Atlantis - Lost Continent of Atlantis

Atlantis is a story from Plato's Timaeus.

Writer and Hotellier Erich von Däniken claims that extraterrestrials had contact with the ancient world.

This forum discussion argues for and against the existence of Atlantis.

Page from Plato's opus about Atlantis. English translation by Benjamin Jowett.

Articles, links and timelines on Atlantis as well as the basic story based on plato.

Kevin Christopher explains why there isn't likely to be a Schliemann uncovering the Atlantis of myth because its origin was imaginary.

Bernard Suzanne explains why he considers the story of Atlantis a myth.

Plato gave the world the oldest remaining written account of Atlantis, in Critias as a vast island-continent west of the mediterranean, surrounded by the Atlantic ocean. Comparison of ancient Egyptian records of Keftiu identifies a number of similarities to Plato's Atlantis. It is likely that Atlantis was the land of the Minoan culture, namely ancient Crete and Thera.

Theory that the lost continet of Atlantis is located in the South China Sea.

Plato's dialogue concerned with Atlantis and Solon. From Benjamin Jowett translation.

Carlos Parada's map of Atlantis with references from antiquity and catalogued information from the ancient sources.

Book Review. The explosion of Thera was a volcano, not the earthquake said by Plato to have destroyed the lost kingdom.