Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris recently announced plans to buy a Greek island to give refugees from the Middle East and Africa a country of their own. Though Sawiris referred to his proposal as a ...

Herman Sörgel, a German architect, formulated one of history's most ambitious plans: to drain the ocean. This project, known as Atlantropa, would have represented the largest megaproject ever ...

While the world curiously looks in the summer of 2026 to see where Ceuta is actually located, another piece of history is worth mentioning. 95 years earlier, the article “Europe-Africa: A Continent” ...

Herman Sörgel, a German architect, formulated one of history's most ambitious plans: to drain the ocean. This project, known as Atlantropa, would have represented the largest megaproject ever ...

Atlantropa was Herman Sörgel’s plan to install a gigantic hydroelectric dam at the Strait of Gibraltar, drain the Mediterranean and combine Africa and Europe into a single uber-continent. Like most ...

In 1928, German architect Hermann Sörgel unveiled one of the most ambitious engineering visions ever imagined: Atlantropa, a plan to block the Strait of Gibraltar, lower the Mediterranean Sea level ...

Atlantropa was the brainchild of the German architect Herman Sörgel, who tirelessly promoted his project from 1928 until his death in 1952. Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris recently announced plans ...

While Sörgel’s proposal may sound absurd to our ears, it was taken seriously by architects, engineers, politicians and journalists at the time. The extensive Atlantropa archive in the Deutsche Museum ...