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Edgar Cayce’s
Gregory L. Little, Ed.D.,Lora Little, Ed.D.,and John Van Auken
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Based on this description in Critias, the main island which held the Center City was somewhere around 340 miles long and 225 miles wide. This is a large island, but nowhere near the size of Libya and Asia combined. Since the island empire of Atlantis began at the mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar, there are only a few conclusions that are possible. First, if an island that was roughly 340 miles by 225 miles in extent did exist just outside Gibraltar and extending into the Atlantic Ocean, then the mystery would be solved except for the statements regarding many other islands leading to the opposite continent. As mentioned earlier, an island, named Spartel, did exist there at the height of the last Ice Age, about 18,000 years ago. But it was only nine miles long and three miles wide. And by 12,000 B.C., it was well under water.
Andrew Collins and others assert that Plato’s claim in Timaeus of Atlantis being the size of Libya and Asia combined, refers to the full extent of the Atlantis empire. This idea is completely supported by other details from Plato’s story. It would explain why he mentioned many other islands being ruled by Atlantean kings as well as why he made the enigmatic reference to “the opposite continent” on the other side of the Atlantic. This is a fact that no one in Plato’s time supposedly knew. Finally, if we accept the date Plato gave for the destruction of Atlantis (9600 B.C.), other details in his story would preclude the area around Gibraltar, Spain, the British Isles, or even the islands in the Mediterranean as being the main island. The reasons for this are quite simple. In brief, Plato carefully described the climate of Atlantis as tropical. In 9600 B.C., the last Ice Age was nearing its end. But all the European and Mediterranean areas were still cold, in fact, some areas were still covered by ice sheets. If Plato’s dating of Atlantis is accepted, then the climate of these areas makes them impossible locations for Atlantis prior to 9600 B.C.
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