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The mystery of the lost city of Atlantis still puzzles the people of the world of billions. Over the years, many people have claimed to identify and prove the location of Atlantis but to no avail. The man who started this was Plato. He stated that Atlantis was an advanced civilisation some 11600 years ago. According to Plato, Atlantis was surrounded by active volcanoes which sunk during an eruption and disappeared forever.
Plato was the one who brought the world the story of Atlantis which began somewhere around 348BC with the story of Atlantis coming from two of his works from two short pieces, Tinaeus and Critias. He stated that his writings were an account of the Utopian society. According to Plato, Atlantis was a large island which was bigger than Libya and Asia combined in the Atlantic Ocean but its power extended beyond the “Pillars of Hercules” into the Mediterranean and into Egypt and possibly Italy.
The best place to begin the quest to find the geographical location of Atlantis is to Plato’s description [1]Thereupon one of the (Egyptian) priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.”
Understanding Plato’s description is difficult as it suggests that Atlantis maybe located in the Mediterranean Sea as well as the Atlantic Ocean due to the amount of volcanoes and vast amount of water. Another fact that supports this is the lost city of Santorni was discovered in these locations.
[2]Plato, however, was not the only person to write about the lost city of Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans have mentioned Atlantis in the “Chilam Balam”, “Dresden Codex” and the “Popul Vuh”. Also, in Europe, Holland, the frysian book which is one of the oldest books ever found described Atlantis. All of the writings all had one thing in common; it described the amount of fire and water that were seen with the eye. The accounts of the 4 descriptions are quite accurate with another and match the accounts of Plato’s description of the location of Atlantis.
[2] http://atlantis.haktanir.org/ch3.html
