The mystery of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of scholars, history-buffs, and the mystically inclined for over two millennia. There are more versions of what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located than virtually any other Greek myth. Yet the tale of an advanced culture which preceded ours has persisted precisely because it rings so true to the modern mind.

Plato’s Atlantis

Plato first began to write of a mythical continent called Atlantis around 355 BC. He believed that the land, which he described as being made of alternating rings of land and sea, lay near the Straits of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean until it was destroyed 10,000 years earlier. Plato addresses Atlantis specifically in two of his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Read more