What is the mysterious legend of "Great Western Country"?

For thousands of years, the legend of an ancient and mysterious "great western country" echoed like a ghost in the Mediterranean, the west coast of the Atlantic and even the whole world. It inspired many people to go to the depths of the ocean again and again to find its trace, and it also attracted many people to write thousands of books to demonstrate its rise and fall. It is the biggest mystery left at the bottom of the sea in the world today!

When Plato (427 ~ 347 BC), a famous ancient Greek philosopher, was a child, his learned grandfather told him the story of "the great western country". When Plato grew up, in order to verify the reliability of this story, he made a special trip across the ocean to Egypt, an ancient civilization, and visited respected monks, and got a positive answer. Plato wrote this story in his works such as Kritz and Begging for Maia.

According to the story, 12000 years ago, there was a very, very big Atlantis on the earth, and there were 10 countries on the island. The king of the country with the largest area, the largest population, the most developed civilization and the strongest national strength is called "Daxi", so his country is also called "Daxi", and the ocean around Daxi is called the Atlantic Ocean.

Tahiti is a rich place with fertile land, humid climate and abundant plants. Besides cereals, there are various fruits, such as grapes, oranges, apples, lemons and cherries. There are all kinds of exotic flowers and herbs, and countless poultry and livestock. It is rich in mineral resources, the walls are inlaid with copper and tin, and the temples are plated with gold and silver. Wide roads, criss-crossing canals, prosperous trade and people living and working in peace and contentment. The soldiers of western powers are numerous, vast in territory and brave and good at fighting.

Relying on his great strength, King Daxi wanted to conquer neighboring countries and often led troops to fight. In order to annex Egypt and Greece, about 9000 years ago, King Daxi led troops eastward. His rule extended from Libya to Egypt and from Egypt to magnanimity. When he led his troops to attack Greece, he met with stubborn resistance and was defeated by the Greeks. However, King Daxi was unwilling to rally and fight the Greeks again. At this moment, a strong earthquake and flood suddenly occurred, and Daxi country quickly sank into the sea and disappeared.

Plato's story has brought great temptation to teenagers and left an eternal mystery to scientists. In ancient times, many people spared no effort to find this mysterious land, but no one found any evidence. People began to suspect that even Plato's student and famous philosopher Aristotle thought this was a fictional story.

300 years later, the Greeks came across a stone tablet in wrathall, engraved with inscriptions and statues, and talked about the great western countries. The spectre of western powers has reappeared. The Natural Geography written by Strasbourg in BC and the Natural History written by Pliny in 79 BC both prove that the Great Western Kingdom once existed. In the 5th century A.D., Kyle, a natural geographer, wrote confidently that there are seven islands in the Atlantic Ocean that are difficult to climb, and the residents of the islands still remember that wonderful country-the great western country.

/kloc-in the 6th century, an Italian scholar, Fracastro, caused a controversy. He pointed out: Could American Indians be descendants of Westerners? Will the new continent discovered by Columbus be an underwater continent in the great west?

Since then, a large number of geographers, geologists, archaeologists, theologians, explorers and travelers. , have flocked to find the ranks of western powers, and strive to be the first person to discover western powers. Until today, people have not given up this effort. Therefore, various hypotheses about western powers are popular in society. Some people say that the great western countries are at the bottom of the Black Sea, some people say that the great western countries are at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, others say that the great western countries are in the Atlantic Ocean, and some even think that the great western countries are in the Arctic and Africa. ...

Since the 1960s, people have discovered "stone roads", "stone walls" and "pyramids" on the seabed by using advanced observation methods. People naturally associate these discoveries with great western countries.

1967, an airplane pilot named Roibert Briuis, flying over the Great Barrier Reef in the Bahamas to the east of Miami, USA, found a square shadow area visible by Yi Xi several meters north of the andros Islands, and the distribution was very regular. Bruce guessed that this might be the primitive building of human beings. He flies around here, observing and taking pictures.

Soon, he sent these photos to Dimitri Rybikov, an underwater photographer and Russian Frenchman, for identification. Rybikov said that in that sea area, he also found a shadow area 400 meters square. He took Bruce's photo to his friend, Professor Manson valentina of the Miami Museum of Science, and they decided to make an on-the-spot investigation.

They flew over the andros Islands and soon found the square shadow area. In order to find out the truth of the shadow, they changed into a submersible with an underwater automatic camera for on-the-spot investigation. The first investigation lasted several months, and it was found that there was a residual wall with a width of 30 cm and a building foundation with a length of 30 meters and a width of 25 meters in the shadow area. During an inspection in1September 2, 968, they also found a square slate with a side length of 5 meters, a thickness of about 0.5 ~ 1.5 meters and a weight of about 25 tons. Slates seem to be glued together with cement or something. People call this striking slate "Bimini Wall". Dimitri Rybikov said: "The side of this wall is steep, and the surface of the wall is horizontal, which is easy to remind people of a part of the architecture of ancient western countries."

There is a lot of discussion about this discovery. An article published in the British magazine Nature believes that this is a "naturally occurring wall". Some archaeologists believe that the origin of slate is a complete mystery. But united press international's telegram supports this discovery.

The expedition continued. 197 1 year dug a ditch under the east and west walls and found a new stone layer. There is a 6 cm thick connection below, and there are traces on the inside of the slate, which were later identified as scratches of human tools. Archaeologists are surprised that it can withstand the impact of rapids and waves for a long time, which shows that the building technology at that time was quite elaborate. Later, a survey was made and it was found that the slate above was supported by four pillars. Therefore, archaeologists further confirmed that this is a human building, and scientists concluded that this is the site of a western power.

Evidence provided by biologists, anthropologists, geologists and archaeologists tells us that from Azores to Bermuda, there are many signs that land once sank into the sea. Jan Mayen, Iceland, Azores, Cape Verde, Ascension and Tristan (da Cunha? Snow formed the east coast of the original continent, from Long Island Strait (USA) and andros Islands to the big Inagua Island, and formed the west coast of the lost continent. Obviously, this is only a rough outline, which can only be determined after further field investigation and study. But people think it seems clear that most of the land of western powers has sunk to the bottom of Bermuda. Some later discoveries seem to provide evidence for this understanding.

1977 In April, AFP announced that a pyramid had been discovered at a depth of 900 meters in Bermuda. The news is shocking. The scientific community thinks this is a joke played by TV stations on April Fool's Day. But later, Charles Belize's book Missing proved this discovery again. He introduced: This pyramid is140m high and180m in area, and its spire is 700m above the water. The discoverer of this miracle was Captain don henley, who discovered the pyramids by using the fish school detector equipped on a small fishing boat.

1979, American and French scientists used modern electronic instruments to explore the Bermuda Triangle again and found another submarine pyramid. This pyramid is 200 meters high and 300 meters long at the bottom. The top of the pyramid is 100 meters above the sea, which is much larger than the pyramids in Egypt. Moreover, there are two huge caves in the tower, through which surging waves and rapids flow. Are these undersea pyramids masterpieces of westerners? Some people think that western powers once crusaded against Egypt and planted civilization here. Do the pyramids in Egypt come from great western countries? It seems that this is another mystery.

1985, when two Norwegian sailors salvaged a sunken ship in the Atlantic Ocean, they accidentally found a square ancient city on the submarine plain in the Bermuda Triangle. They photographed the whole picture of this ancient city with underwater cameras: streets, walls ... They concluded: "This is the great western country, exactly like the great western country described by Plato."

19851October 19, at the International Conference on "A Hundred Years' Study of Human Mysteries" held in San Jose, Costa Rica, Charles Berlitz, an American archaeologist and author of Bermuda Triangle, read out to more than 500 participants his new achievements in exploring the sunken continent for most of his life and showed his slides taken in Bermuda Triangle. On the screen, there are all kinds of ancient buildings, such as city walls and roads composed of large squares.

Similar findings can be cited. But some people are skeptical about such findings. Some people think that these "city walls" are not artificially built, but more like "rock walls", that is, hot magma suddenly meets cold water after volcanic eruption and condenses after quenching. But there is not enough evidence to prove that magma can condense into square slates, stones and stone walls.

Scientists in the former Soviet Union believed that a huge island was formed by volcanic eruption about 1 10,000 ~10.2 million years ago. Later, the island collapsed and was destroyed due to numerous fractures and cracks. As a result, these mysterious "city wall sites" were left at the bottom of the sea. Why do these walls have artificial right-angled shapes? Scientific experiments show that if the plate made of hard material is extruded under strong pressure, when the pressure exceeds the bearing limit of the material, the plate will break at 45 degrees along the direction of strong extrusion. This is the reason for the formation of the "city wall ruins".

In short, whether there is a great western country, its position, what caused its sinking, and so on, is still a mystery. One day, mankind will solve these mysteries, which will be a revolution in understanding the ancient history of the world.