(ANSAmed) - RABAT, March 31 - Scholars and archaeologists have beeing search for Atlantis for centuries. Some have identified it in Crete, others say the Greek island of Santorini, ans others still say Syracuse, Sicily. Now, perhaps, technology has dispelled the Atlantis doubts: according to Mark Adams' US-published book "Meet me in Atlantis", the lost city was located in Morocco, under the Pillars of Hercules, where Plato describes it well. In his thesis, Adams reverses the direction of most scholars' research by asking what if Atlantis was not the sunken city, but a city destroyed by a terrible tsunami? Working with data analysis by German researcher Michael Hubner, Adam's pinpointed the Souss plain in Agadir as location of where to find Atlantis ruins. Or what is still, after numerous earthquakes and tsunamis, the naval power that conquered Europe and Africa, in 9600 BC, and stopped by Athens, would sink "in a single day and night of misfortune, through the work of Poseidon" as Plato recounted.



Morocco's Agadir region is known to have suffered a terrible earthquake in 1960, followed by a tsunami. In 1731 another quake flattened the city. The ocean wave did the rest.



Hubner used a mathematical system to precisely calculate the GPS coordinates of the lost city. Inserting in the software and identifying 51 Atlantis keywords, derived largely from Timaeus and Critias, (two Platonic dialogues), the city was "3100 miles from Athens," which "is neither in Europe nor in Asia" , "with high mountains behind", and whose center was "surrounded by concentric circles", he divided the globe in 400 areas.



The result was amazing, because the area south of Agadir contained all keywords. And the errors, differ by only up to 10 percent compared to those of Plato. The German researcher has formulated this theory in 2008. But it was virtually unheard of until he met Mark Adams in 2013, a few months before he died.



The American writer used Hubner's research to build out an essay. What is left is to convince those who, since Aristotle, believe that Atlantis is a myth, a literary invention of Plato.



It was Aristotle, philosopher, student of the School of Athens to say: "Atlantis? The man who dreamed, he also made it disappear".

