That has been the rumor circulating around the internet for days now. The back-story, in case you missed it, is that Google added a new feature to their popular Google Earth service - topographical maps of the ocean floor.
Some keen-eyed user then spotted this feature:
They claimed that the parallel lines were the street plan for the fabled lost city of Atlantis. The location, off the coast of northwestern Africa is backed up by the story told by Plato, which launched the whole Atlantis mythos - according to Plato the city was located beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the ancient name for the Straits of Gibraltar, but that the advanced civilization suffered a calamity and disappeared beneath the waves forever.
Nonsense says Google (politely). The grid in fact is the result of data artifacts from the sonar-scanning process, not an actual street map. Besides, they point out, the alleged ‘city’ is about twice the size of Rhode Island, meaning the streets would each be about eight miles wide.
Somehow I think this explanation will still fail to kill the ‘found Atlantis’ thread - if there's one thing the internet loves more than a juicy rumor, its powerful organization trying to squash one.
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