Robert sent me an e-mail today with all our questions answered.
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Here they are at last, the answers Robert Sarmast gave me in the interview he kindly agreed to at Limassol, Cyprus on Sept 3rd 2005.



Q. Neima Nebet
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Do our graphics for our group meet with your approval?

(Sabet)(I also asked if we could use or link to the graphics from www.discoveryofatlantis.com)

A. Robert Sarmast
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It is a nice site I liked it. I did look at it. The graphics are very good. Your group is free to use any of the graphics and images from my website.



Q. Nah-me Tecumseh
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Are your drawings the way Atlantis could have really been?


A. Robert Sarmast
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Those are not really drawings; those are computer models that actually show what the area looked like, if you lower the water level by about a mile.

(Sabet) So, they are real images of what you have found.

R.S. Yes, they are real data of what we have found. The sonar gets the data, and then the scientists turn that data into the 3D models, which look like they’re drawings because they are coloured.



Q. Lady Cleito Henuttawy
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Do your findings prove there was a Lemuria also?

A. Robert Sarmast
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Lemuria is something we don’t know anything about, except it was a more ancient land. I don’t focus on it at all.


Q. Nanu Nebt Sheni Nebet
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Where do you think Atlantis is?

A. Robert Sarmast
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Right here, Cyprus.



Q. Cleopatra VIII Ptolemy
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How deep down do you think it is?

A. Robert Sarmast
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Well the city of Atlantis is located in a rectangular valley, which is located between south eastern Cyprus and Syria, so the city’s down there. It’s about one mile below the surface.


Q. Paket Thutmose
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Which continent was it as large as?

A. Robert Sarmast
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Well Plato never really said it was a continent. What he said was it was bigger than Libya and Asia put together. He had never seen Atlantis, he was relating the story from the Egyptians, who had gotten the story from a more ancient race, and had translated the story into their own tongue.

Don’t forget that twelve thousand years ago people had no idea what a continent was, so they didn’t think Asia, they didn’t think Libya. Their view of the world was very different to how we think and know of it.



They didn’t think ocean, because they didn’t know what an ocean was!

We don’t even know what the original language was that the Egyptians translated the story from.


Q. Sabet Iceni
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What are the chances of Cyprus being totally submerged in the future?

A. Robert Sarmast
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Cyprus is resting on one of the major "seams" of the crust of the earth, constantly shifting and even rising slowly up from the seafloor due to the slipping and clashing of the ever-moving tectonic plates. The island is the meeting point of no less than three major tectonic plates and a dozen or more minor tectonic plates, which gives it a very unusual geology. Scientists know, for certain, that the strait of Gibraltar will in the distant future close again as the European and African plates come together, creating a dam and cutting the Mediterrenean off from the Atlanic Ocean. This will, once again, slowly evaporate the Mediterranean Sea and lower the water level by a mile or more, giving rise to many striking islands which are currently only underwater mountains. Much later, the African and European tectonic plates will pull apart again and the Gibraltar dam will, once again, become the strait of Gibraltar. Another gigantic flood (like the one which submerged Atlantis's rectangular plain) will fill the empty Mediterranean basin with Atlantic waters and make it a giant sea, like it is now. This is a very strange natural phenomenon which exists due to the bizarre effect of the repeated closing and reopening of the Gibraltar. It has happened dozens of times in the past, and scientists say that it will happen again many times in the future. Cyprus is, geologically speaking, like a sock in a washing machine. When it comes to its future submergence, the question isn't if, but when.



Q. Nanu-Nebt Sheni Nebet
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Which type of methods did you use to find it? Do you have pictures?

A. Robert Sarmast
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We have pictures or sonar-generated images of the seafloor using side scan sonar and a winch and cable brought especially from the UK. Earlier maps were created from data gathered by various scientific organizations, for other reasons, using multibeam sonar.

Q. Neima Nebet
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Do you posses any artefacts from your find, or anything to prove your theory?



A. Robert Sarmast
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We went to a specific target at a pre-determined latitude/longitude because it matched the description of the Acropolis Hill with uncanny accuracy. I pointed to this particular underwater mountain, which is only one from among dozens in the area, and put its coordinates in the book before we could ever see this mountain's features, since at the time our data was low resolution. Higher resolution maps were procured a year later and allowed us to make better images of the seafloor, and the mountain which I had pointed to earlier turned out to have striking features that couldn't be found anywhere else. There were two river paths coming off the summit, caught by a canal halfway down the mountain, and then led down further to a huge wall as the base of the mountain. Scientists were stunned. Put this together with the fact that we also have a match with ALL descriptions of Atlantis's flora and fauna, animal life, metallic contents, physical look and weather patterns, near the region where the legend began, and you have your arifacts.



Q.Sabet Iceni
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Have you any other updates that you would like to be included on the group page at Ancient Worlds?


A. Robert Sarmast
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We just got a green light from some of the world's biggest broadcasters, and it appears that the second expedition will happen this summer with a much-hyped documentary to follow it.





All the best,

Robert