https://uk.news.yahoo.com/unknown-m...atlantis-might-be-real-142647993.html#ui91wB9 Very interesting find.
Yes he was right. They just refuse to promote the truth because it will be more difficult to keep the Human experiment under control.
Isn't it already widely accepted that Atlantis was inspired real events, even if the specific detail may have changed in the story? So finding something that he used in his story is not all that remarkable. I understand the island of Santorini is seen as the best candidate for much of the inspiration. But I guess we'll never know for sure.
This find IS detail, a great deal of detail as it happens. How did Plato know about this material? See above.
Because it was in use, or at least known about at the time he wrote his story, perhaps? Plato lived c.300-400BC, and the ingots have been dated to c.2600 years ago. Coincidence? So, as stated, it is not surprising that things he mentioned in his story turn to be inspired by truth. Just because he used the name of a metal around at the time he was setting his story, and we have now found some of that metal from around that time, does not validate the rest of his story, any more than the accuracy of the film Gladiator is validated by referring to the known Roman Emperor at that time etc.
Gela, where the orichalcum ingots were found, was actually originally a Greek colony, founded c.700BC by the nice folk from Crete and Rhodes. Greecian states colonised much of Sicily and the South of Italy as well. There was also an attempt by Athenian soldiers to take Sicily in c.400BC, and it was the city of Gela that spearheaded the defence. This thwarted effort by Athens is thought by many to be the inspiration behind Plato's story of Atlantis, who are thwarted in their attack on Athens.
