Maju I was asking  on another string ,what the lady of Elx head dress repesented and seems to tie in with the rings of atlantis.

 The enigmatic Lady of Elx, a high artistic quality, ancient bust of a woman found in southeastern Spain, has been tied with both Atlantis and Tartessos since the statue displays the dress of unrecognized culture, that presumably developed great artistic skill to have produced such a work.

Some Tartessian enthusiasts imagine it as a contemporary of Atlantis, with which could have traded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessos

Maju, Herr_Saltzman,

We could indeed speculate for years about what the Egypteans and the Greeks knew and what not, in Solon�s times. It will not bring us a step forward, because we cannot prove our respective opinion. And so a decision about the validity of a theory as Maju�s VNPS being Atlantis cannot be made from those speculations.

What we can do is to study all available archaeological remnants in different regions, compare them if there is any congruence, and draw our conclusions. The enigma of Atlantis will not be solved before the circular island with the three enclosing circular ditches can be found, eventually also the city walls covered with metal sheets.

how ever to this culture.

Drawing of the walls of the city of Los Millares (source)

maju.

 Can`nt help but think that tartesso was a extention of this culture.

And look how the head dress looks like the  symbolkeramik bowls bearing oculus motics.

This page is about the architectural term. See also: eye.

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docyabut,

I was myself visiting Los Millares and can assure you, that its position has not the slightest similarity with the description Plato has given from Atlantis. You could compare it e.g. with the Etruscan city of Tarquinia or many other fortified places from ancient times, which use the natural slopes above a river valley to construct their city walls.

Ulf its the closes description of the city described in Palto writings. The settlement itself was surrounded by three concentric walls.Tartesso  could have been built on similer patten near the sea, by Gades.

As muju said,we just don't know enough about Tartessos.

The Greek historian Strabo wrote of the wealth and great generosity of Arganthonios in the story of a Greek sailor named Koliaos whose ship was blown off course and landed in Tartessos. After being regally entertained for some months, his ship was loaded up with silver and he was sent home. The story also tells how Arganthonios gave the Greeks 1 1/2 tons of silver to build defensive walls to protect themselves from the Persians.

I wonder if that  meant walls of silver.