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Google Ocean locates lost city of Atlantis?

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LONDON, INDIA: Atlantis, the lost city of the myths that is believed to have sank beneath the ocean some 11,000 years back.

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But some explorers of the myth now say that it is no longer a myth and the lost city has been located off the African coast with the help of Google Ocean, a 3D software powered by Google.

According to a report in The Sun, Google Ocean has captured an image showing a grid that features a rectangular perimeter of the seabed, a possible location for Atlantis.

The particular region, 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands, is a location for the legendary continent seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato, it said.

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Atlantis is believed to be an island civilization sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,000BC. According to Plato's account, the city sank beneath the ocean after its residents made a failed effort to conquer Athens around 9000 BC.

The "grid" showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys. It was an aeronautical engineer from Chester, named Bernie Bamford, who spotted the 'lost city, the newspaper said.

Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University, and an authority on Atlantis, called this as "fascinating", The Sun said. "The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look," the newspaper quoted Orser as saying.

Despite all the security concerns the software seems to be making a leap in discovering the 'hidden secrets'.

What do you think of the possibility of this 'third eye' that unravels the oceanic mysteries?

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