Historian Bettany Hughes certainly thinks there’s some evidence. Clutching her pencil-annotated hardback edition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, she goes in search of the lost city on the Greek ...

The lost city of Atlantis has fascinated people for thousands of years. But despite countless searches, there is no credible ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent National Geographic special on finding the lost city of Atlantis left people wondering whether this mythical place actually did exist. Could there really have been a city built on concentric ...

Plato’s story of Atlantis is one of the most famous legends in the whole world. It was said to have been a powerful island civilization that began aggressively spreading out across the world, until it ...