For over 2,000 years, the story of Atlantis has sparked endless debate. Plato described it as a real civilization that existed 9,000 years before his time—powerful, advanced, and suddenly destroyed.

Was the story of Atlantis just an allegory invented by Plato, or is there evidence that the story had a pre-Platonic origin?

For centuries, Atlantis has been dismissed as myth. But new interpretations, combined with scientific data and geographic ...