His
account tells us that the city lay mid-way
on
the main island facing towards the outer islands. That narrows down the
search considerably.
And
he tells us that the city is completely surrounded
by mountains. This can only be true if the
islands that are off the mainland are themselves mountainous. And this
is in fact the case for this area of Antarctica.
So
when we combine these clues we find a subglacialplain
that is the size of Pennsylvania. Perhaps we might, in our lifetime, excavate
the remains of an advanced civilization beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Who knows what we might find in the Atlantean libraries? Who knows what
we will think of their art and their science? Is there afterall, wisdom
to be mined from there? Whatever we discover, I am convinced that it will
change the way we view ourselves and revolutionize the way we see time.
The present need not be the only key to understanding time. It is not too
late for us to listen to the wisdom of the ancients. The past can enrich
and even guide our present. And the past might even turn out to be the
key to our future.
Order When the Sky Fell