increasingly suggests - the implications are categorically different. The meltwater pulses, the catastrophic floods, the rapid sea level rises recorded in the geological record all point toward a process that was far faster and far more violent than the gradualist model has ever been comfortable acknowledging. The ice did not gently fade. It collapsed. Join Randall in the field in New York State for his Finger Lakes Tour, Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2026:
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Start with a single cubic mile of ice and convert it instantaneously to water. The flood that produces would be enormous by any human standard. Now multiply that by six million - the estimated volume of glacial ice sitting on the continental landmasses of North America and Eurasia at the peak of the last Ice Age. All of it is gone now. The question Randall Carlson forces is deceptively simple: how fast did it go? If that volume of ice melted gradually over 50,000 or 100,000 years, the resulting sea level rise and meltwater discharge would be spread thinly enough across time to look almost imperceptible in any given century. But if the same six million cubic miles of ice melted over three, four, or five thousand years - as the evidence increasingly suggests - the implications are categorically different. The meltwater pulses, the catastrophic floods, the rapid sea level rises recorded in the geological record all point toward a process that was far faster and far more violent than the gradualist model has ever been comfortable acknowledging. The ice did not gently fade. It collapsed. Join Randall in the field in New York State for his Finger Lakes Tour, Aug 30 - Sep 5, 2026:

Randall Carlson

99,091 views • 3 months ago

He describes the Younger Dryas as the last gasp of the ice age, a period that defies simple explanations. After thousands of years of gradual warming, the planet plunged back into full glacial conditions in less than a year. That reversal lasted twelve to thirteen hundred years before the climate lurched out of it just as abruptly, if not faster. The speed and magnitude of these shifts challenge conventional thinking about how climate systems operate. He emphasizes that this wasn't a slow drift but a catastrophic snap, both entering and exiting the cold period. The evidence points to mechanisms far more dramatic than the gradual processes typically invoked in mainstream climate science.
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He describes the Younger Dryas as the last gasp of the ice age, a period that defies simple explanations. After thousands of years of gradual warming, the planet plunged back into full glacial conditions in less than a year. That reversal lasted twelve to thirteen hundred years before the climate lurched out of it just as abruptly, if not faster. The speed and magnitude of these shifts challenge conventional thinking about how climate systems operate. He emphasizes that this wasn't a slow drift but a catastrophic snap, both entering and exiting the cold period. The evidence points to mechanisms far more dramatic than the gradual processes typically invoked in mainstream climate science.

Randall Carlson

27,079 views • 2 months ago

The Egyptian priests told Solon that the Greeks were like children because they only remembered one great flood. There were at least three, they said, and their sacred registers preserved records going back 9,000 years. This is the framing of the Atlantis story in Plato's dialogues, and it's worth taking seriously. The priests weren't just telling myths. They were pointing to a deeper historical memory that survived in Egypt because the Nile Valley was geographically insulated from the catastrophes that repeatedly wiped out civilizations elsewhere. What gets dismissed as legend may actually be the fragmentary memory of real events, preserved in the one place that had continuous institutional record-keeping.
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The Egyptian priests told Solon that the Greeks were like children because they only remembered one great flood. There were at least three, they said, and their sacred registers preserved records going back 9,000 years. This is the framing of the Atlantis story in Plato's dialogues, and it's worth taking seriously. The priests weren't just telling myths. They were pointing to a deeper historical memory that survived in Egypt because the Nile Valley was geographically insulated from the catastrophes that repeatedly wiped out civilizations elsewhere. What gets dismissed as legend may actually be the fragmentary memory of real events, preserved in the one place that had continuous institutional record-keeping.

Randall Carlson

65,958 views • 12 days ago

The terminal moraines left by Little Ice Age glaciers are preserved across the landscape worldwide, and what they show is unambiguous - those glaciers reached their greatest extent since the end of the great Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago. The Little Ice Age represented a cold extreme within the Holocene, not a neutral mid-point in a stable climate system. Randall Carlson's argument is geological rather than political. When sea level rise and temperature increase are measured against a baseline drawn from the end of the Little Ice Age, that baseline sits at one of the coldest points of the last 10,000 years. A return from an anomalous cold extreme toward the warmer conditions that characterised most of the Holocene will, by definition, produce an upward curve on any graph. Understanding what that curve actually represents - a recovery from a cold outlier or something genuinely unprecedented - requires placing it within the full context of natural climate variability over deep time. The terminal moraines are part of that context, and they are rarely part of the conversation.
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The terminal moraines left by Little Ice Age glaciers are preserved across the landscape worldwide, and what they show is unambiguous - those glaciers reached their greatest extent since the end of the great Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago. The Little Ice Age represented a cold extreme within the Holocene, not a neutral mid-point in a stable climate system. Randall Carlson's argument is geological rather than political. When sea level rise and temperature increase are measured against a baseline drawn from the end of the Little Ice Age, that baseline sits at one of the coldest points of the last 10,000 years. A return from an anomalous cold extreme toward the warmer conditions that characterised most of the Holocene will, by definition, produce an upward curve on any graph. Understanding what that curve actually represents - a recovery from a cold outlier or something genuinely unprecedented - requires placing it within the full context of natural climate variability over deep time. The terminal moraines are part of that context, and they are rarely part of the conversation.

Randall Carlson

25,152 views • 3 months ago

The question of Atlantis has always been treated as mythology. Randall approaches it as a geological problem - and he has a specific answer. The most likely candidate, in his assessment, is the Azores microcontinent, a submerged landmass roughly the size of Iceland sitting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the triple plate junction where the Eurasian, North American, and African plates converge. That location is not speculative. It is one of the most geologically dynamic points on the planet's surface. What moves the argument from interesting to empirically grounded is the data Randall cites. There is measurable evidence suggesting the Azores microcontinent was above sea level during the late glacial maximum - the period before the ice sheets melted and redistributed their mass into the world's oceans. The process Randall describes is the same one operating at Hudson Bay - trillions of tons of glacial weight transferring into the North Atlantic, forcing the sea bottom to adjust as the geoid constantly works to reestablish equilibrium. That adjustment didn't just raise some landmasses. It submerged others. Randall’s argument is that the Azores microcontinent was one of them - and that what went beneath the water when the ice melted may be exactly what Plato was describing.
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The question of Atlantis has always been treated as mythology. Randall approaches it as a geological problem - and he has a specific answer. The most likely candidate, in his assessment, is the Azores microcontinent, a submerged landmass roughly the size of Iceland sitting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the triple plate junction where the Eurasian, North American, and African plates converge. That location is not speculative. It is one of the most geologically dynamic points on the planet's surface. What moves the argument from interesting to empirically grounded is the data Randall cites. There is measurable evidence suggesting the Azores microcontinent was above sea level during the late glacial maximum - the period before the ice sheets melted and redistributed their mass into the world's oceans. The process Randall describes is the same one operating at Hudson Bay - trillions of tons of glacial weight transferring into the North Atlantic, forcing the sea bottom to adjust as the geoid constantly works to reestablish equilibrium. That adjustment didn't just raise some landmasses. It submerged others. Randall’s argument is that the Azores microcontinent was one of them - and that what went beneath the water when the ice melted may be exactly what Plato was describing.

Randall Carlson

18,234 views • 5 months ago

The Carolina Bays may be linked to an ancient asteroid impact on the Laurentide Ice Sheet, as proposed in Savage's work. He theorized a mid-Pleistocene event 780,000 years ago where an impact near Saginaw Bay generated a cavitated ejecta blanket of sand and meltwater, forming the elliptical depressions observed today.
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The Carolina Bays may be linked to an ancient asteroid impact on the Laurentide Ice Sheet, as proposed in Savage's work. He theorized a mid-Pleistocene event 780,000 years ago where an impact near Saginaw Bay generated a cavitated ejecta blanket of sand and meltwater, forming the elliptical depressions observed today.

Randall Carlson

11,290 views • 1 year ago

He walks through a 1976 study on Hudson Bay's isostatic rebound, the land rising after ice removal, and what it reveals about the Laurentide Ice Sheet's collapse. The abstract describes an ice unloading model requiring the central dome to have collapsed between 12,000 and 10,000 years before present in radiocarbon years. But here's the critical adjustment: in 1976, researchers were only beginning to revise and calibrate radiocarbon dates. Add the necessary correction, roughly 2,000 years, and the collapse window shifts to between 14,000 and 12,000 years ago. That timing places the event squarely within the Younger Dryas boundary period, when catastrophic meltwater pulses and rapid climate shifts were already underway. The rebound data from the Ottawa Islands doesn't just track uplift. It tracks the speed and scale of ice loss, and the numbers point to something sudden, not gradual.
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He walks through a 1976 study on Hudson Bay's isostatic rebound, the land rising after ice removal, and what it reveals about the Laurentide Ice Sheet's collapse. The abstract describes an ice unloading model requiring the central dome to have collapsed between 12,000 and 10,000 years before present in radiocarbon years. But here's the critical adjustment: in 1976, researchers were only beginning to revise and calibrate radiocarbon dates. Add the necessary correction, roughly 2,000 years, and the collapse window shifts to between 14,000 and 12,000 years ago. That timing places the event squarely within the Younger Dryas boundary period, when catastrophic meltwater pulses and rapid climate shifts were already underway. The rebound data from the Ottawa Islands doesn't just track uplift. It tracks the speed and scale of ice loss, and the numbers point to something sudden, not gradual.

Randall Carlson

10,450 views • 2 months ago

This may be the strongest evidence for the location of Atlantis yet. Independent geologist Randall Carlson just visited the Azores. And he revealed to Graham Hancock why he’s convinced this was most likely the heart of ancient Atlantean civilization: “There’s definitely evidence that’s consistent with catastrophic episodes in the recent geological past.” “After a detailed reading of multiple translations of Plato’s two relevant dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, and having some knowledge of the marine geology … it looks to me like of all the possible candidates that have been proposed for the locus of the Atlantean civilization, the one that seems to fit Plato’s very precise details … the most, in my mind, is the Azores.” “It has a lot of the earmarks of having undergone catastrophic subsidence in the very recent geological past.” “Plato’s description of geography is very consistent, beyond the west of the Pillars of Heracles, you encounter islands, and then beyond those is the island complex of Atlantis.” “And then beyond that, as he describes it, is the true continent—” Hancock: “Which we have to read as the Americas.” Carlson: “The nine islands of the Azores have their roots in the microcontinent, as it’s called, and they’re essentially mountains … whose peaks are above sea level.” “We had a professional geologist traveling with us, and he admitted, yes, there is evidence here that would be more consistent with a continental bedrock than oceanic bedrock.” Graham Hancock Randall Carlson
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This may be the strongest evidence for the location of Atlantis yet. Independent geologist Randall Carlson just visited the Azores. And he revealed to Graham Hancock why he’s convinced this was most likely the heart of ancient Atlantean civilization: “There’s definitely evidence that’s consistent with catastrophic episodes in the recent geological past.” “After a detailed reading of multiple translations of Plato’s two relevant dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, and having some knowledge of the marine geology … it looks to me like of all the possible candidates that have been proposed for the locus of the Atlantean civilization, the one that seems to fit Plato’s very precise details … the most, in my mind, is the Azores.” “It has a lot of the earmarks of having undergone catastrophic subsidence in the very recent geological past.” “Plato’s description of geography is very consistent, beyond the west of the Pillars of Heracles, you encounter islands, and then beyond those is the island complex of Atlantis.” “And then beyond that, as he describes it, is the true continent—” Hancock: “Which we have to read as the Americas.” Carlson: “The nine islands of the Azores have their roots in the microcontinent, as it’s called, and they’re essentially mountains … whose peaks are above sea level.” “We had a professional geologist traveling with us, and he admitted, yes, there is evidence here that would be more consistent with a continental bedrock than oceanic bedrock.” Graham Hancock Randall Carlson

Holden Culotta

51,789 views • 6 months ago