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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Lost City of Atlantis is a fun topic—but one that is purely fictional. According to Seth Stein, a professor at Northwestern University who specializes in plate tectonics and earth science, ...

Why James Cameron Decided to Investigate the Legend of the Lost City in Atlantis Rising "When I'm not doing my day job as a Hollywood movie guy, I'm doing my other job as an ocean explorer ...