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 ...

What are the main theories about the true nature and location of Atlantis? Was it on Sardinia, Crete, Africa, or was it just an allegory?

Whether Atlantis was real may never be known. But scientists from several European universities have recovered artifacts from a kind of "European Atlantis" at the bottom of the North Sea. Now, those ...

For thousands of years, people have searched for a city that may never have existed. Atlantis was the shining island that rose from the sea and vanished in a single night, and has become one of the ...