Atlantis was first described over 2,500 years ago by the philosopher Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias. He wrote of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An archaeologist says he's found the lost city of Atlantis in what would obviously be a groundbreaking find. However, History.com ...

Zachary Quinto stars in “In Search Of” in hopes of finding Atlantis. Pic credit: History In Search Of on the History Channel brings the mystery of Atlantis back to the forefront. Zachary Quinto, best ...

Atlantis is a legendary continent described in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, which is said to have existed 9,000 years before Plato's time. There are various theories as to ...

It was Plato, around 360 B. C., who first described an ancient, exotic island kingdom catastrophically buried beneath the sea when its once-virtuous people angered the gods with their pronounced tilt ...

As the story goes, the glorious ancient city of Atlantis sank under the sea. There are different accounts offering bits and pieces of the lost city's location, but the general consensus has always ...

Some say it is in the Aegean, others in the Azores, off the Celtic Ridge of Britain or even as far as the South China Sea, but a California researcher says everyone has been looking in the wrong place ...

Historian Bettany Hughes certainly thinks there’s some evidence. Clutching her pencil-annotated hardback edition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, she goes in search of the lost city on the Greek ...

In history’s long gallery of hoaxes and half-truths, Plato’s myth of Atlantis holds a privileged place. Spun out in only a few pages of the dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias,” the tale of this sunken ...