Ancient Technology worldwide, circa 9600 BC, is generally accepted as having been greatly inferior to that described by Plato in Atlantis. The reconciliation of this conflict is the greatest challenge facing supporters of such an early date for Atlantis. Their stance is quite understandable given that Plato twice refers to the destruction of Atlantis occurring 7,000 years before Solon’s visit to Egypt around 600 BC. 

Plato’s description is totally consistent with a Late Bronze Age society. Not only does Plato’s Atlantis appear to be technologically advanced but also their military might implies the existence of equally powerful potential enemies supported by similar technology. Consequently, it is not sufficient to claim that Atlantis disappeared along with its superior skills. It would be reasonable to expect that archaeology would uncover comparable technologies in various locations existing around this date particularly since imperial Atlantis is supposed to have occupied or at least heavily influenced both north and south of the Mediterranean as far a Tyrrhenia and Libya respectively.

Some authors in an effort to verify Solon’s date have highlighted a number of controversial instances of apparently anachronistic advanced technology to support the possibility of an early Atlantis date. Artefacts such as the Antikythera Mechanism, the Baghdad Battery^(a) and even the Ark of the Covenant^(b) have all been adduced to give credence to such an idea. Although conventional archaeology is continually pushing back the date for the emergence of urban civilisation, 7000 BC is about the current limit.

^(a) http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm

^(b) http://thothweb.com/article-print-3190.html