The myth of Atlantis has fascinated people around the world ever since Plato first wrote about this sunken city in 365 B.C.E.

However, as it turns out, the lost city of Atlantis may have been found - or, at the very least, the inspiration for the ...

Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the myths surrounding the lost city of Atlantis, a metropolis mentioned in ancient texts. Researcher Robert Sarmast says deep-water sonar scanning has ...

Only about 3% of the 583,000 square miles of seafloor where the formation was spotted has been mapped by scientists. Atlantis, meanwhile, has never been found.

So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopian civilization? For that, you can mostly blame (or thank) Ignatius Donnelly. In 1882, the former U.S. Congressman published Atlantis: The ...

Grecian philosopher Plato wrote about the Lost City of Atlantis in his texts “Critias” and “Timaeus” around 360 BC. He told readers about this grand city that was destroyed 11,600 years ago.

Historians have long hoped to find a map to Atlantis, a mythical city believed to have been lost to the sea thousands of years ago. Now, a new study could prove that an Atlantis existed, though it ...

The drowned city of Atlantis has captivated mankind across the centuries, as a utopian naval empire of demigods with advanced technologies that ruled the entire known western world. The legendary ...

Atlantis, for example, is one of the most famous lost worlds and despite most people believing the underwater city to be the stuff of myths and legends, it hasn't stopped archaeologists searching ...

This is not the first time that scholars have claimed that Ireland is the site of the Lost City of Atlantis. In 2004, Swedish academic Dr. Ulf Erlingsson claimed that the geography of Atlantis ...