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 ...

Before Atlantis became a lost continent theory, it was a story told by Plato. The original account reveals what the philosopher actually said, why he used the myth, and how a short ancient text became ...

Plato's account of how the fabled city of Atlantis sank below the surface of the ocean has scientific grounding, according to a seafloor survey of an island west of the Straits of Gibraltar. Dr ...

Of all the many disappointments of 1977, the ITV series Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest. The title suggested a programme that would have something to do with the lost underwater ...

This comprehensive debunking of the idea that Atlantis is an actual historical location by classicist Kershaw (A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths) begins with Plato, the sole ancient source of the ...

The mythical lost island of Atlantis was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist. The Greek philosopher, Plato, wrote in 360 BC that Atlantis was an island in the Atlantic ...

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 documentary, Atlantis Rising, shown on 29 January on the National Geographic channel, documents the most extensive search ever carried out by scientists and archaeologists to find the sunken city ...