Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.

For over 2,000 years, the story of Atlantis has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and skeptics alike. First described by ...

The Atlantis story originates in Plato’s dialogues as a moral tale about hubris and decline, not an archaeological report. Modern Atlantis mythology expanded in the late 1800s through writers who ...

For 20 centuries and more, the legend of the lost Atlantis has had a powerful hold on the human imagination. In his dialogues, Plato described Atlantis as an island “confederation of marvelous power” ...

A number of people were outraged last week by a man named L. Sprague de Camp. Mr. de Camp announced in Natural History that Atlantis and other “lost continents” had never existed. Plato started it all ...

Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named the Association of British Science Writers' Editor of the Year in 2023.View ...

FOR the last three years I have been compiling a dictionary of Greek mythology, in which I set myself to record all versions of every myth and at the same time to account for them in historical or ...