Bimini Road found

1968NotableContested

Divers off North Bimini in the Bahamas find a half-mile line of flat limestone blocks under shallow water. Some hail it as a road from Atlantis, matching a prediction by psychic Edgar Cayce.

Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Donnelly revives Atlantis → Bimini Road found

Contested history

Consensus: Geologists identify the Bimini Road as natural beachrock that cracked into blocks in place.

Natural beachrockEstablished

Core samples show bedding running continuously across neighboring blocks, and radiocarbon dates fit natural formation.

A road or wall from AtlantisUnsupported

No tool marks, mortar or artifacts tie the stones to builders.

A human-made harbor or breakwaterMinority view

A few researchers report stones stacked on others, but geologists say this occurs naturally.

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