What are the main theories about the true nature and location of Atlantis? Was it on Sardinia, Crete, Africa, or was it just an allegory?

Atlantis is the fictional island first described by Greek writer Plato in his texts Timaeus and Critias, said to be an antagonist naval power that besieged "Ancient Athens”. In the story, Athens ...

The story of Atlantis starts not with archaeologists or ancient ruins, but with a philosopher sitting in Athens around 360 BCE. Plato, one of history's most influential thinkers, introduced this ...

The location of the lost city of Atlantis may finally have been discovered, according to one team of historians. Ancient ruins examined using satellite imagery provide evidence that the city's huge ...

Stavros Papamarinopoulos could’ve been a character in a John le Carré novel. He had arranged for us to meet at an empty suite of offices belonging to his economist friend in the unfashionable port ...

Far below the waves, scientists are mapping landscapes that look uncannily like the drowned worlds humans have imagined for millennia. From circular ruins off Spain to vanished shorelines around ...

Zachary Quinto stars in “In Search Of” in hopes of finding Atlantis. Pic credit: History In Search Of on the History Channel brings the mystery of Atlantis back to the forefront. Zachary Quinto, best ...

Atlantis is a little like Elvis — rumored to have left the building but frequently sighted. In December, it surfaced in Tampa, when Dennis Brooks, a teacher in Hawaii, announced his theory: that the ...

PLATO’S description of the lost city of Atlantis matches biblical records and ancient Jewish ruins in Israel, a researcher has shockingly claimed. The lost city of Atlantis is a mythical island, ...

The island of Sardinia may be Plato’s island of Atlantis, an expert claims. Writer and Atlantis expert Sergio Frau says the southern end of the Mediterranean isle resembles an underwater Pompeii, ...