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Tonight, Atlantis, the lost island kingdom that's baffled explorers for

centuries. When you think of lost cities, you think of Atlantis.

Atlantis is hit with the earthquakes and floods that ultimately sink the entire

island nation to the bottom of the sea, never to be seen again.

Some say Atlantis is a myth. Others insist.

It was a very real place, wiped out thousands of years ago.

Finding Atlantis would not only be the archaeological coup of this century, but

perhaps for all time.

Now, we'll explore the top theories surrounding one of history's most famous

lost kingdoms.

Easily, a half -dozen sites fit the profile of Atlantis.

Could Atlantis and this other lost city be one and the same?

A major eruption could have easily wiped out an ancient civilization like

Atlantis thousands of years ago.

Is Atlantis a real place?

And if so, where could it be?

circa 360 BCE, ancient Greece.

The philosopher Plato writes of an epic battle waged long before his time.

This battle, according to Plato, took place about 9 ,000 years before his

Plato writes about this battle between the Greeks and a very highly

advanced civilization from an island.

called atlantis atlantis is this huge island that is populated

by atlanteans who are incredibly prosperous wealthy have huge

armies so with all their wealth and prosperity the atlanteans are arrogant

they're proud they feel they can expand and conquer others and this is what

brings them into contact with the greeks when they invade their territories

Atlantis has basically been provoking the Greeks. They've been trying to

their empire, and the Greeks finally decide it's time to respond.

The nation of Atlantis is a military juggernaut. They are technologically

advanced. They've got the better military, better tech. They've got this

Plato writes about this battle as if it's like a true tale of good versus

And in the end, the underdog Greeks end up winning the day.

To make matters worse for the Atlanteans, after they lose the battle,

then struck with even more tragedy.

As the story goes, Atlantis is hit with these natural disasters, earthquakes,

floods, that ultimately sink.

the entire island nation to the bottom of the sea, never to be seen again.

Today, Plato's work remains the only known ancient record of Atlantis.

The big mystery here is, is this a true story?

Was there actually an island nation called Atlantis?

Plato is our singular source for the story of Atlantis, and he's using it

as a parable.

But he references real places in this story that makes it sound like it could

a historical account.

The reason why we can't tell if Atlantis was meant to be completely true or

allegorical is that Plato used both forms of writing.

And in the Atlantis story, he has the main speaker say over and over again,

story is true. But maybe that itself was a rhetorical device.

He tells stories that have some sort of a moral purpose for them. So if it's an

allegory, it would be about the dangers of power and wealth.

However, not everybody believes that the story is made up.

People that read Plato's writing look at it and go, there's no way that he made

this up. It's too vivid a description for him to have fictionalized this

He describes these very lush, concentric islands, all linked together by a canal

with massive waterways and surrounded by mountains, as well as a rectangular

plain that's 340 miles long.

The Atlanteans were sort of a sophisticated maritime trading

the central island, there is an enormous, ornate temple of Poseidon.

But there are skeptics who point out details in Plato's story that don't make

sense. There's some strange things about Plato's account, including the fact

that it's 9 ,000 years ago. And 9 ,000 years ago, we did not have any major

human civilizations.

Humanity was still living in hunter -gathering type situations.

Plato might have just been off in his chronology. Or maybe there was some

problem in the transmission of Plato's text.

Maybe there's a mistake and it was supposed to be 900 years instead of 9

There are naysayers of Atlantis, but there are people that read the

and they go, no, it's got to be real. And the first place that they speculate

to the location of this lost city of Atlantis is underwater.

It's the year 1500, and as the Middle Ages draw to a close, Europeans are

venturing out and exploring the world.

The Age of Discovery is an era of global exploration.

Columbus has already discovered the New World.

Magellan has already circumnavigated the globe.

The Portuguese have traveled all the way over to what's now modern -day Japan.

The Dutch East India Company had already made it all the way down to the shores

of New Zealand and Australia.

As reports come back of new lands found and new cultures encountered, people

have this voracious appetite to learn more about all of these new lands as

they're being discovered.

By the mid -1600s, the fascination with undiscovered lands brings Atlantis to

the forefront.

During this whole period of discovery, people are engaging with these ideas.

reading about Atlantis and wondering, could that be any of the places that are

being discovered during all of these excursions?

Enter a young Jesuit scholar by the name of Athanasius Kircher. He is well

-versed in multiple languages, in physics, in history. In the 1600s, he is

is called, like, a Renaissance man.

He's also really interested in mapping. He takes Plato's writings, and he also

combines those with some ancient Egyptian texts.

He puts these sources together and is able to draw what he thinks is the

definitive map of the land of Atlantis.

Athanasius Kircher put Atlantis underwater in the Atlantic Ocean.

And for hundreds of years moving forward, people take Kircher's map as

because he's got such an incredible reputation as this.

Amazing scholar.

The map is very popular, consistent with what Plato says.

There are things out there that they have yet to discover.

So it made sense that this is where Atlantis is.

Kircher places the city of Atlantis near what Plato called in his writings the

Pillars of Heracles. To the ancient Greeks, the Pillars of Heracles mark

they see as the edge of the known world.

Historians have tried to decipher where the Pillars of Heracles actually are,

and they believe that it actually is the Strait of Gibraltar, which is this body

of water that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

It seems at first kind of counterintuitive. That's awfully far

And we don't know exactly where the Pillars of Heracles were, but this

Gibraltar, with its very narrow passage, would make sense as being interpreted

in the Greek context as being the Pillars of Heracles.

When people think of Atlantis, they think, okay, it must be off the western

coast of Europe and Africa, somewhere beyond the Straits of Gibraltar in the

Atlantic Ocean. That just becomes the default notion of where Atlantis is.

One of the things that Kircher knows he's looking for is the possibility of

mountains.

Plato, in his description of the landscape of Atlantis, talks about there

mountains. And in fact, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, there is what's

known as the Mid -Atlantic Ridge, which is a series of underwater mountains.

Our entire planet is covered by oceanic crust and continental crust.

If this happens to be an area that is tectonically active, that will cause

of geological movement of the land.

Some goes under, some gets lifted up to form mountains.

There are a number of island chains, for example, the Azores and the Canary

Islands, which are the topmost peaks of some of these volcanic ranges.

Thinking about this particular underwater mountain range, it's possible

volcanic activity that's creating these mountains underwater could in fact have

played a role in not just the creation, but also the destruction of Atlantis.

A volcano eruption is definitely known to wipe out civilization.

That could have lent itself to erasing evidence of Atlantis from the surface.

Kircher's map influenced a lot of people, but it didn't influence

Some experts who believe in Atlantis don't think that we should be using

Kircher's map as the end -all answer. They, in fact, think that Atlantis isn't

underwater.

It's hiding in plain sight.

For centuries, many European explorers believed that the lost city of Atlantis

must be deep underwater.

But in 1839, a discovery on land challenges that assumption.

Archaeologists excavating on the island of Malta find the remains of a temple

believed to be older than 5 ,000 years. That would make it one of the oldest

buildings on the planet.

The temple is so old that the builders didn't even have metal tools at the time

to create it.

It's a marvel of engineering for ancient history.

It has hugely large heavy rocks placed on top of one another, fitted together

almost perfectly.

So this is evidence for a pretty advanced civilization.

There's a Maltese architect by the name of Giorgio Gronier de Vassay.

He's the one overseeing this dig, and he comes to a conclusion. This has to be

the lost city of Atlantis.

Malta is a nation of five islands off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean

Sea. The largest island is 17 miles long and 9 miles wide. That makes it one of

the most densely populated areas on planet Earth.

Scientists believe that there was more to Malta than there is now, and that

of it was wiped out by an earthquake and a tsunami that followed soon after.

This entire Maltese archipelago was only part of a larger island chain that

started gradually sinking around 20 ,000 years ago.

To de Vasse, the evidence suggests that this newly excavated temple was a part

of an advanced civilization that was living in that time.

2 ,000 years before Plato writes about it. This is not the 9 ,000 years before

Plato as he lists in his writings. But it is still a considerable time before

him. So it is conceivable that the story was actually passed down to him as

ancient history.

So de Vasse is convinced that the ancient structures on Malta indicate

is the legendary Atlantis. And he stakes his entire reputation on this.

He even gets inscriptions that were found in these archaeological sites in

that have the name Atlantis. And so he thinks, here, this is my smoking gun

evidence. There are lots of people who did not in any way take him seriously.

But he goes to his grave still believing that Malta is Atlantis.

In the 1930s, 70 years after de Vasse's death, some turned their attention to

another Mediterranean locale, a place that's ground zero for one of the most

powerful natural disasters in human history.

A new candidate arises for Atlantis, and that's the island of Thera, which is in

the middle of the Aegean Sea. And we know that there was a massive volcanic

eruption there in either the late 1600s BCE or into the middle

1500s BCE.

This volcanic explosion was so massive that it shot rock and ash up into the

almost six miles, and it was visible all the way from Egypt. After the volcano

explodes, there is an entire ongoing series of earthquakes, of tsunamis. The

island basically collapses in on itself.

Now, after the explosion is over, the island of Thera will rebuild, and

The island of Thera is still around, but we now know it by another name,

Santorini.

In the 1930s, a Greek archaeologist by the name of Spyridon Maninatos joined

search for Atlantis.

Maninatos is a top Greek archaeologist. Probably his biggest claim to fame is

that he found the site of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae.

Probably best known from the movie 300.

Maranathos is also interested in the Minoan world.

Now, the Minoans were a pre -Greek population that lived on the islands of

Aegean, based in Crete, we think, and even in some coastal settlements on the

mainland of Greece.

The Minoans are a culture we don't really know a ton about, but we do know

they were living on the Greek island of Thera around the time of the volcanic

eruption.

We also know that they were highly advanced, and there's some evidence that

might have built structures in an effort to be earthquake -proof.

After that catastrophic eruption, the Minoans continued to persist and thrive

other areas like Crete.

However, mysteriously, they vanished. There's no historical record or mention

them after that.

Mario Notos' theory is that the eruption in 1600 was probably

not the only eruption that ever happened.

A whole series of volcanic eruptions, of earthquakes and floods and tsunamis

destroyed this area little by little.

So if you put all these elements together about the Minoans, this highly

advanced civilization destroyed by a volcano, by earthquakes, floods, it

to sound... An awful lot like Atlantis.

When Maranathos takes a closer look at Thera's topography, he's pretty certain

that he's on the right track. For starters, Thera is a series of

circles alternating between land and water. And in the center, you've got

caldera that fills up with water because that's where all the volcanic activity

took place.

And then on the sides, you've got these steep cliffs that are surrounding it.

These steep cliffs could have possibly been...

those mountains that Plato talked about in his writing.

In 1967, Maranatos and other archaeologists make a spectacular

on Santorini.

They find the remains of a city buried under ash for 3 ,500 years. And it's an

example of an advanced culture with a city that had a harbor, fine works of

incredible building, and even indoor plumbing.

Maranata had to dig down through layers of ash to find this incredible

settlement, which we call Akrotiri today.

And that volcanic eruption, by dumping all that ash on that settlement, it

preserved it like a time capsule.

It is the Greek equivalent of the famous Pompeii from the Roman world.

Given what we know now, it's very likely that a place like Santorini, could be

the representation of Atlantis.

In the 1970s, Jacques Cousteau, the famed oceanographer and submarine

decides that he is going to explore around Santorini. He is going to see if

can find proof that this is in fact Atlantis.

In the end...

Cousteau does not find the conclusive proof that he was looking for. There's

Temple of Poseidon. But this doesn't stop the thinking that this could still

Atlantis, or that it's at least out there somewhere.

For centuries, explorers have been trying to decipher clues in Plato's

hoping to find the lost kingdom of Atlantis.

But while the theory of Santorini as the location of Atlantis is explored, other

experts wonder if they've been misunderstanding the text all along.

Plato, in his writing, describes Atlantis as an island. But the word he

Greek, nesos, doesn't just mean island.

It might refer to a peninsula.

An island?

is a body of land that is surrounded on all sides by water whereas a peninsula

is only surrounded on three sides and a peninsula is always attached to a much

larger landmass plato describes atlantis as being an island with a large flat

area you don't usually find those on islands so it's much more believable to

find such a plane on a peninsula in the 1920s This idea captures the

attention of a German archaeologist named Adolf Schulten. Schulten is known

his work in Spain. He's actually uncovered an ancient Celtic territory or

settlement known as Nantia. So he knows Spain actually very well. He realizes,

of course, that Spain, all of it, is a peninsula. So it occurs to him, maybe

this is the location of Atlantis.

If you look at Spain on a map, you'll notice that it's right there by the

of Gibraltar.

So if the Strait of Gibraltar actually is the pillar of Heracles, you have

another geographical marker that aligns with what Plato was saying.

And this region has had plenty of earthquakes and tsunamis, which could

affected civilizations for a very long time.

In fact, in 1954, there was an earthquake that measured 7 .8 on the

scale.

Fortunately, that large earthquake was mostly subterranean, and so it didn't do

a huge amount of damage. But still, there are shifting plates there, so this

could be a place where you might expect to find Atlantis.

In the 1920s, Scholten zeroes in on a region known as Donyana, which is part

a national park, and it's this swampy marshland south of the city of Seville.

There is some evidence of an ancient site, but when they get to the site to

start digging, they run into a huge problem.

The water table of Doniana is very high, so as they start to dig down, pretty

soon the water starts to seep up, and they have to abandon these attempts to

down any deeper.

It's kind of like Mother Nature's way of saying, whatever's buried here, you're

not going to find it.

After Shultz's failed attempts, Atlantis researchers largely ignore the southern

tip of space until the 1990s. Suddenly we have this new ability to take

photographs from satellites. And that really changes how we understand this

region. Because satellite photography starts to show us these long rectangular

developments right in this same area where Shulton was looking.

a physicist from the University of Dortmund in Germany. He looks at these

pictures and is really intrigued by them. And he thinks that maybe these

rectangular structures could be the remains of the famed Temple to Poseidon.

He also believes that he sees some evidence of perhaps circular structures

would seem to fit Plato's dimensions of Atlantis.

In 2009, researchers set out to confirm what these images seemed to show, with

astonishing results.

They used something called electrical resistivity tomography, or ERT

as it's also known, which can actually map beneath the surface to see large

structures. And what they find is...

confirmation that there are large structures there and some of them have a

-like shape.

Following the discovery of that, you have marine archaeologists that dive

the swamp.

And when they get down there, they end up finding these stone structures that

look like walls.

Could these be the famed walls of Atlantis?

One thing you would need to do is to date these structures.

Do they fit with Plato's description, if not 9 ,000 years before his time, at

least some time very far in the past?

These ruins are dated, and they only date back to the 1st century CE,

of years too late for Plato's description.

Roman archaeologists are pretty familiar with 1st century stone walls. When they

see it, they know instantly that it dates from the Roman occupation of

But there are at least 20 other sites in this area that could still be

excavated. And those are probably much, much older than the first century walls

of this particular site.

Archaeologists have also been able to confirm that this region probably was

by natural disasters, both an earthquake followed by a tsunami around 2000 BCE,

which is long before Plato.

So there are plenty of experts that firmly believe that Atlantis is hiding

the marshes of southern Spain.

For centuries, explorers have been searching for the lost city that Greek

philosopher Plato called Atlantis.

They've traveled the globe and studied the text, endlessly searching for

overlooked clues.

But in the 1990s, a Swiss archaeologist proposes that the key to the mystery

might lie in the work of another legendary Greek author who lived 300

before Plato.

His name is Homer.

Homer is best known for the Odyssey, his stories, which tells the

voyages of the young hero Odysseus.

But there's another work that Homer is famous for that he writes actually

the Odyssey, and that's called the Iliad. And the Iliad tells of an epic

between the Greeks and the inhabitants of the city of Troy, the Trojan War.

Homer's account of the Trojan War concerns a massive Greek expedition from

mainland of Greece to the city of Troy.

This is said to have taken place some 400 years or so before Homer's time.

After the Greeks defeat Troy, the city is destroyed.

Now, how it's destroyed, we're not entirely sure. It might have been by

might have been by earthquake.

That information is lost to us.

Archaeologists dream of finding this place.

But after years of searching, many people...

believe that ultimately maybe it just never existed at all.

That changes in the late 19th century when archaeologists zero in on a

site in western Turkey near the Aegean Sea.

It so happens that this site is already an archaeological legend. The city is

called Hazarlik, and in 1871 archaeologists uncover what is now

be the city of Troy.

Over 100 years later, in 1992, Swiss archaeologist Eberhard Zanger makes a

shocking claim in his book Flood from Heaven. He claims that Troy and Atlantis

are one and the same.

Zanger's premise is that Atlantis is based on the city of Troy.

and that Plato is actually giving us a garbled description of the city of Troy.

Are they in fact the same place?

For Zanger, Troy turned out to be real. If that's the case, Atlantis can be

real, given the fact that these places were prosperous, wealthy, and powerful,

and then were destroyed and disappear from history.

Perhaps it's the same story.

So there are a number of things that Zenger uses to make his case for this.

both Troy and Atlantis are said to be very windy. They're also both said to

a lot of water waves.

But maybe more telling is that the king of Troy claims to be a descendant of

Atlas, an Atlantean, which is basically the same word that Plato uses to

describe the people of Atlantis, the Atlanteans.

Zenger uses satellite images of Troy and the areas surrounding it and makes the

argument that a lot of things line up. The plains, the mountains, the general

shape of the city match up with what Plato describes about Atlantis.

According to Zenger, there is also a major geographic feature of the region

bolsters his case.

Troy is located next to a major waterway, which today is known as the

Dardanelles, which separates the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara from the

Aegean Sea, although not precisely the same as how Plato described Atlantis.

Zonger believes that he can find enough similarities to equate the two.

Plato writes that Atlantis is near the Pillars of Heracles, which has been

presumed to be the Strait of Gibraltar.

Zanger claims it's not Gibraltar, but it's the Dardanelles Strait.

Today, the two sides of the strait have highly developed port towns, but in

ancient times, these sides of the strait would have been nothing but just empty

land filled with woods.

Atlantis is clearly on an island, and Turkey is not an island.

So here you find another kind of creative translation of this ancient

word, nesos.

that Zanger argues doesn't exactly mean island. It really means any kind of a

place that has a coastline. So if you look at it like that, then Turkey would

qualify.

Zanger's theory is still pretty hotly debated.

There are people who insist Plato made this up. It is not a real place.

But there are people equally devoted to the idea that Troy is Atlantis.

Those who discount the Troy theory entirely take their hunt to even more

unexpected locations, like places that barely have any water at all.

It's a widely held belief that if Atlantis is real, it's somewhere at the

of the ocean. But in 2008, new research turns that assumption on its head.

In the mid -2000s, Michael Huebner is a 40 -year -old German software engineer.

But his true passion is... trying to find and locate the lost city of

Huebner scours Plato's writings for any geographical features associated with

Atlantis. The mountains, the plains, the concentric islands, the water,

the temple in the center of it.

In Huebner's analysis of Plato's writings about the geographical features

Atlantis, he comes up with 51 characteristics of Atlantis that he puts

computer program and then applies to a map of the Mediterranean region to see

there are any places that match those 51 characteristics.

So Huebner basically lays out a grid with these 400 little squares and looks

which attributes each of those squares might have so that he can zero in on the

places that are most like Atlantis, according to Plato.

Months into his research, Huebner's program reaches a shocking conclusion.

One of the squares on his grid lights up as a place that has a ton of these

geographic features, but it's in a place that you would never expect.

The most likely candidate that his program comes up with is right on the

the Sahara Desert, a region called Susmata outside of Marrakesh, Morocco.

This place just looks way too dry to be Atlantis, but Huebner insists that this

is the place.

Huebner believed that there was a great earthquake in the North Atlantic and a

resulting tsunami that swept up the coast of Morocco before sweeping back.

It's not an island in the literal sense that Huebner is talking about, but the

word Nessos that Plato used in his writing comes up, and this time another

interpretation is created.

The word Nessos can be expanded beyond island into peninsula or into beach. So

Huebner takes an even more expansive definition of that term and says it's

region that's bounded by mountains or an ocean.

The region that Huebner is talking about, Susmasa, is surrounded by

ridges on two sides and the Atlantic Ocean on one. So he suggests this one

region of Morocco fits the bill as Nessos.

So Huebner plugs in these geographic features into other locations, but none

as many hits as the Zeus -Massa region.

Case in point, he tries Santorini, but the computer program tells him that

are only 23 of the 51 geographic features, whereas Zeus -Massa, 44

up.

Proponents of Huebner's theory say his most convincing evidence comes from his

research on the ground.

In 2012...

Huebner goes out to this particular area of Morocco, and in the sand, he

actually finds kind of a bowl -shaped depression. In the center of this bowl

a hill and the remains of an ancient temple.

One of the most unique descriptions of Atlantis that comes to us from Plato is

its organization. It has a series of concentric circles with the Temple of

Poseidon in the middle.

He's absolutely convinced that he has not just found Atlantis, he has found

famed Temple of Poseidon in the center.

And sure enough, these rings that he identifies in Sus Massa

are wadis, which are ancient water gullies and valleys.

And so perhaps then they might be evidence that at one time there was more

there and you had the concentric ring that Plato describes for Atlantis.

Tragically, before he's able to continue or finish his research, Huebner dies in

a bicycling accident.

But other scholars are continuing his work and looking in the same place and

hoping to prove that this Moroccan desert location is the unexpected

Atlantis.

When it comes to unlikely locations for where we should be looking for Atlantis,

there are people who say we should be digging not in sand, but in ice.

The 2 ,000 -year -old search for Atlantis takes another unexpected turn

at Springfield College in western Massachusetts.

A class discussion piques the curiosity of anthropology professor Charles

Hapgood. Hapgood and his students are talking about the idea of continental

drift, this theory that the different continents on our planet, once they

apart from being a central unified mass, drifted really slowly over time

to their current locations where we know them to be now.

Hapgood tries to challenge those ideas during this conversation. He tells the

students, what if it's possible that some of these landmasses move much

faster than we actually think they do?

Hapgood argues that the crust of our planet can actually move freely over the

core and the mantle.

And he suggests that it can move fairly quickly, even so far as flipping

the north and south.

And he says that this is something that may have happened innumerable times over

the last 100 ,000 years.

According to this theory, at one point Atlantis was in a warm climate. But

massive land shifts cause another polar shift, which causes the South Pole to

move closer and closer to this island. As it gets closer, it starts to get

colder. Nothing can survive there anymore.

And Atlantis becomes known.

as the continent of Antarctica.

In 1953, Hapgood actually writes to one of the most brilliant men in

Western history, Albert Einstein.

And he tells Einstein about his shift theory, and to his great surprise and

delight, Einstein writes them back, and he tells him that he finds his theories

actually really very convincing.

Papgood decides to put out his theories into a book in 1958 entitled Earth's

Shifting Crust, and he even manages to get Albert Einstein to write the

for his book.

When Albert Einstein writes the introduction to your book, that's a

strong endorsement from one of the greatest minds of all time.

Suddenly, people are going to take Hapgood seriously.

Hapgood contends that these incredibly fast changes in these land masses would

lead to these incredible natural disasters.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, melting ice caps, mass extinctions, anything...

that we would be looking for would be buried underneath the ice.

That's why, he contends, we can't find Atlantis.

From about 1960 on, Hapgood's career takes kind of a weird twist.

He meets up with a psychic medium by the name of Elwood Babbitt.

And Babbitt channels various historical figures from antiquity, everybody from

Jesus to Mark Twain. And he records these with Hapgood

in a series of interviews.

This really casts a shadow on Hapgood's scholarly credibility, that this is the

direction his career takes, makes a lot of people look quite differently at his

earlier work,

The acclaim may have at one time received from Albert Einstein.

But a 2012 book called Atlantis Beneath the Ice, researcher Rand Flemoth

revisits Hapgood's ideas about the Lost Kingdom.

He goes ahead and takes these maps of Antarctica from pre -9600 BCE

and lines them up with maps from Athanasius Kircher.

and makes an exciting discovery, which is that the shapes found on both of the

maps are a near -perfect match, proving that Atlantis is Antarctica.

Some people will still hold that as climate change continues and the ice on

Antarctica begins to melt, once and for all we will find the lost ruins of

Atlantis beneath the ice.

The reason why people get excited about looking for Atlantis is because it

really is the world's greatest unsolved mystery.

Did it exist?

Was it all made up? And if somebody finds out whether that was true or not,

going to be one of the most amazing discoveries of all time.

Perhaps Plato really was inventing the story of Atlantis for literary effect

the details were just inspired by real places.

But the search is far from over.

Teams of investigators continue to hunt for clues all over the world. In

Ireland, the mountains of Belize, the waters of the Caribbean and beyond, all

operating on the assumption that Atlantis did exist.

Maybe someday one of them will dig up the Temple of Poseidon, and that's when

we'll know the kingdom of Atlantis was no myth at all.

I'm Lawrence Fishburne.

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