"It's clear that Plato made up Atlantis as a plot device for his stories ... Sign up Plato wrote about the lost island, with a great capital city, in his works Timaeus and Critias around the ...

A DOOMED group of sunken islands found far below the ocean's surface has been linked to the legendary "lost" Atlantis – though it's unlikely it really inspired the fabled sea empire. The newly ...

However, as it turns out, the lost city of Atlantis may have been found - or, at the very least, the inspiration for the ...

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The former islands would have been close to the ... Is this the first look at a lost civilisation linked to Atlantis? Archaeologists in Spain uncover 2,500-year-old statues that may resemble ...

The lost kingdom of Atlantis, a subject of fascination and speculation for centuries, may have been discovered by scientists off the coast of the Canary Islands.This potential discovery centers ...

It was romantic and introduced me to a whole new world, a miniature Atlantis standing proud in mid-Atlantic. Imagine green islands, pastoral and dramatic, mountainous and gentle, set in blue sea ...

They believe that using a combination of literary pointers and geological evidence they have pinned the lost city's location to just west of the Straits of Gibraltar, on a submerged mud shoal now ...

Fast forward to 1882, and the concept of Atlantis as a lost utopian society gained traction ... By 12,000 years ago, the island had shrunk to less than 500 meters in width. Although this gradual ...