New site for Atlantis: Spanish swampland?

Atlantis, the famed kingdom of yore that was wiped out by massive waves, is 60 miles inland? Well, yes, if you believe a team of researchers who have been scouring the mud flats of southern Spain for the past few years.

The theory is that a tsunami powered up and over the "Pillars of Hercules," just as Plato said, and sent the Atlanteans to their doom. The site, according to this team of researchers, is not in the middle of the Atlantic or in the middle of the Mediterranean or off the coast of Florida (as Edgar Cayce thought) but right there on the European continent, just north of Cadiz, in modern-day Spain.

The proof is in so-called "memorial cities," which were built in the image of Atlantis — matching certain details set down by Plato in a dialogue so long ago — that show up on images taken by satellite cameras. It just so happens that the researchers have identified a site in the middle of the Dona Ana Park, one of the largest swamps in Europe, as the one being Atlantis.

The team also used ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology to piece together what they hope is a most monumental find indeed.

More details are to be revealed to the world via a National Geographic special. Stay tuned.