# An urban, seafaring people, the Atlanteans, lived there until about 9600 BC

> Still possible: A city-building, seafaring civilisation occupied the structure until its destruction around 9600 BC, and the tools found there are its…

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# An urban, seafaring people, the Atlanteans, lived there until about 9600 BC

A city-building, seafaring civilisation occupied the structure until its destruction around 9600 BC, and the tools found there are its traces.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** None pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Walls, houses, harbours or canals on the rings and in the centre.
- Occupation layers dated to the 10th millennium BC.
- Metal, pottery or worked stone of a kind beyond hunter-gatherer technology.

## What would rule it out

- Survey and excavation that find only Palaeolithic and later surface material, with no built remains.

## Evidence none for · 2 against

[No city, pottery, walls or engineering works have been reported from the structure](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVVQTXTE1/no-city-pottery-walls-or-engineering-works-have-been)

Supported

AGAINST

[The Sahara was probably empty of people between about 28,000 and 11,500 cal BP](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVVA056DK/the-sahara-was-probably-empty-of-people-between-about-28-000)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Who lived at the Richat Structure, and when?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/questions/QST0DCKRCFJB4FD/who-lived-at-the-richat-structure-and-when)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). An urban, seafaring people, the Atlanteans, lived there until about 9600 BC [Answer ANS0DCKVGTMDYGY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCKVGTMDYGY
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