An Egyptian priest was
supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559
BC).
The priest insisted that Atlantis was enormous - bigger than Asia
Minor (today, a part of Turkey) and Libya combined. It harbored a
technologically advanced civilization, recounted the priest, in the
10th millennium BC (c. 12,000 years ago).
Curiously, he also said that the Atlantians conquered all the lands of
antiquity, bar Athens (which only came into existence in the Neolithic
period, about 3000 years later).
Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval
European authors referred to it as fact.
Current oceanographers, scholars and conspiracy theorists place
Atlantis all over the map - from an island in the Aegean Sea (Thera,
or Santorini it suffered an earthquake in 1640 BC and housed the
flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canary Islands to
Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as
Troy, long considered a mere fable - were unearthed by archeologists,
it is not futile to continue to look for Atlantis.
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative/Lost_C
ivilizations/Atlantis/
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