There are many purported “lost cities” throughout time, but none are more famous than Atlantis. First described by the Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis served as an allegorical representation ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. Atlantis is an imaginary island — a lost empire that has stuck around in popular myth for centuries, despite never existing. So how ...

Are there any reliable maps that show Atlantis ... Explain. Before Plato started writing about Atlantis, he mentions some of the things that are going on in The Republic. But Socrates says ...

Using our interactive map you can explore the world of real ... While it is widely acknowledged that Plato's tale of Atlantis is a myth, some theories suggest that it could have been a reference ...

In Plato’s telling, Atlantis was no utopia. Rather ... it would certainly appear on sonar maps of the ocean floor. So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopic civilization? For that, you can ...

Was it real? What was it like? What happened to it? And most importantly, where is Atlantis? Many scholars have asserted that Plato was simply speaking allegorically when he wrote of the lost city.

Nevertheless, Plato's tale has inspired differing theories over the years about where Atlantis could be. "Pick a spot on the map and someone has said that Atlantis was there," Charles Orser ...

In this 17th-century map, with top facing south ... societies they encountered in the Americas and Pacific. Plato called it Atlantis nêsos, or the “island of Atlas,” and the philosopher ...

After studying Plato’s writings on Atlantis, Brooks surmised that Atlantis ... He backs the claim with three-dimensional maps of the sea bottom that depict, according to the expedition Web ...

Atlantis has its origins as a fictional island in Plato's writings from 360 BC. Atlantis was described as a powerful naval empire that ruled much of the known world – but was sunk by the gods ...

The Lost Atlantis so lavishly described by Plato has been “found” all over the world—from Ceylon to Sweden. Last week a German clergyman was writing a report on how he had found it again ...