The Surprising Location of Atlantis
Could the answer to one of the world’s greatest mysteries have been under our noses all this time?
The legendary lost island of Atlantis. Everyone’s heard of it and everyone’s got an opinion.
Was it just an elaborate fiction given to us by the Greek philosopher Plato in 360 B.C.? Or was it a “mother culture”, a real place with an advanced Stone Age civilization?
The answer is a bit of both.
The legend of Atlantis was passed down by word of mouth thousands of years before Plato first heard it, so it’s hardly surprising that some details got distorted over time. Truth became history, history became legend and legend became myth. Plato’s account is exaggerated, contains historical errors and even combines two separate locations. But at its heart there is a grain of truth.
Fast forward 12,000 years and that grain of truth is the basis for a new theory on where Atlantis really is.
Just the facts please
When you strip back the Atlantis legend to its very core, there are three key factors:
- The legend originated in Egypt
- Atlantis was an island in the Atlantic Ocean
- The Atlanteans were…
