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 ...

Archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built—like much of the world—in the crosshairs of nature. Simon Winchester Published Mar. 20 2011 10:13AM EDT ...

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 ...

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.

Google Earth didn’t discover the lost city of Atlantis after all. NOAA says that details in Google Earth’s imagery of the Atlantic ocean were errors, not evidence of the lost city of Atlantis.

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 ...

Archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built—like much of the world—in the crosshairs of nature. Simon Winchester Published Mar. 20 2011 10:13AM EDT ...