{"id":2850,"date":"2010-06-05T18:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:33:32","slug":"bimini-roadwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bimini Road\/Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bimini Road\/Wall<\/strong> is located in about ten feet of water off Paradise Point on Bimini Island in the Bahamas<\/a>. It was investigated in 1968 by Dr. J. Manson Valentine<\/a>, Jacques Mayol, Harold Climo and Robert Angove. The discovery coincided with the \u2018prophecy\u2019 of Edgar Cayce<\/a>, the American \"bimini<\/a>psychic, who pronounced in 1933, that parts of Atlantis would re-emerge in the late 1960s. His exact words are recorded as: \u201cA portion of the temples may yet be discovered under the slime of ages and seawater near Bimini. Expect it in \u201868 or \u201869 – not so far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Naturally, there was intense media interest and the idea of Atlantis in the Americas was given a new lease of life. Unfortunately, the exact nature of this unusual \u2018J\u2019 shaped feature was fiercely debated and controversy continues to this day. Eugene A. Shinn, a geologist and devout sceptic, has offered(a)<\/span><\/sup> a more critical interpretation of the Bimini discoveries. In an article in Nature <\/em>magazine some years ago (Vol. 287, 4 September 1980) Shinn and Marshall McKusick described Cayce followers as being like members of ‘a cult’.(h)<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Peter James<\/a> in The Sunken Kingdom<\/em> [<\/sup>047<\/a>.53] <\/sup>commented on the Bimini controversy, noting that \u201cIf the \u2018Road\u2019 were man-made we would not expect the grains and microstructure within the stones to be consistent from one \u2018block\u2019 to another. Yet they proved to be so, in every conceivable test that was applied, showing that they were laid by natural means. Further, radiocarbon tests on shells included in the stones show that the \u2018Road\u2019 was formed between only 2,500 and 3,500 years ago, far short of the 11,000 years believed by Atlantologists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Greg Little offered a vigorous refutation of Shinn\u2019s claims in an article in the May\/June 2006 edition of Atlantis Rising<\/em><\/a> magazine(g)<\/sup>. Little continued his criticism of Shinn in a 2017 article(e)<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Without wishing to rain on anybody\u2019s parade, it should be pointed out that Manson Valentine was a fan of Cayce\u2019s and as a consequence, it has sometimes been inferred that the date of his<\/strong> discovery might have been engineered to agree with Cayce\u2019s prediction and enhance the subsequent publicity. Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince have pointed out[705<\/a>.61]<\/sup> that the Bimini Road was known to the local islanders for years and even offered to show it to its eventual \u2018discoverers\u2019!<\/p>\n

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A comparable alignment of blocks in 22 metres of water, was found off the coast of Lanzarote in the Canaries<\/a> and originally reported in the Belgian magazine Kadath<\/em><\/a> in 1987 and noted in the Science Frontiers <\/em>website(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Shinn offers other examples of natural rock formations comparable with the Bimini \u00a0Road – “<\/em>Similar road-like alignments of oblong beachrock can be found throughout the Bahamas. A large area of identical pillow-shape rocks can be seen in 3\u20135 m of water off the east side of Andros Island near Nichols Town. \u2026 Other personal observations have been made in Abaco and the Exuma Islands in the Bahamas and off the northwest coast of Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Katrina in 2005 exposed and undermined beachrock with identical shapes as those at Bimini on the east side of Loggerhead Key at Dry Tortugas<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the more interesting recently discovered beachrock sites is at Pulley Ridge in 90 m of water on the west Florida shelf. \u2026 Pulley Ridge is for the most part capped by a veneer of live coral but in places the underlying rock is exposed, revealing pillow-shape limestone blocks with dimensions identical to the stones off Bimini<\/em><\/p>\n

Similar rows of carbonate beachrock to those at Pulley Ridge have been reported from the same water depth (90 m) in the northern Gulf of Mexico (unpublished Minerals Management Report).\u201d(k)<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

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An even more fascinating natural feature is the Tessellated Pavement which can be seen at the beach at Eaglehawk Neck in Australia\u2019s southern Tasmania(n)<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The Bahamas Geotourism website offers the following additional information\u00a0“<\/em>In the 1930s, an American psychic named Edgar Cayce reported that he had spoken with a person who had lived in the Lost City of Atlantis in a former life.<\/em> This Atlantean told Cayce that Atlantis had been near Bimini.”<\/em>(i)<\/sup><\/span>. I have been unable to verify the source of this embellishment.<\/p>\n

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Dr David Zink<\/a> carried out a detailed examination of the Bimini Road, which he outlined in his own book, The Stones of Atlantis<\/em>[178<\/a>]<\/sup>. Zink’s conclusion was to accept that Atlantis had been situated in the Atlantic, but regarded “Bimini as an<\/em> Atlantean colonial site or <\/strong>the location of a different culture parallel in time to Atlantis.” <\/em>Not the ringing endorsement one might have expected.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Peter Tompkins<\/a> son, Ptolemy, he revealed that his “dad was convinced that the Edgar Cayce readings about the rising of Atlantis were correct. He spent thousands and thousands of dollars photographing the limestone formations off Bimini \u2013 the so-called \u201cBimini Road.\u201d My father loved the idea of Atlantis returning because he wanted the world to become a kind of new Eden. He was a true father of the New Age in this sense \u2013 he had the core New Age belief that the world once was, and would be again a better place. But not better in some mundane sense, but in the sense of being elevated back into a spiritualised condition that it had fallen away from. That\u2019s what the Bimini stuff was all about.”<\/em>(j) Tompkins left Bimini unconvinced that it had Atlantean credentials.<\/p>\n

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A local Bimini writer and healer, Ashley B. Saunders, has produced a definitive two-volume history[179<\/span>]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup>of the island as well as a book[180<\/span><\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0on Atlantis. Saunders has been described as \u201cthe gatekeeper of Atlantis\u201d(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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The most recent study of structures off the coast of Bimini by a team that included Greg Little<\/a> and William Donato<\/a>(l) <\/sup>in 2005 and 2006, when Andrew Collins<\/a> (m) <\/sup>joined them, has produced evidence of ancient harbours that are now submerged at two locations. They also discovered a number of stone anchors, now in the Bimini Museum. However, acceptance of the reality of this evidence is a long way from proving any connection with Atlantis.<\/p>\n

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Gavin Menzies<\/a>, a supporter of the Minoan Hypothesis<\/a>, has <\/b>speculated, in his book 1421,<\/em>[0939<\/a>]<\/sup>, he speculated that the Chinese fleet suffered damage during a storm and landed at Bimini, where they used their large square ballast stones to build an emergency drydock, the remains of which is now the Bimini Road!<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0YouTube\u00a0film including an interview with Greg Little\u00a0is worth viewing(b)<\/span><\/sup>. Less interesting is a new documentary from Amazon Prime<\/em>, aided and abetted by the UK’s Daily Express,<\/em> which has apparently resurrected some interest in the Atlantis – Bimini connection(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup>\u00a0 https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170625004504\/https:\/\/www.csicop.org\/si\/show\/geologists_adventures_with_bimini_beachrock\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3DbaA6NItNQ<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.finalcall.com\/artman\/publish\/printer_8736.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf058\/sf058a02.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/apmagazine.info\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=956<\/a><\/p>\n

(f) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weird\/1070187\/atlantis-found-archaeologists-underwater-formation-florida-coast-spt<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160822201141\/https:\/\/atlantisrisingmagazine.com\/article\/exposing-a-skeptical-hoax\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(h)<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/12724731\/Bahamian_Atlantis_reconsidered<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(i)<\/sup><\/span> Bimini Road\/The Lost City of Atlantis | The Bahamas (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(j)<\/sup><\/span> http:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/peter-tompkinss-son-describes-his-fathers-hunt-for-atlantis-and-his-own-belief-in-sex-crazed-demons<\/a><\/p>\n

(k) <\/sup>https:\/\/archeothoughts.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/22\/ancient-apocalypse-archaeology-update-4-was-the-bimini-road-road-built-by-a-lost-civilization\/<\/a>
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(l)<\/sup><\/span> Atlantis as The Bahamas (andrewcollins.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

(m)<\/sup><\/span> Atlantis Rising #14 October 2002
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(n)<\/sup><\/span> https:\/\/hobartandbeyond.com.au\/blog\/explore-the-tessellated-pavement-at-eaglehawk-neck\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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