Atlantis

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Atlantis: We will never know

Fantasy is a tough way to prove right in the twentieth century.

The world has been fully discovered and fully mapped and people know and have knowledge of the earth’s existence though not proven right. Popular media has effectively played the so-called reality of the legend and the fantastic rumor. Satellites have mapped and studied the earth, leaving only a space frontier that is as yet unreachable. But standing out is an enchanting fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or criticize:

The lost continent of Atlantis. The father of the modern world’s picture of Atlantis is Plato (circa 428-Circa 347 B.C.). The Greek philosopher spoke about “Timaeus” and “Critias” of a Continent in the Atlantic Ocean larger than Africa and Asia Minor combined which considered Athens as the most advanced place in the world. According to the legend surrounding Plato’s dialogues, the island of Atlantis was violently thrown into the sea by the Forces of nature, and its few survivors managed to swim ashore and relate their story.

There the legend was passed by form there on until an Egyptian priest related the Story to “Solon”, a character in “Timaeus”. The priest admired the achievements of Prehistoric Athenians, because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlantis to avoid Enslavement, The works of Plato opened the minds of humans to endless rumor on whether the Continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and Yucatan. Mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the bare wasteland of Antarctica have been mentioned in Theories. All of this in the agonizing search to prove its existence. While some of these theories are compatible with “Plato’s” works and are within Pra...