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Finding Atlantis

Finding Atlantis

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2011

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

77%

Original Title

Finding Atlantis

Production Companies

Associated Producers, National Geographic

Director

Graeme Ball

Description

Using satellite photography, ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology, The film, Finding Atlantis, was screened by the National Geographic Channel in the US and fronted by Professor Richard Freund, from Hartford University in Connecticut. Professor Freund explained how he led a pursuit to find the lost civilisation, believed by many to be an ancient Greek myth, by using deep-ground radar, digital mapping and satellite imagery. He contends that Atlantis, described by Plato in 360BC, in Spain's Donaña National Park, north of Cadiz, and was wiped out by a giant tsunami. Plato wrote it had been destroyed by a natural disaster in 9,000BC. Experts are now surveying marshlands in Spain to look for proof of the ancient city.