For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock samples from the Azores Plateau — now 3,000 feet underwater — show evidence of ...

The legend of Atlantis never really disappears. It gets revisited, adjusted, and debated when new findings raise fresh questions. Lately, professionals have focused their attention on locations in ...

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 ...

Mounds that supported medieval dwellings have been discovered along the coast of Germany, researchers said. They’re associated with a mythologized settlement known as Rungholt. Photo from Johannes ...

A team of independent researchers is claiming to have found Atlantis. The research centers around stone structures on Spain's Salmedina Island, off Chipiona in the Gulf of Cádiz, west of the Strait of ...