Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, composed around 360 BCE, present Atlantis not merely as myth but as a purported historical account transmitted from Athenian statesman Solon (c. 638-558 BCE), ...

Myth no more? A U.S.-led research team may have found the legendary city of Atlantis, believed to have been swept under a tsunami in southern Spain thousands of years ago. Geologists and archeologists ...

When Plato first described Atlantis more than 2,000 years ago, he wrote of a powerful island civilization that vanished beneath the sea. Although most historians believe the account was not literal, ...