Real-world-inspired treasures in games add depth and believability, evoking a sense of adventure. Games like Skyrim and Call ...

This ties in with Plato’s statement about Atlantis being before the Pillars of Heracles. Most commentators understand this to mean that Atlantis was outside the Strait of Gibraltar. Although there are ...

Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city. Tsunamis in the region have been documented ...

TITANIC director James Cameron thinks he’s found Atlantis. His documentary team has stumbled upon a cluster of six 4000-year-old anchors just outside the entrance to the Mediterranean.

Scientific studies from oceanographic expeditions, combined with Randall Carlson’s research, suggest the Azores Plateau may have once been a large above-water landmass—just as Plato described ...

Map of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, Athanasius Kircher, 1664. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. A traditional theory about Atlantis is that it was a real continent out in the Atlantic Ocean ...

If correct, the timing is a match for what Plato describes in his Timaeus and Critias texts as he, a figure from over 2,000 years ago, recounts a story from 9,000 years before. Childhood fascination ...

A DIVER has discovered a series of mysterious “pyramids” on the ocean floor, dubbing it the “real life Atlantis”. The hidden gem was undiscovered until a local diver, Kihach… ...

The Origins of the Atlantis Legend Plato’s Dialogues: Timaeus and Critias. The story of Atlantis begins with two of Plato’s dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. These are the only known written records ...

Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside ...

The real Atlantis might be lost, but MailOnline has created this incredible interactive map to let you explore the mysterious real sunken cities around the world.