Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.

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 city ...

Ever since Plato first wrote about the mysterious island of Atlantis, it has captured the imagination of adventurers and academics alike. Was Atlantis merely a myth, or could it have actually existed ...

The legend of Atlantis never really disappears. It gets revisited, adjusted, and debated when new findings raise fresh questions. Lately, professionals have focused their attention on locations in ...

Far below the waves, scientists are mapping landscapes that look uncannily like the drowned worlds humans have imagined for millennia. From circular ruins off Spain to vanished shorelines around ...

A number of people were outraged last week by a man named L. Sprague de Camp. Mr. de Camp announced in Natural History that Atlantis and other “lost continents” had never existed. Plato started it all ...

For a story that was first told 2,300 years ago, the myth of Atlantis has demonstrated a remarkable persistence over the millennia. Originally outlined by Plato, the tale of the rise of a great, ...

Known for its flamboyant pink towers and set on five miles of talcum-powder soft sand in The Bahamas, Atlantis, Paradise Island was the first of its kind—a mega-resort—when it opened 25 years ago.