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Arguing with my 11-year-old is like stepping

Into an alternate dimension of reality.

You have to deal with these urban legends and myths that

Get passed around school or over video game chats.

And you have to take 'em serious,

Because he can find a tiktok video that proves what he's

Saying is right and I'm wrong again about everything.

The internet was supposed to save us,

With information, all of human knowledge is in your pocket,

But it's turned into something else,

Something we don't even understand.

I'm gonna prove once and for all the earth is flat.

Did anyone predict flat earthing would make a comeback?

On the internet you can find whatever soothes your soul.

You can make the world whatever you want.

If you wanna live in a world of magic,

No problem.

If you wanna live in a world where aliens walk amongst us,

You got it.

And if you wanna talk about atlantis,

The fabled island of unlimited wealth that sank beneath the

Sea 12,000 years ago because of poseidon's curse,

Well there's a chat room with your name on it.

But atlantis is different than slenderman and flat earthing,

What gives atlantis power is that plato wrote about it in

His famous dialogs,

The foundation of western philosophy.

So it's not just modern day conspiracy theorists or

Amateur sleuths.

There's so much evidence of atlantis.

It's scientists, priests, mathematicians and academics.

Oh look at this.

Another clue.

They've all found the idea of a real atlantis fascinating.

Isn't that amazing?

Where is it? What's the spot?

And the search for this perfect island has persisted

Since plato wrote about it 2,500 years ago.

It's considered a red zone by governments around the world.

It's gonna be very tricky to get a

Team of archaeologists in there.

It's arguably the most famous curse

In the history of the world.

It does weird things to people.

And examining the intersection point between

Myth and science is what this show is all about.

So hell yeah, bro,

Let's go look for atlantis.

The island paradise called atlantis

Washed away into the ocean 12,000 years ago.

This mythical place has been ingrained in

Popular culture for generations.

But just like aquaman, there's an origin story.

Plato described in great detail atlantis.

The landscape of the islands and the mountains and the sea.

And for a long time people have thought it was here in

The azores.

We're going down the internet wormhole following plato's clues

And taking cues from those who've searched before us.

Is there any evidence that atlantis was a real place?

Many people on the internet are excited about what they

Say is evidence of an ancient sea-faring culture lying on

The ocean floor, right here in the azores.

They believe this could be where atlantis washed away

Into the sea.

We're gonna do some diving on some

Ancient sea-faring civilizations.

This is where they would anchor.

So we're gonna go see what we see.

Geographically, some believe the azores matches

With plato's description.

He said you go through the pillars of hercules,

Which is the gateway from the med into the atlantic,

Or what we now call the strait of gibraltar.

But then out in the atlantic somewhere lies the

Island of atlantis.

So, there were a lot of old anchors down there.

Some as maybe old as 16th, 15th century.

But nothing was old enough to be in the atlantian era.

So we'll keep looking.

In plato's texts, timaeus and critias,

Written in the 4th century b.C.

He describes an island of limitless wealth that was

Built by the greek god, poseidon.

Now one of the clear signifiers of atlantis was

That it was built in these great concentric circles.

There were three giant rings of land and three rings of water

And in the middle of all that was a temple that had

Walls of silver and gold and a pillar inscribed with

Commands from poseidon.

Now on the pillar were mighty curses to be invoked on those

Who went against the will of the gods.

So when the atlantians eventually fell from grace,

Zeus and poseidon were rightfully pissed and they

Caused the entire island to be swallowed up by earthquakes

And floods and it sank into the sea.

So atlantis existed as a myth, you know,

As an allegory, but plato insists that atlantis is real,

Repeatedly and then it was 10,000 years ago

Or 9,000 years ago.

That's a long time for accuracy if you're plato.

I've gotta say he's not doin' a lot of hydrocarbon dating.

I'm skeptical of plato's accuracy on that assessment.

But he insists it's real.

Now that's the question that's caused a lot of debate in the last,

I dunno, 2,500 years.

Most scholars think that plato invented atlantis as a way to

Teach people about morality.

But others believe that the island could have been

Inspired by an actual place or several different places.

I'm gonna investigate whether there's any scientific

Evidence that atlantis truly existed,

Because if there is it could be found.

Nuno ribiero is an archaeologist and he thinks

These piles of rocks found on pico island in the azores are

Evidence of a lost sea-faring culture.

So there's things inside of these pyramids?

Yes.

Oh right, like a uterus or a womb.

Yes.

- The womb of a woman, right. - Yes.

So maybe like a special place for rituals or doing a

Ceremony of some kind or religion or whatever.

This is that old?

That's, that's crazy.

- It's fantastic. - Very fantastic, yeah.

But when it comes to ground-breaking theories,

By definition you court controversy.

And nuno believes that the portuguese government maybe

Seeking to discredit his findings.

So you have these artefacts and

- You're gonna test them? - Yeah.

Why does he think the government resists?

Nationalism.

Nuno claims that he initially had support from the local

Authorities to research these structures,

But then the government in lisbon intervened and shut him down.

So, in your opinion, how old are these pyramids?

What sort of things did they find in there?

The arrowheads, what were they made of?

Stone? Iron.

Iron? Yes.

And would they find iron here?

No, no.

There's no iron. So they came from somewhere.

Yes.

Probably that shows signs of a sea-faring people,

- Came out of the med. - Yes.

Through the pillars of hercules.

Yeah.

Mm-hm.

Starting to sound like atlantis to me.

Plato's utopian society called atlantis,

Is said to have been lost to the world 12,000 years ago.

Now is it possible that this mythical city may actually be real?

Well an internet search for the answers may point you in

The direction of the azores, an archipelago in the

Mid-atlantic, controlled by portugal.

But there, mysterious ruins have sparked a heated debate.

The portuguese government did an official archaeological investigation

And they concluded there was

No evidence of settlements older than 600 years.

But one archaeologist, nuno ribiero thinks someone

Else inhabited the azores long before that.

He's brought me to another island,

Just east of the structures we saw on pico,

To try and prove it.

Oh wow, wow!

You see the, the stones.

- The arch? - On the top, yes.

Yeah, this is 100% for sure pre-roman this structure.

They are bronze age or maybe old.

I think it's more old.

So this structure proves that there were people here

Before the portuguese came.

Yes.

Although not everyone agrees with nuno's theory,

If there was in fact a mysterious people that lived

Here millennia ago, is there any evidence that they could

Be connected to the story of atlantis?

There. Oh yes.

What is this? What is it the symbol for?

It's a symbol that some people think is atlantis?

Yes.

Yeah, I mean potentially there could be a whole,

You know, civilization that was in these islands.

Yes.

Oh really?

Wow.

While the theory of a lost civilization here is pretty compelling,

There are a lot of competing theories out there

And we can't just focus on the azores.

We found a lot of interesting stuff here,

But really if we're gonna test this idea of atlantis,

We have to do a more critical breakdown of

What plato wrote about atlantis.

And luckily for us, we found a guy in morocco who has done a

Ton of statistical research about plato's writings about atlantis.

So we're gonna go to morocco and we'll have the real clues.

Hey guys, pack up, we're goin' to africa.

Yeah, now.

Over 2,000 years ago, plato wrote about a mythical

Island that sank beneath the waves and people have been

Obsessed with finding it ever since.

Is their search futile or

Could the fabled city actually be real?

Following clues from a few of my chat room buddies and also

A real lead from a german scientist,

Sebastian hubner, we're goin' to morocco.

It's really refreshing and pleasant.

When plato wrote about atlantis,

He spent an inordinate amount of words describing the

Geographical features of the fabled island.

Some call them clues.

Sebastian.

Sebastian hubner's late brother, michael,

Developed a sophisticated computer program

That attempted to find atlantis by using an algorithm

To analyze plato's text.

Sebastian stepped in to help.

Thinking atlantis is a real place.

Right.

Yeah.

My brother developed a quite

Sophisticated method to analyze the text of plato,

In order to generate location hypothesis of that country

That plato had in mind.

So tell me how the analysis of the text worked?

You can extract from the text all kinds of

Features and put them into an algorithm that maps these

Features onto the surface of the earth and then you can

Compute a probability of the location of that country

Plato had in mind.

Do you wanna show me the program and show me how it worked,

As best you can?

You have now a list of about 50, 51 of these features.

Oh wow.

In plato's text he gives 51 very specific details about atlantis.

Large mountains to the north, elephants are nearby.

So what michael hubner did is try to assign a yes or no to

Each feature in relation to whether it could have existed

At a modern day location.

This is with the assumption that plato is basing atlantis

On one place and not multiple locations.

For example, is it likely that someone saw elephants on the

North western coast of africa?

Yeah. In the azores?

Mm, not likely.

When you have a look at these features,

The areas where it's already highlighted,

It's here in green.

Yeah, okay, so what if you click all these now?

What happens if you just hit every single one on there?

Now it highlights this particular region and the region

Measures 200 by 200 kilometers roughly.

It cannot be elsewhere because I have here a certain

Probability that it is here and it's about

One to ten million that it is by chance.

So you're killin' me here.

Where is it? What's the spot?

This is like a hitchcock film,

You're gonna draw this out aren't you?

Yeah, the name is called souss-massa region in morocco.

Well so when you went there,

What did you find?

Plato said plans was constructed

With red, black and white rocks.

It's actually the first thing that you see when you go there.

So do you think you've found the city that

Plato was thinking of?

Yes. It's the only place where it can be.

Woo, alright.

Here we are.

Wow.

Interesting, very interesting.

A german computer specialist created a

Probability map using plato's text.

His goal, with the help of his brother,

Was to find the most likely location where atlantis would be.

According to hubner's algorithm,

There's a 99.9% chance that atlantis is located in an area

Of morocco known as the souss-massa plain.

Now that's if it's real and admittedly that's a pretty big if.

When I told my buddy I was heading to morocco to look for atlantis,

You know, he made fun of me.

But then after thinking about it for about 12 seconds,

He said, "wait, I wanna come, man."

Woo, alright.

Wow. So this is it?

Yeah, look at this.

Eric drummond flew into meet me.

He's a world class geologist and he'd always wanted to see

The souss-massa plain.

And since we're on nat geo's dime,

I said, "dude, have an extra slow gin fizz on the flight,

We gotta stay loose, we gotta stay flexible if we're gonna

Find evidence that matches plato's accounts of what

Happened to atlantis."

You nice these beds that are comin' up from the ocean

Are steeply dipping to the south.

Right.

And they're cutting into the formation there.

Okay.

That's what's called an angular unconformity.

Okay.

Okay, so there was a change in deposition there.

And so somethin' big happened.

There was a big tectonic event that tilted these beds.

With some giant incredible apocryphal seismic activity.

In plato's account of the destruction of atlantis,

After violent earthquakes and floods,

The entire island sank into the depths of the sea.

The other interesting feature is that you have

Resistant beds which are forming the ridges.

Okay.

And then you've got some softer beds and

That's forming caves in there.

It looks like they may be enhanced by human activity.

Plato wrote that atlantis had a complement of 1,200 ships.

They would have had to dock somewhere.

You can look at the surrounding point,

This is about the only beach around here.

So if you were out fishing and you were in trouble,

You'd land your boat here, you'd pull it up as far as you could,

You'd seek shelter under the caves.

So if atlantis had a sea-faring,

You know, navy they might have been based here?

Yeah.

One of the signifiers for atlantis was red, white and black rock.

Mm-hm.

And I see some of that here.

Yes.

The description of black red and white,

Your black rocks, out in the sea there,

Okay, your red, right above us,

This little arm, right.

And then you see a little pinch out of white rock.

Right, way up there, that's the white.

Yeah.

Well that's one of the things we're looking for.

Another clue. Cool.

The limestone cliffs that form the coastline are breathtaking.

It's crazy to think that these rocks are made entirely of

Things that were once alive, things that died and sank to

The bottom of the ocean, only to return as rock.

And then there's the people who met their end on the open water.

The great explorers who left their old world in pursuit of treasure,

Pursuit of fame, pursuit of the unknown.

As I ride on this bus, further into the souss-massa plain

I find myself thinking about just the lengths that men go

To venture into the unknown, just for the sake of it?

Mankind's insatiable curiosity,

It's part of us, it's part of what led us to unprecedented

Evolutionary success.

But it can also lead to our own destruction.

And so here I am, on the other side of the world and

My wife and my son and dog are goin' on without me,

I'm searching for something that at first

I didn't even believe existed.

Is that weird or is it just human nature?

It's weird, right?

Now here's a serious question.

Okay.

Have you ever had gold fever or like seen it?

Oh yeah, I've had bad cases of gold fever.

What does it do to you?

It does weird things to people.

For me, it just possesses me.

It does really strange things to people.

And you put the gold ahead of human life.

Human life, yeah.

Or your own life?

Or your own life or others around you.

Yeah, it's like we're built to like seek things,

Not have things.

You want what you have to pursue,

You don't want what you have.

Yeah, I feel like there's a part of the atlantis myth that

Has a treasure hunter element to it.

Yeah.

There's like an intersection of greed and myth

And fantasy and, you know, it's sort of wild.

Now after spending a couple of months in the atlantis wormhole,

Reading plato, pondering the ancients,

Now part of me wants atlantis to be real.

Now maybe it's just contrariness or maybe I'm

Being seduced by the legend.

But now as we arrive a few miles inland from the

Rocky cliffs of the souss-massa coast,

We find drastically different terrain.

It's disappointing for a hopeful atlantis seeker.

This guy, sebastian hubner and his brother, michael

Did this high-end statistical probability map and,

You know, the numbers say atlantis was in this area up

In these mountains, they're somewhere in the fog in front of us.

My question is, atlantis was surrounded by water,

I don't see any water.

Was there water in this area at some point?

To verify that, we can drill down into the soil.

Okay. And take some soil samples.

Okay.

Look, look here comes our drill rig.

Yeah, let's go back out of the way.

Number one, we're looking for organic material.

Okay. A reddish-brown soil.

Number two, if we intersect an old stream channel.

Okay.

The third thing we'd be lookin' for is a thing called caliche,

- It's a natural cement. - Okay.

And it forms as a result of fluctuating groundwater levels.

Eric estimates that the surface layer from the days of

Atlantis would now be buried 5 feet to 10 feet underground.

By digging down to that layer we can get a clear picture of

What this area might have looked like 12,000 years ago.

For the hubner brothers' theory to have any credibility,

We're gonna need to see some signs that this

Desert was abundant with fresh water,

Because plato wrote of fertile plains around the entire island.

So what I'm doing here is just makin' a boring log out of this.

Maybe we should make an exciting log out of it.

One that's really good.

You're getting the geology humor.

The drilling rig has reached 8 feet down.

This is the layer of soil dating back an estimated

12,000 years to the time plato said atlantis existed.

But eric knows we need to find a rock-solid layer of dirt to

Show that there was water here at that time.

Now we're getting to a light material.

So what did we reach here?

What do we think this is?

We found the caliche layer I was talking about.

Right.

And that's the cemented calcium carbonate zone and

That's caused by fluctuating ground water back

Around 5,000 to 12,000 years ago.

So there was enough ground water that it would

Have meant a green sahara.

Absolutely. Which would have meant

Trees and grass, lakes, streams.

Exactly.

Anything 5,000 years ago and deeper,

This was a green verdant valley.

Yes.

We found another clue.

Used some of the core

Samples we took in the souss-massa plain in morocco

To repaint what this region might have looked like during

The time plato says atlantis existed,

12,000 years ago.

So picture the sahara desert, but totally transformed and

Packed with hippos and elephants,

Giraffes at the watering holes,

Grazing on lush grass.

This is the green sahara theory.

Hey sam, I wanna show you something here.

Okay.

Eric and I take the map of the green sahara as it was

12,000 years ago and lay it over the present-day satellite map.

This entire area would have had fertile plains as

Atlantis was said to have.

Combining that with the hubner brothers' probability map,

We can now cruise along the western desert and look for

Anything that stands out.

Take a look at this structure here.

Okay right here,

- We seen it come out. - Oh yeah.

And eric immediately navigates us to a geological structure

That definitely does just that.

Isn't that amazing.

What is that?

It's called the richat structure.

That thing is about 25 miles in diameter.

How did you hear about it?

I done a little research on it.

Wow.

The formation was actually formed by a

Volcanic plug underneath it, pushing upwards on strata and it

Formed these concentric circles where the ridges are

The more resistant rock and the valleys are the less resistant.

Right, so we've got actually, we've got two rings of earth and possibly

Three rings that could have been filled with water.

We have evidence of that too.

- See this white area here? - Mm-hm.

That's what's called a playa lake.

A playa lake. Mm-hm.

So it's the remains of an ancient lake bed.

Okay.

And it's known that there were

Freshwater fossils there found.

So there was freshwater?

There was freshwater within that.

There was a lake there,

A very different africa than is there today.

Wow, so there was three rings of water and two rings of earth.

I mean, look at these rings.

This is pretty sweet.

And so it's considerably inland.

Yeah.

It would have been inundated by any sea level rise

Because it's too far inland and it's too high in elevation.

- But, maybe we could have an inland sea there. - Mm-hm.

25 miles is pretty damn big.

Yeah.

This would seem to fit the bill for an inspiration for atlantis.

It's amazing to think that that is the exact structure

Plato is describing.

Yeah, it seems to fit the bill.

Or it could be one of the inspiration points for atlantis.

He may be borrowing elements from different places but

There's nothing in the world like that, is there?

No, it's very uh, it's very unique I think.

That's in mauritania, right?

Yeah.

Although the richat is located over 700 miles south

Of the souss-massa plain, which is where hubner's model

Pinpoints atlantis, this lead is just too intriguing to ignore.

This mysterious structure sits in the country of mauritania.

If you travel east and beyond the richat,

It turns into hundreds of square miles of desert,

No-man's land.

No roads, there are no towns listed on the map.

It's in the middle of nowhere.

And of course, when it comes to atlantis,

The richat has long been scattered out by plenty of

Internet sleuths, but almost no-one from the western world

Has ever been there because of the possibility of getting

Kidnapped or beheaded.

Governments around the world warn against visiting.

This obviously serves as a deterrent for most atlantis seekers.

Josh. How are you, man?

My pleasure.

Josh sigurdson is one of the very few atlantis

Enthusiasts who risked his life to investigate the

Richat structure or the richat or the richat?

That doesn't sound right.

Honestly I don't know.

Does anyone really know how to pronounce anything?

Just lay off.

First of all, tell me how you got into this.

How did this get started for you?

Well, I heard a lot of theories about this richat structure

In africa and apart from a couple of people over the years,

No-one really documented the place,

No-one actually went there on the ground.

And I felt if no-one else is gonna do it,

I might as well do it.

Do you have a background in archeology or was there

Just a what the hell kinda thing?

I just have a passion for it.

I always have had a passion for the idea of this place

They call atlantis.

So you went to the richat structure, um,

When was this by the way, when did you go?

This was in may 2019.

May 2019, so recently.

They keep taking my passport every hour or so.

I've ended up taking a series of

Trains, buses, boats and hitchhiking across the western sahara

Until I got to mauritania.

It's disputed country, it's a very volatile region.

It's considered a red zone by many governments around the world.

Why is mauritania on the red list?

There have been quite a few kidnappings over the years,

There have been beheadings and the weather is

A factor there as well.

120, 130 sometimes.

Right.

The biggest issue for me would have been crossing the

Border from western sahara into mauritania as there's

Still an active minefield there.

There's a no-man's land you must cross where there's

Exploded vehicles everywhere you look.

The driver who brought us there,

We paid him $150 to bring us across a minefield,

And he's white knuckling all the way.

So how far down in was the richat structure?

Richat is somewhere around central mauritania and

You basically have to go over sand dunes,

'cause there's no more road.

It's very evident once you get there,

Because the first thing you see is just the circular ridge

Of a massive structure.

What does it look like when you're out there in it?

It almost looks as though the whole ground, all soil,

Was ripped away from the ground.

It's very barren, there's salt everywhere.

What do you think that is from?

Well, one could theorize that the ocean

Once reached the structure.

I tasted the salt to ensure that it actually was salt.

That's salt.

That's salt.

I bought this from a nomad at the edge of the richat structure.

It's very typical of the region because there is an

Interesting pattern that you see around the region.

You know what it looks like to me,

I mean there's the rings, right?

That's the symbol for atlantis.

Two rings of water and three rings of land.

Absolutely.

And there's evidence of ancients,

Thousands of years ago in that region having that exact same

Symbology utilizing this structure at some point in time.

Talking to josh about the richat structure,

It's problematic.

You know, even presuming we can get in there,

The danger factor means we can't bring an archaeological team,

We can't bring a professor,

There's no way anybody can set up a real dig.

We need a way in.

The search has shifted, along with my feelings.

I was a pretty serious skeptic,

But now I wanna find something.

Maybe it's gold fever, the innate treasure hunter in everyone.

I've fallen into the atlantis trap.

But who wouldn't wanna find a lost utopia?

It seems like going there is not the answer.

Maybe there's a way to,

You know, look from space?

Excellent thinking, sam, there is.

This technology is revolutionizing our ability to

Find things everywhere.

Be,

Piecing together a combination of scientific data and

Internet conspiracy theories, in an attempt to find any

Clues to what could have been the inspiration for plato's

Cursed island of atlantis.

My research has pointed me in the direction of a geological phenomenon,

Known as the richat structure.

But the richat is so remote and so dangerous to get to,

My investigation almost went unfulfilled until I enlisted

The help of a person who many consider the modern day indiana jones,

Sarah parcak, space archaeologist.

It's kinda the fun name for using a series of

Space-based or aerial tools and looking at subtle changes

In differences on the earth's surface.

So for example, let's just say you have a buried tomb.

Well we all know, say going down into our cellar or a wine cellar,

Right, it's x degrees cooler because it's buried.

And so what we do is we look for these subtle heat

Differences to find voids and you can clearly see the

Square outlines, tombs, that are just like half a degree cooler

Which is pretty awesome.

This technology is quite literally revolutionizing

Archeology and our ability to find things everywhere.

So we started looking into,

You know, where atlantis could actually be and you come

Across this richat structure, which you can see from space.

Is there anything interesting about the

Richat structure as an archaeologist?

Well, it's sort of this sort of semi-enigmatic structure.

I'm fascinated by it.

We know very little archaeologically about the region.

That whole part of africa is real unchartered territory.

There could potentially be some amazing things out there.

Maybe we can find out?

What I'm hoping is that you can,

You know, bring some of your expertise and maybe there is

Something to see but it just has to be from space.

Do you think you could get the team to task a satellite?

I've always wanted to task a satellite to something,

So is there a chance?

Sure, but we're talking 5,000 to 7,000 square kilometers

Of area which is pretty massive.

But hey we're excited to dive in.

We'll see what happens, I can't wait.

Sarah will gather thousands of satellite images of the

Richat structure and then analyze them looking for anomalies.

It's the same process that helped her uncover over

3,000 lost settlements in egypt.

My poor little treasure obsessed brain can't help but

Hope that she finds something that dates back

12,000 years to plato's atlantis.

So, I'm going to very quickly email you.

So initially when we started looking,

We weren't really finding anything.

We kept looking and looking and looking and nothing

Was popping out.

There's no visible architecture of any kind anywhere.

But then once our eyes got adjusted to the landscape,

Then hundreds and hundreds of features started popping out,

If not thousands.

In the heart of the richart structure are two absolutely

Massive rectangular structures that look like they have

Rounded towers at the end.

To me that was one of the most exciting finds.

These are pretty major.

They're pretty wild and they're definitely ancient,

They're not anything more modern.

Oh my gosh.

Yep. So we'll go to the western most one.

We'll zoom in and zoom in and zoom in.

You can actually see the little animal pens.

So this could have easily housed more than 100 camels or donkeys.

This wouldn't have been a place where you just kinda

Camp out for a night.

They're clearly going to have food,

There's going to be trading that goes on.

There probably would have been wells there.

In fact previous research reports that were done,

They've said, you know, we've been there,

We found hand axes from more than a 100,000 years ago.

We found neolithic blades.

But absolutely no evidence whatsoever until now,

Of any kind of built human structures in and

Around the richat structure.

But I think the story has changed.

These probably date to 8,000 to 5,000 years ago.

I'm super, super excited about what we found.

That opens up, I think, a chapter of archeology that

Archaeologists didn't know was there.

So, is atlantis real?

Did we find it?

That's something you have to look into your heart and answer.

I know what my 11 year old thinks,

He showed me the website.

And don't get me wrong, with the help of my new best friend,

The brilliant sarah parcak,

I'm always down to open a new chapter of archeology.

But the truth about atlantis is I think we're on the

Receiving end of a thousand year game of telephone.

2,500 years ago a philosopher wrote about a cursed island

Disappearing into the sea.

Anyone who could read in europe from the renaissance onwards,

Read plato and the myth of atlantis grew.

The gold and silver buildings inflamed imaginations and the

Legend outgrew the story.

People still seek atlantis.

What it comes down to is idea that the atlantians lost their

Ability to handle wealth well, and then they started to

Become corrupt and that brings the curse.

It's a metaphor.

Plato was talking about a people grown prideful,

Cursed with hubris and consumed by ambition.

People who had lost touch with their success.

Now does that ring a bell?

Any of that sound familiar?

Trying to find atlantis is exactly the wrong thing,

It's the wrong lesson.

In fact, it's the opposite of what plato intended.

But, human nature hasn't changed and

The lesson and the metaphor hold true.

The curse of atlantis is all too real.

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