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Edward Alexander

Researcher & founder of AAR

Welcome to the Homepage of American Atlantis Research!

This website and the research and theories presented here is the work of a non-profit organization which is named American Atlantis Research. This group focuses exclusively on the legend of Atlantis and the studies, work and research related to locating Atlantis. Our main guide is the descriptions given by Plato himself on where Atlantis was located, taking in consideration its size and how he described the people living there as well. The local legends and myths and physical evidence present at the areas of interests are also taken in strong consideration in our work. We are also out in the field researching and trying to get more insights and knowledge about the Atlantean kingdom and its people by visiting the sites we believe to be of Atlantean origin.

Here you will find our own thoughts about Atlantis and its whereabouts, as well as information on the work of other researchers in this field. Even though we firmly believe we know where Atlantis was we also present the theories put forth by other researchers who places Atlantis in other locations, as we feel they can provide important information and clues regarding other lost civilizations and possible Atlantean settlements. It is all presented to you in the form of articles and videos which you will find by browsing through our site by using the navigation menu on top of this site.

As we studied Atlantis and traveled around, we also became aware of something else, that simply had to be added to our work: Pre-Colombian trans-oceanic travels and migration. Indeed there is evidence strongly suggesting the ancients had contact with eachother around the globe thousands of years ago, from trading to slavery business, and probably just from an adventurous spirit as well. Thus this topic will also stand out within our work and the pages you find here.

We hope we may be of inspiration to everyone who visits this site, and hopefully some time soon the riddle of Atlantis and the sea faring ancients will be solved.

How it started

2009-08-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

So how did i get involved with the study of Atlantis as a real location? And how do ancient pre-colombian trans-oceanic travels fit into the picture?

The story itself started when I was a young man(well even younger than now that is!) and my father told me fantastic tales about this mysterious place. It was the usual stuff that we all have heard, he had books on the subjects and so on, and honestly I believed he himself just considered it a legend and not had a further interest in it.

Well I was wrong. After his death I got hold of one of his old diaries from his own years of traveling around the world, he himself was quite the explorer, indeed in my own view somewhat of an Indiana Jones - he even had the whip and hat. Really!

Nevertheless, I took the diaries and briefly read through them. Some stories here and there about things they had encountered on their journeys in different parts of the world. One story was about a plane they had found sunken in the ocean, another one about a strange huge animal they could not identify but decided to bring along - just to later having to throw it over board because of its rotten smell.

Then I came to the interesting parts. Very interesting I must say. He and some of his men had entered the jungles of Brazil, and due to the sensitivity of this nature I will not reveal the exact location, but there they had stumbled upon marvelous ruins. Deep into the forest with gigantic trees hovering above making it all invisible from air. These ruins consisted of various temples and pyramide-like structures, some poles and obelisk featured objects, and most interestingly they were carved out of a black shiny type of stone.

He himself was sure this was an ancient Atlantean settlement, and obviously quite thrilled over the find. As he did not want anyone else to get to the location and plunder it or otherwise damage it or take the credits for the find, he decided to keep it a secret. He did not have much time to do any research there and had to leave but planned to go back there on a bigger expedition later. Unfortunately he died before he ever got to do that. Luckily however he left the diaries with exact locations of the site.

That is what sparked my true interest in the subject, and I started digging, started researching and studying, and I found other accounts of similar nature telling about similar structures in the nearby area by other explorers and natives.

So obviously I had to study the source of the Atlantis story itself: Platon. Thats where I found many clues that led me to believe the Americas IS Atlantis, which you soon will see why. Other clues from other sources strengthened this idea.

From my own research on this subject I have come to believe the location of Atlantis was actually the Latin-Americas. There are so many things that points in this direction. And Atlantis was not just a city by the way, it was a whole continent, and Plato states so himself. Atlantis, the city, was the capital of Atlantis, the continent.

I believe large parts of Latin-Americas got submerged under water due to some cataclysmic event in the past. The evidence for this is likely seen here:

Map of Gulf of Mexico

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Look at a map of Latin Americas for starter, if you look at Mexico notice the Gulf of Mexico, and further down the Caribbean ocean. Here it seems very likely to me that there once was dry land that now is gone, filling up the gap that is now between Mexico and rest of South America. And the evidence for this has been found by underwater monuments, artifacts and ruins in the mentioned area.

And if you follow Plato's own description of where Atlantis is located, he says its a place far away in the atlantic ocean, opposite the strait of gibraltar. The Strait of Gibraltar is the strait that divides Spain from Morocco. If you travel through it and thus to the opposite side and continue until you reach another continent you end up in South America.

And while we are at this route, there is also evidence of contact between south america and africa in ancient times. Among things worth mentioning, there has been found traces of cocaine and tobacco in egyptian mummies, and both these are native to south america. Possibly "atlanteans" who escaped from the disaster and ended up in Africa and thus taught the egyptians some of their knowledge about stone technology and construction among other things as well as establishing some trading route with south america. I will present more evidence on this in later posts.

There are many similarities between egyptian pyramids and south american ones, specially when it comes to the masonry and stone technology. And this technology again fits the description of atlantis and their advanced knowledge. Even to this day modern science doesn't know how they built these magnificent structures or how they processed the stones etc.

Here are some aztec earplugs made of stone, less than one mm thick sides:

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And here is an egyptian vase, made out of solid granite in one piece, and hollowed out:

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Egyptian "tube" fashioned in a way very similar to the aztec earplugs above:

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To me it seems both the egyptians and the latin americans had similar knowledge on how to work with stone. Could this be because the egyptians had learned it from the migrating south americans (Atlanteans)?

In addition there were the unknown pre-incan people, who built Machu Picchu among other things. The incas themselves just built upon a pre-existing foundation and structures that were already there - the evidence is clear as the incas structures were not as advanced and of as excellent quality as that of their precedents. And these pre-incan monuments show they had a vast knowledge and very advanced building and construction skills. None have been able to replicate these skills in later generations - though they have tried to imitate. Here is an example of a pre-incan wall:

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And here is an example of excellent pre-incan wall with sloppy incan extended work on top:

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If you walk around in places like Machu Picchu and other south american ruins it will become clear that there were some highly advanced civilization that suddenly disappeared and left their buildings and structures unfinished, and then later incas and others came and started build on top of the ruins they found which was already ancient for them as well.

Nobody knows what happened to this pre-incan people, where they went, or why they suddenly disappeared. But it seems quite likely its related to some ancient disaster happening that made the people of those days flee their homes and cities.
If you want to know more about the ancient stone technology I highly recommend you to check this documentary called Technology of the Gods at YouTube 7 parts (CLICK)

If we again go back to Plato and his description of the continent of Atlantis, he said it was "bigger than Libya and Asia put together". So we are talking about a very large continent here, and what other continent could fit this description than South America, when we also take in consideration the other descriptions Plato gave us about this continent? He also describes a huge endles opposite continent, which to me fits quite well with North America - apparently the Atlantians only ruled some in South America (Atlantis was a Kingdom with many settlements situated around Atlantis, the Capital itself, and continents nearby according to Plato)

Places in Latin America also fits the description of Atlantis in more ways, f.ex a researcher named Jim Allen has discovered that Bolivia fits rather perfectly with how Atlantis (the capital city) is described to be a rectangular island high above the sea level - the mountains. Check Jim Allen's theories on this at his website:

http://www.geocities.com/webatlantis/

And the local natives have ancient legends telling about a great flood that raged the planet and swept cities away around 10,000 years ago - which could suit well with the destruction of Atlantis. There are also other similar ancient stories about floods and terrible earthquakes and erupting volcanoes around in South America, check this site for more info on this: http://www.labyrinthina.com/flood.htm - This time table also fits pretty well with Platos descriptions on when Atlantis went under.

There is also the linguistic evidence, if you look at ancient latin american language and how they named many of their places, it fits together with the theory of Atlantis being in Latin Americas. Here are Toltec names of places around in Mexico:
Atlán, Autlán, Mazatlán, Cihuatlán, Cacatlán, Tecaltitlán, Tihuatlán, Atitlán, Zapotlán, Minititlán, Ocotlán, Miahuatlán, Tecaltitlán, Tepatitlán, Tihuatlán, Texiutlán, and the like.

Notice that the Nahuatl Tlán root of these place names is exactly like the Tlan in "Atlantis."
And the pre-conquest Meso-Americans claimed that their primordial founding city was Tollán, which is another variety of Tlan.

Hard evidence suggests that Sanskrit is the father of most world-class languages. If we use Sanskrit to explain the true meaning of "Atlantis," we'll learn that the initial A means "Not; No longer." The final Tis derives from the Sanskrit Desa, Des, or Tes, meaning "Nation." Atlantis = "No-Longer-the-'Tlan'-or-'Tollán'-Nation." When A-Tlan-Tis sank under the ocean named after it, it certainly ceased to exist.

For more in depth linguistic analysis and theories of Mexico being part of Atlantis check this website:
http://www.viewzone.com/atlantis.html

Of course there is a lot more mysteries regarding South America that could possibly relate to an ancient advanced civilization of Atlantis. In addition to all the monuments, pyramids, temples and structures all the way from Mexico and down towards Brazil in South America, we also have strange places like the Nazca lines of Peru that I assume most people are familiar with, and the Ica stones found in an area close to them, which depicts advanced surgery, astronomy and use of telescopes, people together with dinosaurs and more, that cold be the remains of such an advanced and long passed but not forgotten civilization. I do not have the time to tell more about this and other things right now, perhaps some time later.

So, with what I have mentioned above in consideration, doesn't it seem possible that Latin Americas actually was the so called continent of Atlantis, and some of these people who once lived there managed to escape and migrated to Egypt, bringing with them some of their knowledge and thus also being responsible for the greatness of the Egyptian civilizations wonders, and that they later on started a trading route with the Americas thanks the the survivors coming from there? At least I think so myself.

A closer view on the architectural evidence and stone technology

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So where is the evidence showing any connection between ancient latin americas and the rest of the world - and what does that have to do with Atlantis even if true?

Well, let me first answer the last: If we assume that the ancient people did have some for now unknown contact with eachother, which I intent to provide evidence for here, then we may also assume that Plato and other people at his time had heard of these ventures. They most likely must have both discussed and wondered about these other continents, some having more knowledge than others, indeed some must of course even have been the ones whom took part of such voyages.

Thus it is easy to understand, that such a event would be written about as well as talked about. And in my opinion that is exactly what happened. Plato described what he had heard about such voyages to other continents, and included the details he knew of, which was enough to pinpoint the location pretty accurately. Of course, as he was a philosopher and teacher, he did add some of his own "touch" to the story, some of his own personal ideas and morality - which would be quite common and still is done when someone is telling a truth, the core of the story is true, it has just been covered with personal thoughts, ideas and moral stories.

So from my understanding he used a real example in his moral teachings to his students, he used a location existing for real - we know the location as Americas, he called it Atlantis. If he made that name up, or if it indeed is a name that was already used about the place which some linguistic evidence support, is hard to say and need more research. The main point is that he used an example of a real place in the world he knew about, using real events as part of his teachings that had occured to that place.

So assuming I am right, this means that Atlanis was part of Americas, as I have been mentioning in previous posts. Thus this again means that some people must have survived whatever cataclysmic event led to the destruction of Atlantis, and brought the knowledge about it back to people such as those of Platons times.

This not only explains how Platon would know about it, but it directly explains the similarities between architechture and religious belief among other things between continents such as Latin-Americas, where I believe Atlantis main Kingdom was situated, and Africa - specifically egypt and areas around.

First of I will present some architectural evidence so unique yet so alike eachother that is is hard to believe there is NOT a common origin here. Lets get started!

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KEYSTONE CUTS IN EGYPT:

KEYSTONE CUTS IN PERU:

NICHES IN EGYPT WITH STRANGE HUMPS ON THE STONES:

NICHES IN PERU WITH STRANGE HUMPS ON THE STONES:

EGYPT AT LEFT, PERU AT RIGHT - EXTRAORDINARY SIMILAR ARHITECTURE

EGYPT AT LEFT , PERU AT RIGHT - EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITY OF STONE CUTTING AND FITTING

So there you have the first samples - I believe it is not too hard to imagine there seem to be some similarities there, perhaps they used the same architecture? At least to me it looks like some ideas have been shared across the oceans here - thousands of years ago long time before the Vikings or Columbus ever put foot on these shores.

Now back to the interesting "humps" on the stones depicted above, i have noticed that this may seem like the stones ones were soft, a form of concrete, and that these humps may be the hole used to fill in this concrete into perhaps wooden plates used to form these stones, and when looking at inscriptions on several of them and other stones in these areas it seems to have been inscribed into a soft concrete type of matter while it was still wet, and then later dried up and other incscriptions has been carved into the hard stone in addition. This is often visible with inscription that seem to have been carved like a wooden knife in butter, except we are talking about hard stone here (or wet concrete and wooden kinves which makes the butter comparision hold true)

Here is an example of what seem to possibly have been inscriped into once wet stone that later have dried, thus making it easy to make the curves and cirlces and so on. Indeed, it even looks like the artist pushed a bit too hard at the three lines making the upper part a bit fatter, just as it would when doing the same in clay or sand:

Notice this next one, back to Peru now, another close-up of the walls. Now isnt that peculiar stonemansship - up to 7-8 angles a stone, round smooth curves, gentle slopes, all neatly fitted together. Makes me think back to Egypt and the same type of stone work there. And the possibility that these stones were soft when putting in place, thus easily making them fit together and cut and shape as wanted. I mean who needs to make things simple and cut hard stone blocks into nice squares and stack them together when you can put some hours extra in for overtime payment to make amazing work like this?

To make this further interesting, there are scientists whom claim the stones from the egyptian pyramids are indeed concrete, actually an expert on the matter has spoken out on this.

Joseph Davidovits, PhD, specialist in chemistry, geopolymers and ancient cements deserves to be mentioned on that and his discoveries. I quote: "In a microscopic study a human hair was found in a piece of a block taken from one of the pyramids." (SOURCE)

So I think Mr Davidovits deserves a tiny bit more column space here, and thus I will grant it:

In the early Eighties, Joseph Davidovits came up with the radical
but inspired idea that the pyramids blocks were cast using a mixture
of limestone, clay, lime and water. These ingredients reacted and
formed a concrete that he termed geopolymers.
His idea was rejected by the Egyptological community because he
did not have irrefutable scientifific evidence.
Four years ago, A. Ganguly, my graduate student, Dr. G. Hug, a
colleague in France, and I, obtained some stone samples from the
outer and inner casings of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It took us 3
years, but we fifinally managed to prove beyond a shadow of doubt
that indeed the inner and outer casing stones were NOT natural.
This evidence is technical and is summarized at the end of this
presentation.

DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Current Understanding
Egyptologists maintain that the entirety of the
pyramids are made of carved stones.
J. Davidovits claims that they are made entirely
of cast stones.
In this presentation I will show the pyramids are
actually a hybrid, where the outer casing,
backing blocks - i.e. outer skin - inner casing
and architecture and the top half are probably
cast. I say probably because I do not have
backing block or upper tier samples.

DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Major results of our paper
The inner and outer casing stones of the
Great Pyramid are not natural.
The microstructure is consistent with a
reconstituted limestone where the cementing
phase is either silicon dioxide or a Ca-Mgsilicate.
The starting materials are believed to be
diatomaceous earth, dolomite and lime.
In other words, some of the blocks must have
been cast in place.

This is the information I have from his scientific papers:

Davidovits manufactured an artificial limestone containing 15% of synthetic binder, and submitted it to geologists who, on studying it, suspected nothing [6].
A geologist not informed of geopolymer chemistry will assert with good faith that the stones are natural.

[6] J. Davidovits, La nouvelle histoire des pyramides, éd. J-C Godefroy, Paris, 2004, pp. 57-58 et 72

Basically, the principle is as follows: starting with a mineral
substance such as eroded, disintegrated or naturally disaggregated rock – such as the limestone found everywhere in northern France – we give it a compact structure using a binder, a geological glue that will agglomerate (or re-agglomerate) the mineral particles. The result is a rock that looks perfectly natural: in our case, for example, an extremely solid limestone similar to certain types occurring naturally. A geologist would notice nothing unusual. Only a very close observation of the binder can reveal the synthetic nature of the rock, because the particles
themselves are without question limestone – or granite or whatever you like.

The re-agglomerated stone binder is the result of a geosynthesis (a geopolymer), which creates two natural minerals: limestone and hydrated feldspar (feldspathoids). We understand why the geologists can easily be misled.

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The analysis methods used today by geologists are not relevant. To show the artificial nature of the material, they need to work with more powerful methods (analysis by synchrotron, transmission and electronic scan microscopy SEM TEM, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Particle Induced Gamma-Ray Emission, Particle Induced X-Ray Emission, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray Diffraction). These tools are seldom used in this situation. Studies have been made, and all show that the pyramid stones are artificial. [7]

[7] See ref. [5] and [6] for comprehensive bibliographics notes and debates with geologists.

From his publication at: http://www.geopolymer.org/fichiers_pdf/pyramid_chapt1.pdf

Here are some extended list of references in regards of [7] above:
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Studies have been made, and all show that the pyramid stones are artificial. [7]
We can quote the following scientific papers:
Microstructural Evidence of Reconstituted Limestone Blocks in the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Barsoum M.W., Ganguly A. and Hug G., J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 89[12], 3788-3796, (2006).
* The Enigma of the Construction of the Giza Pyramids Solved?, Scientific British Laboratory, Daresbury, SRS Synchrotron Radiation Source, 2004.
* PIXE, PIGE and NMR study of the masonry of the pyramid of Cheops at Giza, Guy
Demortier, NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS and METHODS in PHYSICS RESEARCH B, B
226, 98 - 109 (2004).
* X-Rays Analysis and X-Rays Diffraction of casing stones from the pyramids of Egypt, and the limestone of the associated quarries., Davidovits J., Science in Egyptology; A.R. David ed.; 1986;
Proceedings of the "Science in Egyptology Symposia"; Manchester University Press, UK; pp.511-520.
* Differential thermal analysis (DTA) detection of intra-ceramic geopolymeric setting In archaeological ceramics and mortars., Davidovits J.; Courtois L., 21st Archaeometry Symposium;
Brookhaven Nat. Lab., N.Y.; 1981; Abstracts P. 22.
* How Not to Analyze Pyramid Stone, Morris, M. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGICAL
EDUCATION, VOL. 41, P. 364-369 (1993).
* Comment a-t-on construit les Pyramides: polémique chez les Égyptologues, HISTORIA
Magazine, Paris, No 674, fév. 2003, dossier pp. 54-79 (2003).

Mr Davidovits, whom I have been in contact with, verified himself that similar results where found in Latin-American stones, which again to me indicates a common connection or origin here in regards of this technology.

And before I end the humpy stones tales, I would like to present an idea formed by a colleague of mine, which may demonstrate how these bumps ended up on the stones if we consider they were soft and concrete like when working with them. As you see, the device illustrated would making moving and lifting these easier than if they were flat solid stone alone, as concrete soft enough to squeeze together making these bumps ooze out provides more friction than flat solid stones.

Seems possible to me, and if they did use concrete it also explains why they did not bother remove the bumps after the stones were dry - too much hard work polishing them away once harden so they just let them.

There are really much to say about the ancient stone technology, as another example I will mention this:

In the Cairo museum and in other museums around the world there are examples of stone ware that were found in and around the step pyramid at Saqqarra. Petrie also found pieces of similar stoneware at Giza. There are several special things about these bowls, vases and plates.
They show the unmistakable tool marks of a lathe manufactured item. This can easily be seen in the center of the open bowls or plates where the angle of the cut changes rapidly - leaving a clean, narrow and perfectly circular line made by the tip of the cutting tool.

This will be all for now in this article, there will be more soon specifically about similarities between cultural objects, belief systems, and even biological evidence proving beyond any reasonable doubt that there were contact between the Egyptians and Latin-Americans, as well as most of the rest of the World!

Blessings, and hope you found something of interest!
-Edward Alexander

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