The Eden-Atlantis Project

The Proposed Archeological Site of Eden and Atlantis in the Eastern Mediterranean
Commodore Robert Stanley Bates, United States Merchant Marine

Published in the Urantia Fellowship Herald, Summer issue, 2018


Plato’s legendary account of a sunken island civilization that he called Atlantis—or what some call Eden—has fascinated adventurers for centuries. But the sophisticated archeological search for this lost culture as had to wait for our time, with its digital technology and advanced underwater research capabilities. Recent efforts to find the vanished island have, I believe, culminated in two exciting underwater surveys in the Eastern Mediterranean that were staged in 2004 and 2006. Each of these expeditions uncovered tantalizing evidence, and both were initiated by Urantia Book students looking for what they believe are the remnants of the First Garden. In this essay, I argue that our search for this pre-historic civilization may now be narrowed to sunken land adjacent to the island of Cyprus, a virtual underwater continent that geologists located decades ago. In recognition of the likely confluence of the two great legends of Atlantis and Eden, I call the ongoing archeological research into this sunken continent the Eden-Atlantis Project. . . [continued here]

The History Channel Sponsors Our 2006 Expedition

In 2006, the second of our two expeditions to Eden-Atlantis was funded by the History Channel.

Joshua Bernstein hosted the coverage of this expedition for the History Channel. The resulting documentary led off the History Channel’s Digging for the Truth series in January 2007.

 

Media Coverage for the 2004 Expedition and Robert Sarmast’s book

First edition (2004)

“It may be the answer generations of experts on the ancient world have been looking for.”
– The Sunday Telegraph (London)

“Did Atlantis ever exist? The answer to that is emphatically yes, if you ask Robert Sarmast.”
—BBC World Service

“The lost continent of Atlantis is to be found in near future.”
—Pravda

“Something amazing is going to happen very soon in the Mediterranean sea off Cyprus: they are going to uncover the lost island of Atlantis.”
—The Independent of London

“Robert Sarmast is a modern day Indiana Jones”
—Radio National (Australia)

“Atlantis may have been found.”
—CNN

“The quest to find the lost city of Atlantis has begun in earnest off Cyprus’s southern shores.”
—ABC News

“One of the most convincing theories of Atlantis that, in my opinion, has ever been suggested.”
—Daily Mail (London)

Distinguished Author Renounces His Own Atlantis Theory

“I have virtually no doubt that Robert Sarmast’s conclusion that Plato’s Atlantis was situated in the south part of the Island of Cyprus, and now lies under the sea, is correct.”

—Colin Wilson (author of a competing book, The Atlantis Blueprint). From the Foreword by Wilson to the the second edition of Discovery of Atlantis.

 

More Media Endorsements

“Point-by-point observations and black-and-white illustrations provocatively drive home the hypothesis in this superb and iconoclastic account that is recommended reading for anyone curious about the saga of Atlantis.”
—Midwest Book Review

Second edition (2006)

“This hypothesis may be the most plausible yet offered. . . The evidence for this extension of Cyprus being the island lost in a cataclysmic flood and earthquake is compelling.”

—Nexus New Times

“A compelling read. . .firmly grounded in historical and scientific research, Sarmast’s comprehensive analysis should. . .interest anyone who has ever wondered about this mysterious lost continent”
—Mysteries Magazine

“Robert Sarmast’s book; The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus – Discovery of Atlantis tells the whole story.”
—Calm Magazine (Cyprus)

“Though there are still skeptics . . . the site they suspect could be the historical Atlantis is on a vast underwater plain between the island of Cyprus and the shoreline of Syria.”
—The Day (New London, Connecticut)