One of the most famous city in the world, Atlantis was socially and technologically advanced beyond the wildest dreams of Plato or his contemporaries. According to Plato, Atlantis was a great city built many millenia before civilization existed anywhere else. It was created for Poseidon, who gave it to his ten sons by Cleito. Atlas, the first, who became king of all of Atlantis and the Atlantic Ocean and was given the city in the middle of the continent. The other nine were given fiefdoms over parts of the island.

9,000 years before Plato's time, the Atlanteans attempted to conquer the world. They conquered Africa as far as Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia, in what is now Italy. The Athenians and Egyptians were the only two major powers opposing Atlantis, but would have failed had not the gods destroyed Atlantis, sinking it after striking with earthquakes and floods. As the island sank, it left a mud shoal that was impossible to get across.          Since then, there has been no sign of Atlantis. The mud shoal appears to have vanished entirely, and the location was never recorded beyond being "in front of the Pillars of Hercules", two mountains flanking the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar is known to be the Rock of Gibraltar, but to southern Pillar, which would be in northern Africa, has not been found.

There have been many locations suggested for Atlantis, including the Azores, Crete, Antarctica, the Caribbean, and even planets. Some have suggested that Atlantis never existed, and that it was as real as the Greco-Roman gods themselves. The true location will probably never be known for certain.

Plato's Atlantis: The description of Atlantis according to Plato


The Azores: The first serious location thought to be Atlantis

The Caribbean: The location of what appears to be a man-made road that has been under water for thousands of years

Crete: The most likely location of Atlantis

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