A groundbreaking claim from archaeologist and filmmaker Michael Donnellan has reignited the debate surrounding the ancient ...

His depiction of Atlantis as a large, powerful civilization that disappeared in a single catastrophic event holds more ...

Here, he finds some similarities between what Atlantis is believed to have been and the Minoan civilization. In the second episode, he finds evidence matching what Plato had written about in caves ...

The tale of an advanced civilization that catastrophically vanished long ago has long been a lure for Atlantis hunters. But archaeologists are blunt: there’s a good reason why we’ll never find it.

Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis in 350 BC — describing a mysterious island which disappeared beneath the sea. His story has been linked to the decline of the Minoan civilization ...

So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopian civilization? For that, you can mostly blame (or thank) Ignatius Donnelly. In 1882, the former U.S. Congressman published Atlantis: The ...

Some archaeologists have begun to believe the legend of Atlantis may have origins in the Minoans, Europe's first great civilization which once flourished on the island of Crete.

Its opening pages confidently set forth 13 propositions about the legendary island kingdom—notably that Atlantis was real, that it was an advanced civilization with colonies in ancient Egypt and ...

The tale of an advanced civilization that catastrophically vanished long ago has long been a lure for Atlantis hunters. But archaeologists are blunt: there’s a good reason why we’ll never find it.