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SOURCE: El Nuevo Herald DATE: Sunday, December 16, 2001 Sunken City Resurrects Atlantis Myth B elieve to have existed 6,000 years ago in Western Cuba. JULIO CESAR RIVAS / EFE TORONTO, Canada The discovery of what appear to be the remains of a city off the Cuban coast by a group of Canadian researchers has fired the imaginations of many who have begun dreaming that fabled Atlantis could have been a reality. Following a series of explorations using an underwater robot, the couple formed by Russo-Canadian researcher Paulina Zelitsky and Canadian Paul Weinzweig--together with the former's son, Ernesto Tapanés, a Cuban national -- believes that the structures form part of a city erected over six thousand years ago on the slopes of a volcano. This information, based on images taken by the underwater robot and by a modern sonar system, places the construction of the Cuban city fifteen centuries earlier than the building of the Gizeh pyramid in Egypt. While the researchers have still not obtained any physical evidence to date the remains, the possibility that a lost civilization had built highly specialized buildings in such a distant age seems too enticing to restrain the imagination. One of the hypotheses suggested in the past--and which could be confirmed with this discovery--is that Cuba was linked to the Yucatan Peninsula by a land bridge which sank into the Caribbean due to volcanic activity. To others, the notion of a civilization submerged under the Caribbean brings to mind the stories of the Greek philosopher Plato concerning lost Atlantis. Zelitsky told the Canadian press that the megaliths located both by sonar and the underwater robot are of "a type similar to the one found at Stonehenge [Great Britain] or on Easter Island. Images taken with sonar and converted into photographs have been shown to U.S. and Cuban scientists who belive that pyramids, streets and buildings can be discerned. An antrhopologist with the Cuban Academy of Sciences consulted by the Canadian couple has pointed out that some of the images contain "signs and inscriptions" and that the shapes are reminiscent of the pyramidal designs of the Mayan or Aztec cultures. Zelitsky and Weinzweig, while currently residing in Cuba, are the owners of British Columbia-based Advanced Digital Communications (ADC), which has specialized in locating underwater treasrue in the Caribbean. ADC has participated in the search for old Spanish galleons lost in Cuban waters and which could contain great riches. The team has scheduled another venture in January in the Guanahacabibes Peninsula area, where the archaeological remains were located. In the summer of 2002, they plan to use an underwater excavator to explore the find. ################################################################## Translation (C) 2001. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi. ------------------------ "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. This is a nation being transformed before our very eyes." http://www.truthout.com/12.17C.Saudi.Friends.htm Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
