the version of Atlantis in Plato’s dialogues was anything but. Plato first told the story of the lost city in Timaeus and Critias, which serve, still, as the foundation of all other legends ...
View of the Richat Structure, purported by some to be Atlantis. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain A fairly recent theory about the truth behind Atlantis is that it can be identified with a ...
Even today, believers in Atlantis think orichalcum may be the key to locating the lost city. Orichalcum first appears in the historical record in the seventh century B.C.E. with the ancient Greek poet ...