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NASA published a new photo of the Richard structure, which is a strange, gigantic, enormous, curious geological structure in the Sahara Desert, for geologists it is interesting, although its origin has a geological explanation, and for archaeologists it is interesting because in its surroundings there are many ancient sites of stone tools, there are also paintings from the Neolithic era, from the time when the Sahara was green.

In a representation of that region that is a bit exaggerated, Lake Chat did have an enormous size and that there were lakes and rivers throughout the Sahara, but exaggerated because, for example, the area between Libya and Egypt was still desert, there are areas on this map where there were still dunes and desert and although it looks green it would be more like grass, it would be like a sheet, like the typical savannahs that we see in National Geographic documentaries, where the lions are stalking the gazelles and giraffes, because in the Richat structure, on the edges, there are caves and areas where the ancestors who lived there, the humans who lived there had painted what they saw, what they had, cattle, gazelles, giraffes and now it is impossible there, it is an extremely desert area, what happens is that the Sahara has cycles in which it becomes greener, the last time it turned green was approximately 5,000 years ago, then it began to dry out.

Some experts say that the presence of the arrival of livestock and that the sheep ate the pastures, etc., helped, it must have been a more global and more complex cycle and no, it is not Atlantis and it is an idea that I want you to be clear about, the Atlantis described by Plato is one thing and then the Atlantis as an adjective can be many because throughout history the term Atlantis has been applied to practically any city or civilization that has disappeared due to a catastrophe, if a flood or a tsunami or a volcano was involved, that term has been applied to it, so Atlantis, I am not saying that many do not exist, and I am not saying that in the Sahara, there were no cultures and civilizations that have been lost, I am convinced that yes, that they have been lost forever, because it is a huge territory and that 5000 years ago could have housed a huge population.

I suppose that some of them would have migrated to the Nile Valley and others to the Mediterranean and others would have disappeared because they would not have been able to escape, because it would also have caught up with them slowly little by little, it would not be that it became desert all of a sudden, simply a generation lived happily in their pastures next to a river, the river dried up little by little and after two or three generations it became a desert, but there was almost no one left.

We could describe Plato as the precursor of apocalyptic science fiction works and in addition to the sagas, because it is truly amazing, Plato was a philosopher, but he liked to get into politics a lot and used the story of Atlantis to justify his political ideas. This means that everything was invented, that it is just a fantastic work, like talking about the exploits of Hercules, other mythological beings that were there at that time, I don't believe it because if you have aspirations to be a legislator or a politician and that your ideas permeate society and say, "Look, what I think, what I argue is validated because in another era this other thing existed, you can't totally invent that other thing."

You have to take something of reference that at least exists in the culture of your time, of your society, ideas, myths, legends that already existed previously about islands or cultures or cities that disappeared, in addition, Plato proposed, as a trilogy whose works would be Timaeus, Cristias and Hermocrates and they would be like dialogues, Timaeus spoke about cosmology, the origin of the universe and the human being. That dialogue is complete, we have it complete, Critias, which was the part where the history of ancient Athens would be narrated and be careful, the victory of Athens over Atlantis. This is an important detail because in some legends of the Atlantis in the plural Atlantis is presented as a technologically very superior civilization and Plato did not propose it that way, Plato proposed it as a prosperous civilization, but technologically it was at the same level as Athens, in fact, Athens managed to defeat Atlantis.

This work is not complete, it is cut right at the most interesting moment in Zeus's speech, this reaches a point at which, the work develops, he talks about Atlantis, etc., and Zeus punishes Atlantis with the destruction that we already know, because, the cataclysm had already been talked about previously in the work, but at a given moment it reaches this point. This is the last we know about the work. Zeus, the God of the gods, who reigns by means of the laws, since he can see such things, realizing that an excellent race was in a sorry state, decided to apply a punishment to them, with this objective, he summoned all the gods in his most dignified mansion and once assembled he said, "And there it remained." And we haven't known how this story, this movie, this television series ends for about 2,400 years.

We have not known how it ends and it is essential because in that missing piece, Zeus would explain why he destroyed Atlantis and also more details of the Atlantean civilization and how the destruction was. It is fundamental, we do not have it because it has been lost, obviously it is a shame, but that does not mean that one day the missing piece will be found. It is one of the books that any archaeologist would give an arm, an eye, anything to find. The missing piece of Plato's work on Atlantis is the Holy Grail, one of the holy Grails, because there are several lost books that would be amazing to find.

There are two places where those books can be, one, also, recently it was news, a fragment of Homer's work was found in an Egyptian coffin, because in the last stage of mummification of the last stage of Egyptian culture and the one that is influenced by the Roman and Greek era, they had the habit of putting texts or fragments of texts inside the coffins, maybe there is a fragment, the missing fragment can be found one day in one of these mummies. And the other place where it could also be is in the library of Herculaneum, Herculaneum was the city that was destroyed along with Pompeii, there was a very rich villa of a relative of Julius Caesar who was dedicated to politics and therefore it would have to have many books, cataloged there as 800 or 900 scrolls that have been charred, but are whole.

And in those scrolls, the logical thing is that it had texts on laws, history and perhaps the entire Atlantis and philosophy, in fact, of the few things that are being discovered are philosophical texts, perhaps there we have an entire volume of Atlantis, then there was another third work that would be Democrates, which was supposedly going to deal more with later politics or the rebirth of the Atlantean civilization after the cataclysm, it is the precursor of post-apocalyptic works. of science fiction, that is, Plato's concept was to describe the history of the universe, Atlantis and its battle against Athens, the punishment of the gods, the destruction and then in principle, the rebirth of civilization after that cataclysm but unfortunately it is never assumed that it was never written, that Plato never finished it because what he saw was dedicated to a more important book for him which was that of laws, the third book of laws. And also because Hermocrates was a real character, he was a general and perhaps he could get into some political trouble and it is believed that for that reason that work was never finished, but the design was very futuristic, Plato was a guy with a very very interesting vision.

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