An Unexplained Jewel from Space and The Location of Atlantis: 5 Unsolved Ancient Desert Mysteries
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
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Located in Mauritania's expansive, wind-swept deserts is a geological wonder so immense that it remained hidden in plain sight for centuries. This is the Richat Structure, better known as the Eye of the Sahara. Its true scale only became apparent when humans ventured into space, and NASA's 1965 Gemini 4 mission captured the first photographs.
Spanning approximately 40 kilometers in diameter, its concentric rings of rock create a hypnotic visual effect, drawing onlookers into a vortex of historical and geological mysteries. Among the most compelling of these is the theory that the Eye of the Sahara could be the location of the lost city of Atlantis.
The legend of Atlantis, first mentioned by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato around 360 BC, tells of a powerful and advanced civilization that disappeared without a trace after falling out of favor with the gods.
According to Plato, Atlantis was situated beyond the "Pillars of Hercules," the term used in antiquity to refer to the mountainous peaks flanking the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The description of Atlantis, with its concentric rings of water and land, bears a striking resemblance to the Eye of the Sahara, leading some to speculate that this could be the site of the legendary city.
Supporters of this hypothesis argue that the dimensions and structure align with ancient texts, claiming that the Sahara was once a lush and habitable region that could have supported such a civilization.
However, despite its allure, this theory holds little water among the scientific community. Geological evidence and a lack of tangible archaeological proof have steered experts towards more plausible explanations for the Eye's creation.
Geologists have determined that the Richat Structure is a natural geological dome that has been sculpted over millions of years. Initially formed through volcanic activity, the dome was gradually eroded away by wind and water, revealing the layered sedimentary rock beneath.
This process, known as differential erosion, accounts for the distinctive rings of color and texture that make the Eye so visually compelling. Radiometric dating places the formation of the structure far earlier than any conceivable timeline for Atlantis, with the rocks at its center dating back over 100 million years.
Beyond its geological significance, the area surrounding the Eye of the Sahara does indeed hold evidence of actual human habitation and activity. Archaeological discoveries have unearthed stone tools, pottery, and other artifacts, indicating that the region was once home to thriving communities.
The climate of the Sahara was vastly different thousands of years ago, with more hospitable conditions that supported not only human life but also a variety of flora and fauna.
This green Sahara, or "Sahara pump theory," suggests that the region underwent periodic phases of increased rainfall, transforming the desert into a savanna at various points in prehistory.
Such conditions would have been conducive to establishing and maintaining human settlements. However, they were far too early and primitive to match the impressive descriptions of Atlantis...
It's amazing to think that, at any given moment, the sands of the Sahara could shift and reveal the broken ruins of a lost city and before anyone can see it, be lost again under the sands.
Google Earth explorers be like:
Okay, I’m just gonna say it. I’m kind of tired of hearing modern “experts” continually saying that ancient civilizations didn’t have technology to make the things they had while also saying they have no idea how they made their wonders. Clearly ancient civilizations had technology you aren’t aware of, simple as that.
They like to be called experts, but they are just "ancient astronomers investigators".
I couldn't have said it better myself
Well put
Exactly
If that tech did exist back then, where's the evidence? No records of that degree of machinery or tools exist. Only the more primitive ones such as a bow and string type drill.... Keep in mind the ancient Egyptians made records of EVERYTHING!
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If he truly loves you, it'll be a Meteorite Glass Ring...
Look up moldavite. It is a beautiful space glass you can buy. They make really nice jewelry out of it.
"He must have went to Saturn's" 😂😂
Meteorites are worth more than gold actually
Irrigation systems lol the way “experts” will try to just explain things away is ridiculous sometimes… “we need to water these crops what should we do” “well draw a 300 foot monkey of course”
"this theory holds little water"
I see what you did there.
Omg I didn't notice that that's pretty good 😂
lol
I remember watching the 1970s _In Search Of..._ about the Nazca lines. Fascinating.
I love when I get notifications for your new videos, thank you! 🙏🏼 the desert can be a unforgiving place 🏜️
I wish they'd use the lidar scanning on the deserts. Id love to see whats hidden under the sands
They'd never tell the truth about it.
Ever.
You think they dont know? They dont want YOU to know.
@@mr.e0311 ofcourse not!
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If Atlantis fell out of favour with the gods… what do they think of society today??
Hard to say
Nothing to compare to
Which is most likely why those stories are hidden and kept to fantasy
You are our only hope.
Always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing
You are my all-time number one most favorite narrator! I love the way you speak
That was pretty awesome thanks.
Who knows how many things we don't know about our oceans and not even to mention the universe
Bangin!!! I love being this early!
Great channel. 👍 The best part of a mystery is solving it.
Doesn't lightning do the same thing?
Only on a saltwater beech
A meteorite could be hotter than lightning. Plus, all the minerals and other things that would be in a meteorite.
@@lisaholman2019
How did you come up with a meteorite achieving temps hotter than plasma discharges?
@@j.pershing2197 i said COULD be. It would depend on the composition of the meteor and the angle of trajectory. Word comprehension is key in a conversation
@@lisaholman2019
Wow. You must be a real nice person. Being all condescending like that...
Not all comments are meant to be the middle finger lisa. Ive just never seen the data on the meteorites temps entering our atmosphere. I suppose if magnesium is present but even then it would be up to 20 times cooler even then. High density plasma discharges are insanely hot, as you said, with determing factors. Have a nice day lisa
Plato's proof of Atlantis? Trust me bro.
If you want to learn law, learn to speak Latin.
If you want to learn history, learn to read Sanskrit.
The "trust me bro" is played well tfo.. it's like being a grammar Nazi.. it's not really a thing that thinking people bother with anymore.
The Richat Structure: Just wanted to mention that the Atlantis theory is a bit different from what you've outlined here.
There's no dispute that the original structure is natural. The idea is that around the time given for Atlantis, not only was it fertile, but water levels might have been the right height to create a series of raised ring islands matching the description. There's also a cluster of geological features that matched the story, including a river in a certain orientation that's now gone and the layout of the mountains to the north. Then there are a lot of other little details that line up, such as the location of ground water, and some ancient references that seem to indicate Atlantis as being in Mauritania, as well as etymological coincidences.
Proponents then point to signs of a large ocean flooding event caused by tectonic movement (iirc) as sweeping the area clean and then eventually draining away, pointing to geological features, large salt deposits and other things to back that idea up.
I don't know how well any of the details hold up, but at least to say the arguments given are a lot more interesting and dare I say fun lol. Bright Insight has a great series of videos on it.
Very good point raised. No dispute the geological features preceed the civilisation. Now completely washed into the Atlantic. Very sad - the truth is there to see.
There are whale bones in the Sahara Desert. It used to be a sea. Given the description of Atlantis and the fact that the region had water, I can see why its speculated as the location of Atlantis.
The big rock hit the Atlantic Ocean = 300 ft wave
It wasnt tectonic movement. It happened because our orbit and that of the other planets orbits changed. Mercury flew past as the "wondering star" or "great comet". But bravo. I agree with the proof you've given...mostly
They've found a gravitational anomaly under the artic bigger than anything ever detected and many believe it's the remnants of the biggest meteor impact our planet has every seen. Something bigger than any previously know extinction event. Would explain the massive rise in sea levels and a flood that big could literally move mountains so to think it couldn't pick up and dump an entire city into the ocean isn't far fetched. I agree they need to look off the coast of Mauritania where all the water was dumping into the ocean. Only problem is with Atlantis being so close to the coast is the flood coming from the other side of the continent would carry an entire continent's worth of debris with it meaning if the remnants of Atlantis were washed into the ocean off the coast of Mauritania than the structures we're looking for are likely buried under unimaginable amounts of dirt and debris sadly.
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Wrong
@@barftrooper102 gonna give a better option?
@@perfectstranger1152he doesn't have the ability to do that
I would love mysteries of Papua New Guinea and Polynesia! Great video!
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Lighting strikes also creates glass
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The truth is out there
The truth is also in here.
Thank you for posting. We always love your content.
I'm so early the Ancient Aliens haven't arived yet.
I don’t think that was the labyrinth that Herodotus was referring to, but that’s just my 2 cents. Great video!
Not a common note in the western world, but it is specifically Comet Glass; the composition of the comet mixed with the sand to cause the resulting molten yellow glass. It has not been tested further to see what the composition was that could have caused the yellow tint (ie, high Iron and Ice). It could be done but would take a dedicated research institute.
Funny how the "experts" keep getting proven wrong about things.
I'm pretty sure Richat was atlantis, a map exists too that shows it. was said to be made and provided by a God and the Atlanteans moved in/on to it. So it's age should not matter as long as it's older than when we think Atlantis existed.
It can't be. I know this because I already mapped out all the ancient rivers and lakes in the area.
Atlantis lies Under water Off the Coast of Portugal😮
Curiously, I wonder how someone who had never been to (or even heard of) a museum might describe it? As an endless amount of rooms and corridors with all sorts of intricate artifacts and weird writings? Maybe not a labyrinth, maybe an ancient museum? Imagine what the ancient Egyptians had collected over the millenia 🤯
Differential Erosion was my nickname in high school
If you look in Google Earth, there is a vast volcanic plains from NW Chad all the way to eastern Libya. There's another cluster of extremely eroded crater formations in SE Egypt and NE Sudan. This "glass" could have been found there.
Crater formations. Right. But not caused from physical material but high density plasma discharges erupting from close planetary bodies interacting. Zeus's thunderbolts were real
I, too, watch the grand tour.
Really if that volcano is the real reason why is all that white in the structure salt more specifically sea salt
lightning strike glass...
to discredit the richat structure as not being atlantis just because its a geological structure, is like someone in 20,000 years coming across long island and saying that it clearly was not inhabited by humans because its just a geological structure.
you are certainly aware that humans live upon geological structures... that something being a geological structure does not mean that humans have never lived there...
10:33 um... thats... weird
I believe that the Richat Structure could be Atlantis. The Saraha used to be a sea. There are whale skeletons in the sands.
Those whale bones are millions of years old though.
It's in the wrong place.
@@iamperplexed4695 Plato just describes it as an Island near the Pillars of Hercules. Different locations for it have been proposed all around the mediterranean. Atlantis was said to be next to a mountain and composed of concentric circles, the Richat Structure is next to a mountain and composed of concentric circles. It's plausible.
@josephr4761 That's actually not true, the account is actually more specific than that and what is currently the Azores on the mid-atlantic ridge is a much better match. Both lyrically and physically based on geological studies if the area.
@@iamperplexed4695 The Azores could be a plausible location as well. It really isn't very specific and he was recalling an oral tradition about a place 9,000 years before his time. Probably a few incorrect details.
What about the theory of the Kensington rune stone and the rest of the Norse artifacts in the museum it’s housed??? If Vikings enter the Hudson Bay and travel the Nelson river and into the red river???
Well Vikings were well-known explorers. They were always wanting to know whats over the horizon. That or it made its way through native americans trading with one another
Holds little water lol I see what you did there! 🤣
The Hindu culture claimed God's fought on chariots and battled. The battlefield produced shards of glass...
They say the Gods fought in Vimana, which were vehicles not described as chariots. The Gods even had flying Vimana.
Hindu isn't a culture or a religion... It's a way of life.
But the great Kurukshetra war did leave traces of its occurrence.
As did the earlier war with Rama and Ravana in Sri Lanka.
Ancient Sanskrit texts are full of information that's only recently been proven correct by the rest of the sleeping world.
Thank you for your use of BCE and CE in your videos! It is the only correct designation!
"We can't date rocks" *dates rocks anyway*
they also used the iron from the same meteor the glass came from to make a dagger
there are many types of natural glass there
From space it looks like the sphincter of the Sahara ! 😆🤣
Lightening
One point from me to the "ancient aliens build pyramids" folk:
When looking at the traps that Egyptians build in different treasure locations is to me sign that those where some human build stuff. If you believe that Egyptians did it then you might arrive to conclusion that they were quite savvy in engineering and had smarts that echoes thru ages. If they were alien build, I would say a major bummer on lack of sci-fi stuff and things that can be implimented in modern use just because they are so sofisticated on material and build part. So whats it gonna be: Ancient Egyptias were some clever people who did something that last and can be seen as awesome in different time periods or a not so good work from superhigh beings who decided to go on rustic route on there building for some reason?
Atlantis was a kingdom of seven cities , the structure may have been part of one of those cities .
Look Closely and Deeply into Pliny the Elder's Description/Narrative on the LABYRINTH.
Hecstates that one NEEDS A GUIDE OR MAP TO NEGOTIATE IT,BAS THE LAYOUT CHANGES.
INDIANA JONES, TWILIGHT ZONE, AND OUTER LIMITS TO INFINITY AND BEYOND????
OR FACTUAL..............
Not to mention that there aee at least 6 entrances into/under the Sphinx.
That glass rock is from a micro Nova
My dad used to say _"Serious road bugs."_ That was what he called Sears. Get it?
It's kinda like Monkey Ward's, but a bigger store..
Other stoners my age and thereabouts will get it.
Many videos! Entertainment watch success! Such depth.
THIS Is Where Atlantis Is… Look It Up…
Where’s Erich von Däniken when you need him?
The Egyptians could have made that scarab by using the suns energy if they were able to direct it like with a magnifying glass of sorts.
Looks like it got shot by the DeathStar.
I’ve never been this disrespectfully early
That's what she said?
@@Excremental_Discharge that's really what she said
Lies all lies 😆 🤣 😆 🤣, bro was 2 days early to school, forgot it was Saturday and not Monday morning 😂😂
Disgusting
Disgusting
Maybe the volcano took out Atlantis...
Later, one those artificially intelligent "weather" satellites named MPU will redraw the Nasca lines.
Hello
Update on the destruction of sodom and Gomorrah.
The desert I'm from has top secret aircraft
Yeah but those “experts” continue to fail
I think the Richat Structure is the location of a city in Atlantis. The Atlas Mountains are RIGHT NEXT to it, described by Plato, who got it from his grandfather who had apparently gotten it from Solon. The term “advanced technology” could mean anything, really. Did they have plumbing before anyone else? That’s advanced. It’s as simple as that; it’s us in more modern times that make the claim that Atlantis was more advanced than we are today and they must have had flying cars, spaceships, and were part of the Galactic Federation, often visited by Romulans lol. Ok, I made up that last part but it was funny. To me at least… ahem… but I can also say it doesn’t matter what or how much evidence is placed in front of people, a lot of them would refuse to believe it, which is funny; Troy was a myth too! And Early Modern Humans were incapable of making fire and lived in caves and were incredibly hairy… they walked like Apes, or so science and archeologists once claimed but now it’s accepted as wildly inaccurate. The same goes for the Neanderthal, archeologists are finding evidence of possible religious beliefs, rituals, art, and so on. The absence of conclusive proof is not proof of conclusive absence. There’s so much we don’t know.
It is tectite
Hey. Get back to the original intro! ❤️❤️
Hang on, the scarab is made from thinite, Libyan desert glass which can be found in the western desert. What’s the mystery?
Every guy reading this.... you get a chance to draw any object that can be seen from space. Simplistic but one continuous shape...... where those people completely humorless or just all female?
???????
@@scallopohare9431 I mean you'd expect at the very least one male sexual organ surely?
The Atlantis theory holds little water... you cheeky little.
I can’t believe anyone in our civilized world could ever believe “savages” could build anything, it must have been aliens from outer space. 😳😂😂
According to the organizations looking for precious materials it's just a natural form no tech to reverse engineer here folks!😂
The scarab glass is from a lightning strike 🤷🏾♂️ maybe I'm wrong, but hey it makes for a better story the way you claim it.
It looks nothing like lightning strike glass which looks more like Coral. There is also that the glass covers thousands of square miles. Something significant had to have caused it.
ATLANTIS
Common mistake to believe ... Atlantis was where todays Arabia is. In those days it was an island . This is why Greeks or actually Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean civilizations,all existed thousands of years before Greeks,something like ancestors of Greek culture ,knew about Atlantis .It was close,and they traded with them, Where todays Suec channels is,that todays penninsula in those days was an island that suddenly sinked,and rose from the sea,pulling massive amount of sediments with it,that covered and connected short sides of the island,and made a penninsula out of it.
The fact that there is no evidence of a large & tecnological culture anywhere near the R. structure says everything that needs saying!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd say the theory that, Libyan desert glass is made from strikes of lightening, is pretty plausible.
Haba
The geologic age has nothing to do with it. Plato never claimed Atlantis' ringed structure was man made. Just as we do today, we build upon natural formations whenever it's advantageous to do so.
I believe Herodotus.
Main stream academia gets paid to achieve certain answers.
It's not from space at all it's melted sand. Called desert glass.
The Richat is definitely a natural structure, the problem with that being discrediting is that humans almost always build on top of natural structures if they serve a purpose and lessen the burdens of construction.
There’s always one person who puts my comment first. So I’ll just say
“YEAH WHAT THIS PERSON SAID !!!!”
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Jimmi, are you watching?
People who believe in the reality of Atlantis likely haven’t fully engaged with Plato’s works. Should one delve into them comprehensively, the meaning I refer to becomes unmistakably clear.
@2:30 it looks more like strip mining there unless I am looking at this wrong,
Nazca lines are.......ancient graffiti !!
If you want to see Atlantis, go look out the window.
I live in a trailer park. 😢
@@Stable_Genius still applies. This is nothing more than evidence of the Great Flood.
So you're saying The Richat is not Atlantis because its not manmade, got it
It's totally not the Richat Structure.
They definitely had the technology come on they had electric cars and scooters in the early 1900s and charging stations now act like the stuff is new this isn’t our first go around on this plane better question who built all the giant buildings of white stone with copper domes all around the world when nobody knew the other existed??? Hmmmm
Who else is watching this while they at work
Same comment as the last video 😂
@@therealbill1033 yeah
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3:26 this structure looks almost like this 25°15'00.0"S 27°04'22.1"E
One day, given enough evidence; A.I. might even discover inteligent life (non cetecean) on earth. hohohohoho
I wish you could Just calm tf down man!
I'm sure this has been asked a million times. But what happened to the original narrator?
This is the original narrator
This is the OG narrator unless you want the captions back so you have to read lol
@@Aaron-tr4ssthat was soooo long ago. But feels like yesterday 😂
Originally there was no narrator. Just printed subtitles. I prefer it this way.
Atlantis is North America… just ask Plato