Graham Hancock is a researcher, journalist, and author of over a dozen books including “Fingerprints of the Gods” and “America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization.” He also has a new Netflix series called “Ancient Apocalypse”.
In the Joe Rogan Experience#1897 w/ Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson episode Graham Hancock explains that Plato, which is the earliest surviving reference to Atlantis, tells the tale of when his ancestor Solon visited Egypt. We know about that visit as it has been historically recorded to have happened in 600 BC. There Solon claimed to have been told by Egyptian priests about this great advanced civilization that once existed, but that angered the gods, and was destroyed in an enormous flood. Solon asked those Egyptian priests, when it happened. They told Solon that this was 9 000 years ago. For us, that is 11 600 years ago. This is about the time of what is called “Meltwater pulse 1B“, which is one of the largest single rises “over night”/sudden in sea level that ever occurred. Thus, if Plato made it up, it is quite strange that he picked a time that is so closely coincides with the latest geological evidence on cataclysmic sea level rise at the end of the ice age.
This is some of the info that can be found on Wikipedia about Meltwater pulse 1B:
“Meltwater pulse 1B (MWP1b) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that some hypothesize to have occurred between 11 500 and 11 200 years ago at the beginning of the Holocene and after the end of the Younger Dryas.”
“There is considerable unresolved disagreement over the significance, timing, magnitude, and even existence of meltwater pulse 1B. It was first recognized by Fairbanks in his coral reef studies in Barbados. From the analysis of data from cores of coral reefs surrounding Barbados, he concluded that during meltwater pulse 1B, sea level rose 28 meters (92 ft) in about 500 years about 11 300 years ago.“
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