Scientists Say They May Have Found Lost City of Atlantis Near Spain
Donaña National Park, Spain Scientists believe the lost city of Atlantis is buried in the mudflats of Spain's Donaña National Park. Harres via Flickr All the news about devastating tsunamis is drawing greater attention to a new claim that researchers have found the lost city of Atlantis - buried in mud on the southern tip of Spain. Scientists say they have found proof of a 4,000-year-old civilization that was buried by a tsunami. The research was unveiled Sunday in a new TV special. This effort to find Atlantis began in 2004, when German physicist Rainer Kuhne identified some strange features on satellite photos. Swamps at the mouth of Spain's Guadalquivir River, northwest of Cadiz, held strange geometric shadows that some thought resembled the remains of a ringed city. To follow up on the findings, teams of researchers from three countries used ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography, magnetometers and spectrometers to map the...