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Exhibited
at Digital
Art Mansco Style
For
centuries, man has been searching for the lost city of Atlantis,
seeking for their ancient knowledge and wisdom, exploring the
reasons why did it all end in a split of a second.
I believe it's possible indeed, probable that we are species with
Amnesia, that we've lost the record of our story, going back thousands
of years before so-called history began and I think if we could
go back into that dark Epoch; we would discover many astounding
facts about ourselves and our past. After all, "Nothing Ever
Dies... It Multiplies."
A
Lost Paradise
Most of the information we have about Atlantis comes from the
ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
He says that Atlantis lay west of the Pillars
of Hercules (rock formations at the Straits of Gibraltar),
in the Atlantic Ocean. On this huge island was a "great and
wonderful empire" where brave, virtuous people lived in a
kind of paradise.
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The
Antikythera Mechanism
When
a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered
the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera
in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made
the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface,
removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap
of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods
also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine
and bronzes dating back to the first century BC. But the
most important finds proved to be a few green, corroded
lumps-the last remnants of an elaborate mechanical device.
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