Atlantis revisited

A thousand years from now archaeologists may discover proof of a repeatedly sunken civilisation

Two archaeologists, Prof Indiana and Prof Jones, in a museum stuffed with historical manuscripts, fossils, and crumbling statuary. A digital calendar on the wall reads July 3, 3024.

Prof Indiana friends by way of a microscope at a preserved fragment on which the letters TOI could be faintly discerned.

Indiana: There’s little question about it, Jones. This conclusively proves that there actually was a long-lost civilisation which was just like the fabled continent of Atlantis.

Jones: That’s superb, Indiana. For hundreds of years historians have believed that the sunken continent of Atlantis, which was first written about by Plato in 360 BCE, was an allegorical fantasy.

Indiana: Plato’s Atlantis might need been a fantasy invented by him to symbolise the hazards of extreme delight in human development. But it appears there was a real-life Atlantis that acquired submerged in water not simply as soon as, however repeatedly.

Jones: Golly, that basically is unbelievable. A spot that goes underwater again and again, solely to bob up like a performing porpoise in a water park!

Indiana: What’s much more astonishing is that this Atlantis lookalike thought of itself to be a sophisticated civilisation that despatched spacecraft to the Moon and Mars, and will do mind surgical procedure.

Jones: No kidding. So how come it couldn’t forestall itself from sinking into water time after time? 

Indiana: That’s the nice thriller that nobody can resolve. No one can determine why a society that might devise one thing referred to as IPL, the impenetrable intricacies of which proceed to baffle scientists until right now, couldn’t devise the means to forestall itself from sinking yearly, and all the time at this specific time of the yr. 

Jones: Do you suppose it might need some kind of mystical significance? 

Indiana: It may nicely have had. Like the unfathomable workings of kismet and karmic consequence.

Jones: I suppose you’re proper. No one will ever know why a spot referred to as Dilli would, yr after yr, be submerged by one thing named the monsoon…

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