Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the myths surrounding the lost city of Atlantis, a metropolis mentioned in ancient texts. Researcher Robert Sarmast says deep-water sonar scanning has ...

Archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built—like much of the world—in the crosshairs of nature. Simon Winchester Published Mar. 20 2011 10:13AM EDT ...

Grecian philosopher Plato wrote about the Lost City of Atlantis in his texts “Critias” and “Timaeus” around 360 BC. He told readers about this grand city that was destroyed 11,600 years ago.

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 ...

STUNNING underwater pictures appear to reveal the real-life Atlantis – with eerie ancient mosaics and moss-coated statues lying on the sea bed. Immersed in the sea due to the Earth’s vo… ...

Archaeologists have raised the alarm over the growing interest in the lost city of Atlantis, which most experts agree is a myth that has regained popularity following the hit Netlix series Ancient ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Atlantis is known as a mysterious lost city. Atlantis was first mentioned by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,300 years ago as one of the oldest and greatest ...

Historians have long hoped to find a map to Atlantis, a mythical city believed to have been lost to the sea thousands of years ago. Now, a new study could prove that an Atlantis existed, though it ...

According to some stories, the inhabitants of the lost city of Atlantis were believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. They were significantly taller and fairer than the average human today and ...

In French novelist Jules Verne’s (1828-1905) book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, his characters set out to discover Atlantis’ ruins. In the novel, The Lost Continent: The Story of ...