Have they discovered a lost city in Antarctica? Pyramid is offered as evidence
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Some people are claiming that a massive city is buried under the ice in Antarctica, and they say that have the evidence to prove it. Scientists aren't planning any trips.
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Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
12/13/2016 (8 years ago)
Published in Green
Keywords: Antarctica, pyramid, lost, city, civilization, Atlantis
LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) -- Antarctica is the most forbidding continent on the planet. It's dry, freezing cold, and far from civilization. Yet, 12,000 years ago, parts of the continent were ice free. Did civilization flourish there, before the ice gripped the last corners of the landmass?
Some people believe that a secret city is buried under the ice. Some say Atlantis, others say it's a previously undiscovered civilization.
Their best evidence seems to be the top of a pyramid piercing the ice and snow. The mysterious location is situated at: 79°58'39.2"S 81°57'32.2"W, and you can put those coordinates into Google Earth to see it yourself. It is near the Ronne Ice Shelf.
Scientists say the similarity to a pyramid is coincidental. Instead, what you're seeing is the top of a curiously-shaped mountain. It isn't man-made at all.
History is on the side of the scientists. Around 12,000 years ago, people still lived in wandering, hunting-gathering tribal bands. Humans had not settled into cities, or learned how to domesticate crops and most animals. The first city was not established until Uruk in Mesopotamia, around 7,500 BC. There are other locations which also claim to be the first city, but all of them were established in the same time frame, and long after 12,000 years.
Even if humans lived on Antarctica, it is unlikely they would have had the knowledge or resources to build a pyramid.
Instead, scientists insisted the pyramid is merely a mountain peak.
Of course they'd say that. Either the scientists are hiding the truth from us, or our imaginations are over active.
Chances are, it's just a mountain. But it is true that much of the world still remains uninhabited and unexplored. New discoveries are made all the time. Could humans have reached Antarctica and attempted to inhabit it in the past?
Possibly, but still unlikely. Even 12,000 years ago, food and warmth would have been in short supply, especially for people who subsisted as hunter-gatherers. Boat building also did not exist as a technology.
There are no expeditions planned to solve the unlikely mystery at this time.
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