When you picture Atlantis, what do you see? For most people, this mythic city is a classical arcadia sunk beneath the sea – fallen columns, shattered arches and perhaps even an aqueduct.

In 1530, an Italian physician named Girolamo Fracastoro wrote an epic poem about… syphilis! In this poem, he suggested that indigenous peoples in the Americas were descendants of the people who ...

This two-part study (concluding next Monday) sets out not to expound the latest crackpot theory, but to survey the history of belief in the Atlantis myth. Why is it that, from the time of the ...

In this in-depth debate, a father and daughter dissect the legend of Atlantis, tackling Plato’s original account and whether it was historical or pure allegory. One argues Atlantis was likely a moral ...