And, in fact, just 10 years before Donnelly’s Atlantis was published, two amateur archaeologists named Heinrich Schliemann and Frank Calvert claimed to have found the ancient city of Troy first ...
Many scholars have asserted that Plato was simply speaking allegorically when he wrote of the lost city ... of Americans believe in Atlantis or a similar advanced ancient civilization.
The issue of when Atlantis supposedly existed has a huge impact on identifying it with a real civilisation. What does the ...
Michael Hubner claimed Atlantis was overwhelmed by a tsunami ... similar to the raised area at the heart of the ancient city described by Plato. Surrounding it were circular dry riverbeds ...