Investigating Rock Carvings | Atlantis Rising
Author George's Diaz Montek Sano has been researching this area for years, and he's convinced that some Atlantan refugees fled inland and built shrines to memorialize the lost city. Deciphering the shrine would help Giorgos prove his theory.
"No sir, a real mental ascent, a burgeoning compare Barkos Picomolar."
"Oh Jose Ramon, oh sorry Mo Calhoun."
According to George Oz, the epic of Atlantis is recorded in a series of Stone Age petroglyphs—images inscribed in stone telling the story of a ground city, a legendary port, and ships that once sailed the Atlantic.
"I think that we should shoot here, but it has got to mean the cameras are really up there to test this theory."
George's enlisted the help of engineer Ken Boydstun and Professor Gregory Hayworth, experts in forensic photography and spectral imaging, bringing lost images back to life.
"Yo pienso que la gente que opina que esto no es serio, simplemente por que no se dan cuenta."
"Milan serie, o yo creo en a bouquet arrested endosteum."
"A sensei, a cozia aquella Jenga."
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"Ready? Shoot!"
"Chitti, I'm using the strobe as a raking light which will bring out the shadows and the depth of the incisions in the rock."
"Oh yes, this is a horse with a long flowing mane."
"Chewy, I'm looking closely at the screen, and I like what I'm seeing. I can see the course much more clearly. I'm looking for signs of a horseshoe, which has a lip at the end, and I see no signs of a horseshoe at all, which means it's pre-Roman."
"That would be pre-Roman."
"Oh, oh, here we go. Okay, yeah, yeah, there's a bunch of stuff here."
The investigators see wide moat-like circles that surround the entire scene. I see a bunch of concentric circles, and in the middle of this, there's some roughly parallel straight lines.
"Concentric moat-like circles are exactly what Plato reports when describing Atlantis."
"What's that line right above the horse?"
"Well, it's a long wavy line, and actually there are a couple of them. There's one there, one further one up, and they could be mountains."
"Could they be wade clear water, or it could be underwater?"
"The way the horse is tilted downwards, if it's underwater, that could mean it's drowning, and it seems that it's not the only figure beneath the apparent line of water."
"That looks like a boat. That looks like a boat up in the right-hand corner."
"Zoom in a bit again. This one here looks like that means a hull—that accent of a hull of a boat."
"Yeah, yeah, and if that's the hull of a boat, that boat's underwater."
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