Is it Atlantis or what?

Well, well, well. How do you like that! Dig deeper and you’ll find that the integrity of National Geographic Channel’s documentary, Finding Atlantis, is questionable. An online article Lost city of Atlantis ‘buried in Spanish wetlands’at Independent.ie says that:

The film’s claims were dismissed yesterday as having no reliable basis in scientific fact and of misinterpreting partial results of an investigation by a team of Spanish scientists. Since 2005, they have been working on the site at Donana, a national park and bird sanctuary.

Juan Villarias-Robles, an anthropologist with the Spanish government’s scientific research body, CSIC, said Prof Freund appeared to have sensationalised their work.

Mr Villarias-Robles was part of a team investigating ancient settlements in Donana, Europe’s largest wetlands area. He said his team planned to offer their own conclusions later this year.

Now THAT should be interesting–conclusions made by scientists rather than a professor with his own film company. Not that I think a professor shouldn’t have his own film company, but it’s interesting to discover that the Hartford-based professor is not supported by researchers who have been working at the supposed Atlantis site in the Spanish wetlands since 2005.