MAWSON STATION (AMP) — Fueling rumors of an archeological excavation two miles beneath the ice, a controversial archeologist has joined an American salvage operation in the interior snow deserts of East Antarctica, according to Russian scientists at Vostok Station.
Dr. Conrad Yeats, 39, is considered by some to be the world’s greatest expert on megalithic architecture. He is also the son of the man allegedly leading the secret American military expedition in Antarctica, USAF Gen. Griffen Yeats.
"The Russians intercepted a distress call by an unscheduled flight attempting to land in the interior," Col. Ali Zawas, head of the United Nations Antarctica Commission (UNACOM), reported from Mawson Station in East Antarctica. "Voice prints match Doctor Yeats’. We are working with the Russians and Australians to track the location of the distress call and hope it will lead us to the site of the so-called American salvage operation."
The arrival of an archeologist casts suspicion on the official American report that they are salvaging "a piece of NASA space history." It also lends credence to offbeat theories made by some observers that the Americans may have discovered the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
That’s the contention of Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath, authors of the book The Atlantis Blueprint. They claim the coordinates of the city are at 81:52:05S and 111:18:10W.
"We know that Plato's city of Atlantis was immense and circular in design, and that it was carved from a small hill that stood on a plain near the ocean's shore," says Flem-Ath. "There is a strikingly circular feature in Antarctica near the coast along the Ross Sea and northwest of the Whitmore Mountains. It is under 1400 meters of ice and it is huge."
The coordinates that Wilson and Flem-Ath specify are more than three hundreds miles away from where international weapons inspectors believe the American excavation is underway. Nevertheless, UNACOM’s Zawas says: "Such speculation, however fanciful, raises the issue of why he Americans are really down here and why they require the services of a disreputable archeologist like Doctor Conrad Yeats."
Doctor Yeats, best known for his short-lived cable television series "Ancient Riddles of the Universe," first attracted the ire of Middle East countries and archeological preservationists during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 when he allegedly provided the Pentagon with a detailed strategy on how to blow up the Pyramid at Ur.
Ur was the capital of ancient Sumer and the land of Abraham. Today it’s buried in the sands of modern-day Iraq. During Desert Storm, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was said to be hiding out in a bunker beneath the pyramid and using the archeological treasure as a shield.
Even before the Ur incident, Doctor Yeats was one of the most celebrated and controversial young archeologists in postmodern times, known for his deconstructionist theory that stated the value of ancient ruins lay not in themselves but in the information they yield about their builders.
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