They hadn’t found Helike. But a prehistoric settlement. Normally it would have been an extraordinary discovery. But for them it meant that yet again Helike had eluded them. To find it they would have to look somewhere else. ibid.
This time there was no doubt. It was another piece of pottery with the distinctive black glaze. It could only have come from the time of Helike. And so they dug a further exploration trench nearby ... Three metres down they found a wall. Perhaps part of a house ... It meant that this area had once been submerged by a saltwater lagoon two and a half thousand years ago. ibid.
Two and a half thousand years ago the great philosopher Plato wrote of an island he called Atlantis. It was swallowed up by the sea in a single day and night. Vanishing without a trace. Ever since people have wondered where this mysterious island might have been. Or whether it was all a myth. Atlantis, BBC 2011
On Santorini itself archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city, a lost world covered by the catastrophe. ibid.
The Minoans dominated the Mediterranean for over a thousand years. Until an island seventy miles north of Crete blew itself apart. The island as Thera. Known today as Santorini. Reconstructions of Thera show it consisted of circular belts of sea and land – just like Plato described Atlantis. ibid.
Minoan women were remarkable independent and influential. ibid.
From the volcanic deposits we know the early stages of the eruption covered the island with a sprinkling of light ash. Enough to poison the water supply. ibid.
The greatest disaster the ancient world had seen. ibid.
The sound of the eruption was heard as far away as Egypt. A superheated column of gas, ash and rock blasted six miles into the atmosphere, forming a mushroom cloud similar to the atomic bomb. ibid.
300 decibels ... Magma bombs ... Pyroclastic flows ... Tsunamis ... It would have taken only twenty minutes for the first tsunami to have reached Crete ... Three times larger than Krakatoa ... Global temperatures dipped ... Minoan society was shaken to the core ... Humans sacrificed. ibid.
This is the quest to find Atlantis. For centuries arguments have raged over whether Atlantis really existed. Finding Atlantis, National Geographic 2011
Many believe the pillars of Hercules describe the peaks that flank the entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar ... Dr Richard Freund believes that the best location for Atlantis is in southern Spain. ibid.
Dr Kuehne observed strange circular patterns in the satellite photograph of the Donana mudflats. ibid.
Is it possible that the people we call the Minoans referred to their home by another legendary name: Atlantis? ibid.
Santorini ... A spectacular event happened here in Minoan times. ibid.
The Minoan civilisation did not sink into the sea. ibid.
Back on the mud flaps in Spain Dr Freund believes that this team is on the verge of a discovery that conforms to all the criteria outlined by Plato. ibid.
The discovery off the coast may be linked to potential finds in Donana. ibid.
All the evidence is pushing researchers to excavate but the ground water is just below the surface. ibid.
Spanish archaeologists recently made an important discovery inland ... Cancho Roano ... Ruins two-hundred kilometres from the coast. ibid.
A great myth endures: an all-powerful civilisation swallowed by the sea. An ancient mystery that inspires a modern-day obsession. The Truth Behind: Atlantis, 2011
Here in the Bahamas just eight hundred metres off the coast of north Bimini a puzzling structure lies under the surface of the Atlantic ocean. The is the Bimini Road. ibid.
Atlantis hunters seem more gripped by its powers than ever before. ibid.
There is just one original source: fourth century B.C. Greece. The philosopher Plato described the all-powerful kingdom for the first and only time. ibid.
There are some intriguing clues on the coast of Israel near Caesarea. ibid.
On the Greek island of Crete most of Minoan civilisation was drowned by a tsunami. (Atlantis & Tsunami & Minoans & Crete) ibid.
The Mediterranean theories don’t stand up to scrutiny. ibid.
It seems the slabs have been imported into the Bimini area. ibid.
The Nazis claimed that the Germans were the master race destined to rule .. For his proof he [Himmler] turned to an ancient myth – the lost world of Atlantis. Raiders of the Lost Past: The Nazi Hunt for Atlantis, Yesterday 2013
Schafer’s vision was very different and very clear: he wanted to conduct an objective scientific survey in Tibet. ibid.
Plato described Atlantis as a wealthy powerful city where they worship Poseidon. They were fierce rivals to Athens. Contemporary historians describe Helike in much the same terms. Mystery Investigator: Olly Steeds: Atlantis, Discovery 2010
Atlantis was the island of Santorini. ibid.
According to legend long before the dawn of civilisation there lived a people of advanced technology, government and imperial ambitions. They inherited an island continent called Atlantis, until it was suddenly destroyed. But did it ever really exist? Secrets of Atlantis, 2016
There are two main groups of Atlantis advocates: those looking for the lost continent itself and those who believe that survivors of Atlantis left their mark on many of history’s ancient monuments. ibid.
The person who really put Atlantis back on the map was the extraordinary self-proclaimed psychic Edgar Casey. He claimed to have visions of a continent ... left as a group of islands. ibid.
Casey predicted that proof of the existence of Atlantis would be found in the Bahamas in 1968 or 1969. And sure enough in 1968 pilots flying over the island of Bimini spotted this structure from the sky. One and a half kilometres of stone organised into what is now referred to as the Bimini Road. ibid.
No-one denies that the story of Atlantis ultimately came from Egypt. The familiar account from Plato c.400 B.C. was received by him from Critias, who had received it from Solon, who had received it from the Egyptian priests at the town of Sais. So the Atlantis myth came out of Egypt. Alan Alford, interview 14th July 1998
I believe that Atlantis did exist. And when the Earth moved and the waters came rushing in upon it, a continent was submerged and a remnant survived. And from these evolved the great Mayan civilisation. F A Mitchell-Hedges, Danger My Alley, biography 1954
Probably the most intriguing readings Cayce gave were on the subject of the lost land of Atlantis. Decoding the Past s1e19: The Other Nostradamus, History 2005
The continuing industry of discovering Atlantis illustrates the dangers of reading Plato. For he is clearly using what has become a standard device of fiction – stressing the historicity of an event (and the discovery of hitherto unknown authorities) as an indication that what follows is fiction. The idea is that we should use the story to examine our ideas of government and power. We have missed the point if instead of thinking about these issues we go off exploring the seabed. The continuing misunderstanding of Plato as historian here enables us to see why his distrust of imaginative writing is sometimes justified. Professor Julia Annas
Pseudo-archaeologists continue to perpetuate the idea that Atlantis was a racialized place. David Hatcher Childress, one of the most flagrant violators of basic archaeological reasoning, has provided perhaps the most outrageous racialized vision of Atlantis. In discussing Tiahuanaco in Bolivia – as a palace built long before any Native South Americans were present – Childress proposes that the majestic site could only have been constructed by the ‘Atlantean League’. The league was composed of mythic seafarers who ‘sailed the world spreading a megalithic culture, and wore red turbans over their blond hair’ (Childress 1986: 139, emphasis added). Nowhere did Plato, the only actual source on Atlantis, mention the blond hair of the Atlanteans. Plato did mention that the men and women of Atlantis, being semi-divine, were inherently good … The correlation between goodness and whiteness is thus obvious in Childress’s formulation and in much else that has been written about Atlantis. Charles E Orser, Race and Practice in Archaeological Interpretation
Atlantis: a legendary island continent that disappeared into the bottom of the sea … The entire island exploded and sank into oblivion … Could Atlantis have existed? Ancient Mysteries: Atlantis: The Lost Civilisation, A&E 1995
The origins of the legend spring from a source that could not be more reputable: the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. ibid.
The ancient city of Troy … may have been one and the same with Atlantis. ibid.
Atlantis: a great civilisation swallowed by the sea. This was the legend recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato: but did Plato really exist? Ancient Mysteries s1e4: Atlantis, Channel 5 2017
Plato seems to place Atlantis in the Atlantic ocean. But in Plato’s time the Atlantic ocean was completely unchartered. ibid.
There’s only one island in the Mediterranean that seems to match this description: Santorini. ibid.
Evidence of a huge volcanic eruption. ibid.
Thera [Santorini] and Crete were at the centre of a huge Minoan trading network. ibid.