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What is Atlantis? Atlantis was a very advanced civilization filled with half god half human people. But they were behaving bad so as a punishment them and their city got put in the ocean. Plato was the one who spread the story of this Atlantis. To this day the lost city has not been found so some people have started to think it was fake. To this day it is one of the biggest history mysteries.

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He was talking about the world wide deluge. Which flooded the world and maybe he was talking about Atlantis getting flooded as well.

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Maybe he just made a story which was not intended to be thought of as  true. Then he was in to deep in the lie and didn't want to come out. Then tell people he was lying.

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Plato was referring of the island of thera. Which is now called Santorini. In 1646 BC  Thera had one of the biggest volcanic eruptions ever which some people think this was how Atlantis got destroyed.

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It looks as if   it could be fake but I think it deserves some investigating. There are a possible two scenarios either Plato was lying about everything or he was telling the truth.  It was a long time ago so it is hard to find any evidence on it. But we do know for sure that it is possible. Which is what makes this case so interesting.  What I think happened is that Plato was telling the story of the island of Santorini but he over exaggerated it a bit.
- Detective Harry Peard

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I think that the island Santorini was Atlantis. But all of Atlantis got destroyed from the massive volcanic eruption.

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1. Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that suddenly sunk into the ocean.

The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, and not just a legend invented by Plato, didn't surface until the late 19th century. In his 1882 book, "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World," the writer Ignatius Donnelly argued the accomplishments of the ancient world (such as metallurgy, language and agriculture) must have been handed down by an earlier advanced civilization, as the ancients weren't sophisticated enough to develop these advances on their own. Assuming the Atlantic Ocean was only a few hundred feet deep, Donnelly described a continent flooded by shifting ocean waters that sank in the exact location Plato said it did: in the Atlantic Ocean just outside the "Pillars of Hercules," the two rocks that mark the entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar. Long after modern oceanography and a greater understanding of plate tectonics poked holes in his shifting-waters thesis, some continue to cling to Donnelly's theory, mostly due to its adherence to Plato's placement of Atlantis in the mid-Atlantic.

2. Atlantis was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle.

Inspired by Donnelly, many later writers expanded on his theories and added their own speculations as to where Atlantis may have been. One of these writers was Charles Berlitz, grandson of the founder of the well-known language schools, and author of many books on paranormal phenomena. In the 1970s, Berlitz claimed Atlantis was a real continent located off the Bahamas that had fallen victim to the notorious "Bermuda Triangle," a region of the Atlantic where a number of ships had supposedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Supporters of this theory point to the discovery of what look like man-made walls and streets found off the coast of Bimini, although scientists have evaluated these structures and found them to be natural beach-rock formations.

3. Atlantis was Antarctica.

Another theory-that Atlantis was actually a much more temperate version of what is now Antarctica-is based on the work of Charles Hapgood, whose 1958 book "Earth's Shifting Crust" featured a foreword by Albert Einstein. According to Hapgood, around 12,000 years ago the Earth's crust shifted, displacing the continent that became Antarctica from a location much further north than it is today. This more temperate continent was home to an advanced civilization, but the sudden shift to its current frigid location doomed the civilization's inhabitants-the Atlanteans-and their magnificent city was buried under layers of ice. Hapgood's theory surfaced before the scientific world gained a full understanding of plate tectonics, which largely relegated his "shifting crust" idea to the fringes of Atlantean beliefs.

4. The story of Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the Black Sea Flood.

This theory presumes Atlantis itself was fictional, but the story of its demise was inspired by an actual historical event: the breaching of the Bosporus by the Mediterranean Sea and subsequent flooding of the Black Sea, around 5600 B.C. At the time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake half its current size. The flooding inundated civilizations known to flourish along its shore with hundreds of feet of sea water in a short period of time (perhaps less than a year). As inhabitants of the region scattered, they spread tales of the deluge, and may have led-thousands of years later-to Plato's account of Atlantis.

5. Atlantis is the story of the Minoan civilization, which flourished in the Greek islands circa 2500-1600 B.C.

One of the more recent Atlantean theories concerns the civilization that flourished on the Greek islands of Crete and Thera (now Santorini) more than 4,000 years ago: the Minoans, named for the legendary King Minos. Believed to be Europe's first great civilization, the Minoans built splendid palaces, constructed paved roads and were the first Europeans to use a written language (Linear A). At the height of their power, however, the Minoans suddenly disappeared from history-an enduring mystery that has fueled belief in a link between this great, doomed civilization and Plato's Atlantis. Historians believe around 1600 B.C., a massive earthquake shook the volcanic island of Thera, triggering an eruption that spewed 10 million tons of rock, ash and gas into the atmosphere. Tsunamis that followed the eruption were large enough to wipe out Minoan cities throughout the region, a devastation that may have made the Minoans vulnerable to invaders from the Greek mainland.

6. Atlantis didn't exist at all-Plato invented it.

Most historians and scientists throughout history have come to the conclusion that Plato's account of the lost kingdom of Atlantis was fictional. According to this argument, the Greek philosopher invented Atlantis as his vision of an ideal civilization, and intended the story of its demise to be a cautionary tale of the gods punishing human hubris. No written records of Atlantis exist outside of Plato's dialogues, including in any of the numerous other texts that survive from ancient Greece. Furthermore, despite modern advances in oceanography and ocean-floor mapping, no trace of such a sunken civilization has ever been found.

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The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, and not just a legend invented by Plato, didn't surface until the late 19th century. In his 1882 book, "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World," the writer Ignatius Donnelly argued the accomplishments of the ancient world (such as metallurgy, language and agriculture) must have been handed down by an earlier advanced civilization, as the ancients weren't sophisticated enough to develop these advances on their own.

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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Secret documents hidden in the library of the Rosicrucians reveal humans' mysterious past and the inevitable future of the human race.

What was the function of the pyramids? How and why was Atlantis destroyed? Who are the guardians of the secret wisdom?

Where did our creators come from?

Let us open these ancient gates and look into the past and to better understand future...

The Vatican library is not the only place that is full of secrets. There are also some secret societies that possess unique knowledge of our planet's history.

Today, I would like to write a little about the secret knowledge of the Rosicrucians, a society of mystics, formed in late medieval Germany.

Rosicrucian French Grandmaster Bernard Raymond And Secret Documents

According to secret documents in the library of the Rosicrucians, the Greek philosopher Plato (427 or 428 - 347 B.C) was a depositary of the Atlantean tradition and his account is genuine.
Parts of the teachings of the Rosicrucians have been revealed to the order's members by the French Grand Master Raymond Bernard (1923-2006).

According to Raymond Bernard "Atlantis was a highly civilized continent with means of transmission and transportation compared with which ours are nothing. In its time, it was the heart of the world.

"Colonized" people received knowledge in keeping with their capacities.

In particularly "open" countries, a direct relationship was established by the College of Sages, that is, the highest initiates of the time, guardians of the secret wisdom, and this relationship was marked by a pyramidal temple in the image of the supreme pyramid where the College had its seat in Atlantis, and where its knowledge was preserved.

One Supreme Pyramid And Atlantean Wisdom

Only one pyramid, however, has reproduced the supreme pyramid , and even then in a different "measure"; what is known as the Pyramid of Cheops. It perpetuates in the face of the world the totality of Atlantean wisdom, whereas others reveal only part of it.

In the rather near future, "discoveries" beneficial to mankind will put an end to many arguments.

The Atlanteans knew the nature and power of certain cosmic forces, particularly telluric currents, and carefully applied them to agriculture and the harmonious maintenance of the overall balance of these currents, to avoid all geological catastrophes that it was within man's power to avert.
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The pyramids also fulfilled this function because of the duly studied locations in which they were built. Elsewhere, points of protection were sufficient. This was the case, for example, with dolmens and menhirs. They precisely marked places of conjoined forces and focalized universal energy, where efficacious ceremonies could be held.

It was the same with megaliths, many of which can still be seen all over the world in estates, fields, and even cities; but their sole function was to amplify cosmic energy and improve harvests.

It can be considered, moreover, that all these secondary elements were attached, from the standpoint of energy, to the supreme pyramid. The entire earth thus constituted a kind of efficient receptacle for the whole of cosmic forces...

When the supreme pyramid had been unfavorably altered as the result of ignorant and ambitious intrigues, the planetary catastrophe that engulfed Atlantis transformed the surface of the earth and became engraved in the folk imagination under the inaccurate name of the Deluge.

In the basis of the teachings of authentic African secret societies, a particle of the Atlantean wisdom has been preserved.
At the time of the catastrophe, the supreme sages took refuge in Egypt. They had safeguarded the scientific and technical knowledge that made Atlantis a continent whose civilization has never been equaled, not even in our time...
The sages did not reconstitute the Empire, because of what happened and because this in accordance with the universal plan.

A New Atlantis

It is the whole world that is called upon to become the New Atlantis... The human will is always free. Once again, and for the last time, mankind will face an ultimate choice from which will result either an era of extraordinary civilization or the end, not of a continent this time, but of the world.

This time of choice is approaching. It will be marked b the reappearance of Atlantis, the resurgence of the vanished continent before the astonished human race.

The Sages have guided our development. The have given men the discoveries that were suggested to him, as soon as he was able to understand, receive, and use each of them without danger; they have delivered, in the strictest sense of the word, the scientific and technical knowledge acquired by the Atlanteans and preserved by them and their successors...

The knowledge of the Atlanteans came from another galaxy and was brought by those who became the first rulers of Atlantis. Some of these extraterrestrials returned to their home, others remained on earth to carry out a mission, all of the world's civilizations come from this second group." (Bernard Raymond - L'empire Invisible)

This is a quite fascinating account from the French Rosicrucian Grand Master Raymond Bernard. How much of this really happened in the past, is impossible to say, but it's certainly worth asking the the question - "Does this mean we are all children of the stars?"

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We have all heard of Atlantis, the legendary island that sank into the sea in a single day and night. But who came up with it, was Atlantis a real place, and is there more to the story than this?

We get the story of Atlantis from the Greek philosopher Plato. Really, from two of his writings, Timaeus and Critias. The books date to around 360 BC.

In them, Plato wrote that the Greek sage Solon was given the story in Egypt by a priest. Upon his return, Solon shared the story with his relative Dropides. Then Dropides passed it down to his son Critias, who told his grandson, also named Critias, who finally shared it with the philosopher Socrates and others who were present.

This list should not be taken as historical fact but as a true account of what Plato wrote. Whether we decide to believe in the legend is our own choice, but we can probably agree that this might have been the first recorded game of telephone.

10 We Know The Location

Many books and TV shows have been made about the possible location of Atlantis. A quick Google search will show that some people say Santorini is Atlantis, while others believe that the waters off Bimini are hiding a road to the lost city. However, if we look at Plato's text, it tells us where the submerged island once stood.

The text reads that Atlantis "came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean." It goes on to say that "there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you [referring to ancient Greeks], called the Pillars of Heracles."

Today, we call these the Straits of Gibraltar, where Spain and Africa are separated by a narrow strip of sea. While not quite GPS coordinates, this narrows the island's location down from a tourist trap in the Bahamas.

In 2011, University of Hartford archaeologist Richard Freund and his team found "memorial cities," or cities that were built in the image of Atlantis. The series of cities were found buried in the swamps of Donana National Park, just north of Cadiz, Spain.

As it turns out, Cadiz sits right outside the straits. This has Freund convinced that the real Atlantis was buried in the mud flats of the Atlantic. His findings match the story's text that "the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island."

Cadiz is also said to be one of the oldest cities still standing in Western Europe. It is believed to have been built by the Phoenicians around 700 BC, but some records claim the city goes as far back as 1100 BC. Greek myth says that the city dates back even before this.

Why is this important? Long ago, the city's name was Gades. This is convenient since the text tells of an Atlantean prince called Gadeirus by the prehistoric citizens of Gades. He was given the far eastern side of Atlantis.

This part of the island would have faced modern-day Cadiz. That's why the story says that Cadiz, or Gades, was named after the prince. Of course, Plato wrote all this at least 340 years after the city's founding, so maybe he was being liberal when he was naming Atlantean princes.

9 Atlantis Was Named After A Demigod

Most people probably believe that Atlantis got its name from being in the Atlantic Ocean, but the text claims that it is the other way around. As the story goes, Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, had five pairs of male twins with a mortal Atlantean woman named Cleito.

The god gave each of his 10 sons different portions of the island over which to rule. Gadeirus was the second-eldest of these sons. While he may have had a city in Spain named after him, it was his older twin, Atlas, who would have the glory of being the island's namesake.

As the firstborn, Atlas had the entire island, and even the surrounding ocean, named after him. His children would also reign over Atlantis forever. Talk about picking favorites.

8 Half The Story Is Missing

We know that Plato wrote at least two books about Atlantis. Today, we have a complete version of Timaeus, but we do not have a completed copy of Critias.

Critias ends after Zeus, head of the Greek gods, "collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the center of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows." It ends there. Talk about a cliffhanger.

It is not known if Plato left the book incomplete on purpose or if the finished version was lost long ago. Not only are we missing the ending of Critias, but it is thought that Plato wrote, or at least planned to write, a third book on Atlantis called Hermocrates.

There are a couple of facts to support this theory. A line in Critias reads, "Critias, we will grant your request, and we will grant the same by anticipation to Hermocrates, as well as to you and Timaeus." This suggests that a third account of the story was to be given by Hermocrates.

Also, the names of the three books may contain a hidden message, especially when one looks at the order in which Plato wrote, or would have written, them. Timaeus comes from the Greek tio, meaning "to honor." Critias comes from the Greek krima, meaning "judgment."

Lastly, Hermocrates is derived from "Hermes," the messenger of the Greek gods. Timaeus honors prehistoric Athens for its heroism. Critias presumably ends with Zeus's judgment of Atlantis. But what message might Hermocrates have delivered?

The answer may lie in what we know about Hermocrates himself. He was a real-life military leader who helped to lead the successful defense of Syracuse against Athens during the Peloponnesian War. This is much like the story of Atlantis. In the story, an Athenian state from archaic times repels an attack from the superior force of Atlantis.

Maybe the message in Hermocrates would have touched on why Athens' attack on Syracuse failed and how Syracuse was able to defend itself from conquest. Unless someone finds a copy of this book, we may never know the whole story of Atlantis.

7 Atlantis Would Be At Least 11,500 Years Old

Solon was said to be the wisest of all Greek sages. The text states that the story of Atlantis was handed down to Solon in Egypt when he wanted to "draw" one of the priests to speak about their oldest of tales.

To do this, Solon decided to tell the priests about the oldest Greek stories he could recall. He spoke to them about a great flood and about the first man. After listening to Solon, one priest responded, "O Solon, Solon . . . there is not an old man among you . . . in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition."

The priest went on to say that Athens, Solon's home city, was much older than he thought it was. In the Egyptian registers at Sais [where they were], it was written that Sais was founded 8,000 years before their own time. It was also recorded there that Athens was founded 1,000 years before Sais and that the Athenians of this time fought off Atlantis.

Solon lived from roughly 630 BC to about 560 BC. If the story is true, then the fall of Atlantis occurred around 9500 BC. This would make Atlantis about as old as Gobekli Tepe, which is dated to around 10,000 BC and is considered to be the world's first temple by archaeologists today.

This would flip history on its head. But for now, it will have to remain on its feet.

6 The Story Is True . . . According To Plato

We said that no one should take this list as a historical account. In the text, however, Critias claims that his story is true. "Then listen . . . to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon." To which Socrates responds, "Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?"

It is important to note that Plato discerns fact from fiction in his story. "There is a story . . . that once upon a time, Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burned up all that was upon the Earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the Earth."

Here, Plato acknowledges that some myths are symbolic in nature. However, he states in his book that Atlantis was real, not a myth. If Atlantis was Plato's fantasy, why would he assert that the story of Atlantis was true but have no problem saying that a Greek myth was created to represent something else?

Did Plato believe his own story? Did he want his readers to think it was true? Maybe he was trying to throw his readers off the trail of a message hidden deep within the story. That would be some seriously ancient reverse psychology at work.

5 Atlantis Was An Empire

Most of us probably think of a lush green island surrounded by deep blue ocean waters when we picture Atlantis. While the story focuses on the island, most of us probably assumed that Atlantis was no more than this. But Plato tells us that Atlantis was actually an empire ruled from this island.

"Now in this island of Atlantis, there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia."

Tyrrhenia is another name for Etruria, now known as central Italy. This means that Atlantis would have stretched as far as modern-day Tuscany in Europe and all the way to Egypt in Africa. We wish we knew how Athens beat such a big empire? Maybe Plato had no idea either, so he gave up on writing the ending.

4 Ancient Mediterranean People May Have Known About The Americas

While it is possible that Plato made up Atlantis for philosophy's sake, there is one part of the story that would have been very hard to fabricate. In the story, the Egyptian priest tells Solon, "The island . . . was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean. [ . . . ] The surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent."

So there was a continent on the other side of the Atlantic that was so big that it seemed to surround the entire ocean. Could this mean that ancient Greeks, and possibly ancient Egyptians, knew about or had even been to the Americas?

In 1970, famous seafarer Thor Heyerdahl set sail with a crew of six in a reed ship named the Ra II. They sailed from Safi, Morocco, across the Atlantic, and to Barbados in 57 days.

The voyage proved that reed boats could survive ocean travel and that ancient people could actually cross the Atlantic in them. This feat had once been thought impossible by scholars.

However, this does not prove that Egyptians, or Greeks for that matter, made it to the Americas. But Heyerdahl proved that it was at least possible for them to do so.

3 Women Were Allowed To Serve In Prehistoric Athens

Every so often in America, the issue of women in the military comes up. Should we allow women to serve in combat positions? Should we make women sign up for the draft?

Although we seriously consider these questions today, they would have been laughable to Greeks 2,500 years ago. In fact, it was Plato's student, Aristotle, who once said, "Silence is a woman's glory."

And could you imagine what the Spartan warriors would have done if a woman had tried to join their ranks? We hope you ladies like being kicked into deep pits by Spartan kings with spray-on abs. Seriously, they would not have liked this.

However, this was not the case with the Athenians of 9500 BC, at least not in Plato's story. The text reads, "Military pursuits were then common to men and women, the men of those days in accordance with the custom of the time set up a figure and image of the goddess [Athena] in full armor, to be a testimony that all animals which associate together, male as well as female, may, if they please, practice in common the virtue which belongs to them without distinction of sex."

This could be Plato dreaming up his ideal state, but maybe the people of 9500 BC thought all the chatter from the new recruits would keep the enemy at bay. Just joking, ladies.

2 Plato May Have Wanted To Keep People Out Of The Ocean

If the Greeks did know what lay beyond the Mediterranean, would they have wanted other people to know as well? Maybe not, and this might have been why Plato wrote that no one could sail into the Atlantic.

"But afterward there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the Earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." According to Plato, this caused an impassable mud shoal outside the Straits of Gibraltar.

This may have stopped some from going too far beyond the straits. Plato implied that the Atlantic was not able to be sailed into during his lifetime when he wrote, "For in those days the Atlantic was navigable."

Was Plato trying to keep people from going into the Atlantic? Did he truly believe that a shoal of mud was blocking ocean travel? Or was the Atlantic really too muddy for boats to sail across at one point? If it was too shallow for boats, why wouldn't they just walk across?

1 The Many Times Mankind Has Been And Will Be Destroyed

The Egyptian priest had told Solon that none of his stories were "truly ancient" compared to his own. According to the priest, the reason for Solon's lack of "truly ancient" knowledge is that mankind has been destroyed time and time again.

"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."

The priest explains further, "When, on the other hand, the gods purge the Earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains."

If the only people to survive were mountain dwellers who had no knowledge of their distant past, then it is easy to see how an entire civilization's history would be lost in time. The priest believes that Egypt survived these disasters when almost no one else did because Egypt received very little, if any, rain.

Instead, they received annual floods from the Nile River which raised enough to provide for them but not enough to destroy their world. Some places are too wet, and some too dry. But Egypt is just right, baby. Just kidding, it is really, really dry.

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Atlantis

Point of origin

Atlantis, also called the Lost City of the Ancients and the City of the Ancestors, Atlantus in Ancient, is a City-ship built by the Ancients several million years ago, which has approximately the same internal space as found in Manhattan. The Ancients left the Milky Way galaxy several million years ago for the Pegasus galaxy, taking Atlantis with them and settling on a planet they named Lantea, which became their new capital.

Millions of years later, after the Lanteans, the name the Ancients came to be known by submerged the city to protect it from their enemies, the Wraith, and returned to Earth through the Stargate. Their story, over time, inspired the Tau'ri myth of Atlantis.

Ancient use

Atlantis was built 30 million years ago on Earth on the island later known as Santorini. (SG1: " Transitions")

The city was later moved to the continent of Antarctica, which at the time was situated much closer to the planet's equator. When a Plague similar to the one created by the Ori spread through the Milky Way galaxy, Atlantis was launched from its home, bound for the Pegasus galaxy. A small outpost and a few Ancient individuals were left behind on Earth (most likely because they had the Plague). Another Ancient called Amara remained on Santorini in a stasis pod when the rest of her people left Earth in Atlantis. Atlantis was relocated to the planet Lantea. Once there the Ancients created a new Stargate Network and seeded the galaxy with life, just like they had once done in the Milky Way. Soon life began to flourish where once there was none. ( SG1: " Lost City, Part 2") (SG1: " Transitions") ( SGA: " Rising")

Unknown to the council however, Dr. Weir secretly stayed behind in stasis as part of a plan devised by Janus. She rotated the city's Zero Point Modules every 3.3 thousand years so that when her expedition team or rather the second expedition team from the current timeline rediscovered Atlantis in 10 000 years's time, the shield would hopefully have enough power to continue to hold back the ocean so they wouldn't drown like they had in her timeline. Janus also programmed a fail safe mechanism into the city so that if power reached a critical level, the clamps holding the city to the ocean floor would release, and Atlantis would rise to the surface once more. Furthermore, the Stargate was programmed to accept incoming wormholes from only Earth so that the city, and Dr. Weir, would remain safe until its rediscovery by the Atlantis Expedition. ( SGA: " Before I Sleep")

Under the Expedition

When the Atlantis expedition arrived in July 2004, they started to explore the city until Dr. Rodney McKay discovered that the city's Zero Point Modules were nearly depleted and that Atlantis' shield would fail, causing a massive flood. After searching Athos for safe refuge due to the inevitable shield failure, the search team eventually brought the Athosians back after a Wraith culling occurred. When the team and refugees returned, Janus's failsafe mechanism activated and Atlantis rose to the surface just as the shield finally ran out of power and failed. With Atlantis safe from the risk of flooding, the expedition continued to settle down and set up home for both themselves and the Athosian refugees. ( SGA: " Rising")

Having learned of the existence of Earth, the Wraith sent three Hive ships to attack Atlantis. The Atlantis expedition was able to destroy the three ships, but the Wraith sent another twelve. Seeing no way of destroying them, the expedition used a cloak adapted from a Puddle Jumper, and timed a Nuclear warhead to make it appear that the city had been destroyed. The Wraith fell for the ruse, causing them to fall into Civil War. The secret of Atlantis surviving is now a top priority for the expedition members. ( SGA: " The Siege, Part 1", " The Siege, Part 2", " The Siege, Part 3")

In 2006, SG-1-except for Teal'c-arrived in Atlantis on the as a step in their war against the Ori. Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter and Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell took Dr. Rodney McKay on a mission to connect a Stargate to the Supergate back in the Milky Way, preventing its further use by the Ori. Meanwhile, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Vala Mal Doran accessed the Atlantis database in the hope of discovering the location of the Sangraal, a weapon against the Ori designed by Merlin. However, the ascended Lantean Morgan Le Fay, who masqueraded as the database's holographic interface, was stopped by the Others before she could reveal it. ( SG1: " The Pegasus Project")

In 2007, after a massive pre-emptive strike on Asuras by Earth's new battlecruiser, the , the Asurans launched a retaliatory attack on Atlantis. They sent a satellite housing a Stargate to Lantea, and after dialing in from Asuras, directed a powerful energy beam at Atlantis. Unable to evacuate by Stargate, and unable to fully dissipate the beam after submerging the city, the expedition used the Stardrive to leave Lantea. The recently discovered mobile drilling platform, located on the ocean floor gave Atlantis the power boost it needed to lift off, as the expedition only had one Zero Point Module instead of the 3 which the city was designed to use. The shield had to be lowered so that more power could be diverted to the Stardrive for the crucial first few moments of flight. As the shield was being raised after this initial phase however the Asurans beam grazed the side of the main tower, causing serious damage to the power conduits. Because of this Atlantis dropped out of hyperspace prematurely and far from the new intended homeworld, with the city's single Zero Point Module nearly depleted, having only twenty four hours of energy left. With the aid of a replacement ZPM, stolen in a daring raid on Asuras, the city eventually settled on M35-117. ( SGA: " First Strike", " Lifeline")

During the same year, the nine chevron address in the Atlantis database was discovered, and the Icarus Base was built in the Milky Way to research into dialing it. This later mounted, with the help of Eli Wallace, in the successful dialing of the days after Atlantis' return to Earth. ( SGU: " Air, Part 1")

Return to Earth

Main article: Battle of the Super-hive

Early in 2009, the Wraith Todd contacted Atlantis and told them that his underling had mutinied and managed to use several Zero Point Modules, acquired during the destruction of Asuras, to create a Super-hive. He urged the expedition to attack it before it becomes a major threat to them. The Tau'ri sent the to confront the Hive ship, but the ZPM-powered vessel proved itself an impressive opponent, crippling the Daedalus before making a sudden and inexplicable jump into hyperspace. The expedition later found out that the Hive ship was on its way to Earth.

Both the and the new Tau'ri spaceship, the , failed to destroy the vessel before it reached Earth. Sheppard interrogated Todd for the location of more ZPMs, which Major Evan Lorne and his team were able to locate; Atlantis, now with her full complement of three ZPMs, was sent to its original home in a last-ditch effort to defend it. Dr. Carson Beckett flew the city until the city's hyperdrive failed at the edge of the Milky Way. Dr. Radek Zelenka proposed activating a highly experimental and potentially dangerous drive based on the same wormhole technology as the Stargate. With it, they could potentially reach Earth in seconds.

When Atlantis arrived, it placed itself between the Super-hive and Earth in order to buy Stargate Command more time. Atlantis took the brunt of the Hive ship's assault and launched a barrage of drone weapons in retaliation. The sheer force of the Hive ship's weapons fire pushed the City-ship into Earth's atmosphere, placing severe strain on the shield. Quickly losing power, the only options were to either adjust Atlantis' course or keep firing at the enemy ship; Richard Woolsey chose to keep firing. The SGC eventually succeeded in destroying the Hive ship, but Atlantis was now forced to land on Earth, risking burning up during re-entry.

Everyone at Stargate Command waited for news with bated breath, but erupted into celebration when Atlantis lands successfully over water. The city was able to cloak just before their approach to San Francisco Bay, and the area in which they landed was placed under naval quarantine to prevent ships from passing through the cloaking field. ( SGA: " Enemy at the Gate")

After arriving on Earth, repairs to the city began. It was quickly determined that the wormhole drive couldn't be fixed but that the hyperdrive was repairable with several weeks of work. However, the IOA refused to let Atlantis off of Earth at first, pushing the President to give them full control of Atlantis as a sovereign state. With the Ancient technology and drone weapons possessed by Atlantis, anyone who had control of it could demand anything of other countries and they'd be forced to comply. If the IOA gained full control, they'd effectively become the first world government. Due to the economic crisis, the President was also unable to supply Atlantis with a full military contingent if it went back to the Pegasus Galaxy. Finally, the President reached a deal with Woolsey: if Woolsey could find a way to get the IOA to agree to let Atlantis leave, the President would allow him to have a small team of military advisors to aid in protecting Pegasus. After the IOA started to shut down the Atlantis Expedition with plans to dismantle the city, Woolsey, General Jack O'Neill and Colonel Samantha Carter began conspiring to get Atlantis back to Pegasus. As the head of Homeworld Security, O'Neill officially took command of Atlantis as it fell in American territorial waters while anyone wanting to transfer, was transferred to the George Hammond under the command of Carter. While in control of the city, O'Neill used his command of it to secretly restock the city and have repairs done to vital systems such as the hyperdrive using "half the Air Force", Doctor Bill Lee and his team and the SGC's entire maintenance section. O'Neill was able to restore Atlantis' personnel to around four hundred with about one hundred of these being new Air Force personnel sent to replace civilian contractors Woolsey didn't have time to replace. Eventually, rather than allow the American military to have full control of Atlantis, the IOA agreed to allow it to return to Pegasus at which time O'Neill restored command to Woolsey. Carter also allowed those who transferred to the George Hammond and wished to transfer back to do so. With Sheppard and Beckett alternating piloting, Atlantis took off on a nine day journey for Lantea followed close behind by the which saw the city off from a lower orbit along with the George Hammond. ( SGA: " Legacy: Homecoming")

Unknown to the city inhabitants until some time later, at least one flock of pigeons had settled in the city while it was on Earth and were trapped when the shield was raised before takeoff. As a result, unknown to everyone at the time, the pigeons were carried with Atlantis to the Pegasus Galaxy. ( SGA: " The Lost")

Return to Pegasus

Five days into the journey, Dr. Carson Beckett noticed a "wobble" while piloting the city. Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard determined it was a problem with the number four hyperdrive induction array which was damaged in the battle with the super-hive and had been giving them trouble repairing. Doctors McKay and Zelenka noticed a slight power variance, but decided to just keep an eye on it. Almost seven days into their journey, the damaged induction array malfunctioned and began drawing power from all systems to expand the hyperspace envelope. Doctor Miko Kusanagi was able to divert priority power to the shield so they didn't lose that, but Zelenka had Beckett drop them out of hyperspace as they couldn't get ahead of the power variance. While they were able to regain control of the city's systems and determine the source of the problem, the malfunction drained the ZPMs to 20% power while frying the induction array's command crystal which they could not replace. Atlantis was left stranded on the fringe of the Pegasus galaxy as a result with the at least thirteen days away and no guarantee of a habitable planet nearby. Zelenka was eventually able to locate a marginally habitable planet within five days sublight range and Atlantis headed for it. Sheppard eventually managed to land Atlantis on the planet eighteen degrees north of the equator, a habitable location, but barely at negative eight degrees centigrade when they landed. As the planet had never had a Stargate, they had to invent one for the planet while the city began reshaping itself in places to adapt to the much colder climate. The hyperdrive malfunction and landing also left them with only 9% power in the ZPMs and Sheppard landed the city at a crooked angle to its previous positions. ( SGA: " Legacy: Homecoming", " The Lost")

Following the landing, the city began experiencing problems with its short-range sensors due to them being iced over which were eventually cleared by maintenance teams once the source of the problem was determined. At the same time, Atlantis began having to deal with chunks of ice hitting the city. While studying the problem, Zelenka found the city's ice defenses, but discovered that they wouldn't deploy as the underwater sensors were damaged and thus the city was unaware it needed to deploy them. A team led by Major Evan Lorne was able to replace the damaged sensors and Atlantis' ice defenses were properly deployed. At the same time, while investigating a series of small life-signs readings in one of the Atlantis towers, Lorne and a team of Marines discovered a flock of pigeons that had made their home on Atlantis while the city was landed on Earth and had accidentally been brought along for the ride. Despite the expedition's biologists worrying about what effects introducing the pigeons to the ecosystem of the frozen planet could have, it was decided to leave the pigeons alone as it could cause more harm than good to try to get rid of them. Thus, the city gained a flock of pigeons as part of its population. ( SGA: " The Lost")

After Doctor Rodney McKay was captured and turned into a Wraith, the Wraith were able to penetrate Atlantis and steal the ZPM. They later sent incursions through the Stargate due to McKay's ability to penetrate the city's Gate shield before a metal iris like the one on the Earth Gate was installed. Eventually a partially-charged ZPM was recovered on Sateda and another one was found on a planet the Wraith had used as a safe haven thousands of years before, restoring the city to full power. Doctors Radek Zelenka and William Lynn also found a new hyperdrive induction array control crystal in the Satedan military museum, restoring Atlantis' hyperdrive to working order. ( SGA: " Allegiance", " The Furies", " Secrets")

After the rescue of McKay, Queen Death decided to launch an attack on Atlantis. Warned ahead of time by the Genii, the Expedition decided to defend the city rather than destroy it or flee into hyperspace. In the battle that followed, Atlantis itself was launched into orbit to act as both a weapons platform and a base of operations for the battle. Piloted mainly by Sheppard and commanded by Jack O'Neill, Atlantis, the George Hammond, the Pride of the Genii, and eventually a small Wraith fleet led by Guide engaged the Wraith. With precision aiming, Atlantis' drones were able to severely damage two hive ships and destroy another one. During the battle, the East Pier maneuvering engine took damage and went down and the threat of a Wraith cruiser rigged as a fire ship kept immediate repairs from being performed. After Queen Death was killed, the remaining Wraith forces surrendered and Sheppard determined that Atlantis, which had not lost significant shield power despite the constant attack the city had been under, could still land even without the East Pier engine. With more power to work with, Sheppard was able to land Atlantis closer to the equator and in a much smoother way than the city's previous landings. ( SGA: " Inheritors")

Technology

Atlantis has a great deal of advanced technology in it, ranging from the Stargate and Puddle Jumpers, to drone weapons, the Stardrive, and a shield.

Atlantis's main energy supply are Zero Point Modules, which are stored in a special room. To gain access to all of the technology and features of Atlantis, three are needed, however in cases of emergency, one can perform the most important tasks. The city also possesses several solar-powered generators, however they don't provide much energy in proportion to the massive amounts required to operate any useful technology in the city. In one extreme instance, lightning strikes from a massive storm were used to briefly power the shield in order to save it from a tsunami. A more effective method of alternatively powering Atlantis comes in the form of a geological drilling station located on the sea floor of Lantea. This station was built by the Ancients and utilized by the Atlantis expedition when they left Lantea. ( SGA: " The Eye", " First Strike")

The shield of Atlantis is a massive dome that completely encompassed the city when activated. It protects the city from anything ranging from orbital bombardment, to the weight of an entire ocean, to a tsunami, to coronal mass ejections, to falling space debris. The shield can cover the city like a skin to prevent the ocean from crashing inside when the city is submerged, or to prevent air evacuation when traveling through space. Also, the shield can be expanded when necessary to protect nearly an entire planet, or contracted to save power. After some modifications made by Dr. Rodney McKay, the shield can also be used to cloak the city. Atlantis' shield, even powered by two ZPMs, one of which was only partially charged, proved capable of taking tremendous strain during the Second Battle of Atlantis. Despite holding back the vacuum of space and Wraith attacks, the city's shield only dropped as far as sixty percent after a heavy hit, but quickly recharged back up to eighty-nine percent. By the end of the battle, despite facing five hive ships and several Wraith cruisers, the shields had only dropped to seventy percent. ( SGA: " Inheritors")

The Stardrive on Atlantis enables the city to travel to distant planets, or even galaxies, in only a few days and is incredibly powerful. It is designed to operate with 3 Zero Point Modules, but can be powered by 1 if the situation calls for it, and if other power sources are used as well, the mobile drilling platform for example. The most power is used in getting Atlantis off the surface, after this a single ZPM is able to power the city and open a hyperspace window. The hyperdrive was rendered permanently inoperable when an overload during the return to Pegasus burned out one of its induction array control crystals, but a replacement was eventually found in the Satedan military museum. ( SGA: " Legacy: Homecoming", " Allegiance")

Wormhole drive

The Wormhole drive is an experimental drive that was designed by the Ancients but was abandoned due to how dangerous and unstable it was as well as the immense power requirements. The Atlantis expedition used this drive to reach Earth in mere seconds after its hyperdrive failed at the edge of the Milky Way. However, this single trip burned out the wormhole drive and it was beyond the Tau'ri's ability to repair as it had parts they didn't even have names for, let alone know how to replace. ( SGA: " Enemy at the Gate", " Legacy: Homecoming")

Cold Protection Systems

In the event of landing on a planet with a much colder temperature than Lantea, Atlantis has systems to protect itself. Upon the sensors detecting the harsher environment, parts of the city will reshape themselves to offer better protection to its inhabitants. If enough ice is detected in the water, Atlantis will deploy a series of spikes and cables underwater to form a sort of fence protecting the more delicate components on the underside of Atlantis from chunks of ice without the need to deploy the shield. This was presumably a low-tech defense mechanism installed to protect the city while it was in Antarctica. However, these underwater defenses will not deploy if the underwater sensors are damaged, preventing Atlantis from detecting the need to deploy them.

In 2009, after landing on the frozen planet, this subroutine automatically activated and the city made noticeable changes to its walkways and parts of its structure to better shield its inhabitants from the snow and cold of the planet. However, the underwater sensors had been damaged, possibly from when the city had been moved to New Lantea years before, the Battle of the Super-hive or ice after landing and the underwater defenses did not deploy. After this part of the city's defenses were figured out by Doctor Radek Zelenka and Major Evan Lorne, a team led by Lorne replaced the damaged sensors at which point the city automatically deployed its underwater ice defenses. ( SGA: " Legacy: Homecoming", " The Lost")

Different aspects

Technologies

Connected Technology

Commanding officers

Alternate realities

Alternate timelines

In an alternate timeline, Atlantis had no failsafe mechanism and all Zero Point Modules ran simultaneously so the city sank when it was flooded. Consequently, almost the entire Atlantis expedition was killed shortly after their arrival in the Pegasus galaxy. Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Major John Sheppard and Dr. Radek Zelenka got into a time-traveling Puddle Jumper, going back ten thousand years. After being attacked by two Wraith Darts, the Jumper crashed and Weir was the only survivor. The Ancients of the time refused to let her go back to her future since it would corrupt the timeline. Luckily, the time-machine's inventor, Janus, helped her by creating a failsafe and making sure the ZPMs ran the city one at a time to save some extra power. (SGA: "Before I Sleep")

In another alternate timeline, forty-eight thousand years into the future, M35-117 was a desert planet and its star is getting hotter. Atlantis was abandoned by humans all together. Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, accidentally there, wanted to go back to his time. Guided by a hologram of Dr. Rodney McKay, he tried to get to the stasis chamber to wait for a solar flare that would not happen before seven hundred more years. However, due to the aging sun, in five hundred years the planet would become uninhabitable. Sheppard used the city's solar panels to power the shield to protect the atmosphere. (SGA: "The Last Man")

It was revealed in a post on Joseph Mallozzi's blog that, in the shelved script for Stargate: Extinction, Atlantis' computer would contain a hidden Ancient program which would cause it to self-destruct if it were to leave the Pegasus galaxy. It would not be immediate, however, and would deactivate if Atlantis were to return within the allowed time.

During Stargate Atlantis: Inheritors, Guide was shown to fear the sight of Atlantis engaged in battle with the Wraith even though he was not fighting against it. It was shown that the Wraith have a healthy fear of Atlantis in battle as they are aware they only won against the Ancients due to heavier numbers rather than better technology and tactics.

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Atlantis, also called the Lost City of the Ancients and the City of the Ancestors, Atlantus in Ancient, is a City-ship built by the Ancients several million years ago, which has approximately the same internal space as found in Manhattan.

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In the action-adventure video game series Rise of the Tomb Raider , Lara Croft finds the remnants of a once powerful civilization and searches for the location of an artifact known as the Divine Source, believed to be buried in the lost city of Kitezh. While the story line of the game is a work of fiction, historical texts suggest that Kitezh, known as 'The Invisible City', was a real place that is thought to now lie submerged within Lake Svetloyar in Russia.

Accounts of the ancient city of Kitezh are believed to trace back to the earliest days of Rus', however, the first written reference appeared in the Kitezh Chronicle, written by the Old Believers in the 1780s. (In Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against church reforms.)

According to this Chronicle, the city of Lesser Kitezh was founded by Prince Georgy, Grand Prince of Vladimir in the early 13th century, on the banks of the Volga River in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. He then discovered a beautiful site further upstream, on the shores of Lake Svetloyar where he decided to build the city of Greater Kitezh. It was established as a monastic city and considered holy by all who inhabited it.

"The Prince made the city beautiful, built it round with churches, monasteries, boyars' palaces. Then he encircled it with a trench and raised up walls with embrasures," write Barker & Grant in 'The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics'.
Lake Svetloyar in the Voskresensky District ( public domain ) Mongols under the walls of Vladimir. ( public domain ) The Invisible Town of Kitezh (1913) by Konstantin Gorbatov, 1876-1945 ( public domain ).
The Destruction of Kitezh
Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov. 1929 ( public domain )
In 1238, North Eastern Russia was invaded by Mongols under the leadership of Batu Khan, ruler from 1207 to 1255 AD and founder of the Golden Horde. After besieging the city of Vladimir and surrounding cities in Suzdal, Khan heard of the powerful city of Kitezh and was determined to capture it. The Mongols first arrived at Lesser Kitezh. The Grand Prince Georgy rode out to meet them but was eventually forced to flee back towards Greater Kitezh, whose location was still hidden from the Mongols.

Batu Khan, infuriated, ordered captives to be tortured until they gave up the location of Greater Kitezh. The captives would not give up the secret of their holy city as they believed that to do so would inflict an eternal curse on them and their descendants. However, one of the captives, Kuter'ma, unable to withstand the torture, revealed the secret paths to Lake Svetloyar.

The Chronicle's description of what happened next is vague and ambiguous. "All that is known is that the Prince managed to hide the holy vessels and liturgical accoutrements in the lake, and then died in battle. By God's will the city itself became invisible; in its place was seen water and forest," report Barker & Grant.

Legends of the Invisible City

It is not clear exactly what happened to Kitezh, but legends and folklore have surrounded its mysterious disappearance for centuries. According to one popular tale, the entire city was submerged into the lake by the will of God, to protect its treasures getting into the hands of the Mongols. This has led to Lake Svetloyar sometimes being called the "Russian Atlantis". Legend says that the army of the Golden Horde watched in dismay as the city sunk into the lake, the last thing they saw being the white glistening dome of the cathedral with a cross on top of it. The reality of the city's disappearance may not have been so remarkable. Some archaeologists have suggested that the city may have suffered a landslide causing it to disappear into the lake.

In folk tales, the city of Kitezh is said to only be visible to those who are pure in their heart and soul. Believers in the legends often report hearing church bells coming from the lake or seeing lights or even the outlines of buildings beneath the water's surface. In times past, pilgrims used to visit the lake in the hope of hearing the bells. They went there to pray and left alms for the city's dwellers. It is also said that women visited the lake during World War Two to pray for their sons.

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Russian Atlantis: Tomb Raider's Invisible City of Kitezh was a REAL Place

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Atlantis, the intriguing mystery that leaves many of us curious to learn more, and some of us skeptical and dismissive. What is it about this lost city that leaves so many of us questioning much of what we have been taught to believe? Is there some truth to the story of Atlantis that we inherently know, deep down inside that is true? Are we connected in some way to this mythical place from, perhaps our past lives?

These questions are fun to ponder, but we are unlikely to get any definite answers, at least not yet.

First, Some History

How much do you know about Atlantis? Where does this story even come from? From what we do know, the first known documentation of the story of Atlantis came from the Greek philosopher, Plato in two of his writings, Timaeus and Critias, both these books date back to about 360 BC. Within these books, Plato wrote that the Greek sage, Solon was given the story of Atlantis in Egypt by a priest and upon his arrival back to Greece, he shared the story with his relative, Dropides who passed it down to his son Critias, who then passed it down to his grandson - also names Critias, who then finally shared it with the well-known Greek philosopher, Socrates.

So, given the above information, you can see that this was a story that was told, and passed down through many generations, therefore it should not be taken as fact. Despite of this, for some reason many of us feel a strong connection to the story of Atlantis and believe it to be true.

In the report, author M. Pierre Termeir, a member of the Academy of Sciences and Director of Service of the Geologic Chart of France, gives a lecture regarding the Atlantean civilization. He makes a compelling case for further study of this lost city:
After a long period of disdainful indifference, observe how in the last few years science is returning to the study of Atlantis. How many naturalists, geologists, zoologists, or botanists are asking one another today whether Plato has not transmitted to us, with slight amplification, a page from the actual history of mankind. No affirmation is yet permissible; but it seems more and more evident that a vast region, continental or made up of great islands, has collapsed west of the Pillars of Hercules, otherwise called the Straight of Gibraltar, and that its collapse occurred in the not far distant past. In any event, the question of Atlantis is placed anew before men of science; and since I do not believe that it can ever be solved without the aid of oceanography, I have thought it natural to discuss it here, in this temple of maritime science, and to call to such a problem, long scorned but now being revived, the attention of oceanographers, as well as the attention of those who, though immersed in the tumult of cities, lend an ear to the distant murmur of the sea.
You can read this full report here, starting on page 219.

Regardless of how you feel about the lost city of Atlantis, here are 7 things you probably didn't know...

1. We Know The Supposed Location

In Plato's writings, he tells us exactly where the lost city lies, his text reads, " came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean... there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you [in reference to the ancient Greeks], called the Pillars of Heracles. " Today, these are known as the Straits of Gibraltar, the area between Spain and Africa.

In 2011, archaeologist from the University of Hartford, Richard Freund and his team found cities that were built in the image of Atlantis known as "memorial cities." They were found in the swamps of Doana National Park, which is just North of Cadiz Spain. Interestingly Cadiz sits right outside of the straights, which has Freund convinced that the real Atlantis was buried in the mud flats of the Atlantic. This matches the part of Plato's story that says, " the sea in those parts is impassable and impentrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island. "

2. The City Of Atlantis Was Named After A Demigod

Despite the fact that Atlantis is apparently in the Atlantic ocean, that's not where it got it's name. According to the texts, Poseidon - the Greek god of the sea - had five pairs of male twins with an Atlantean woman, named Cleito. Poseidon gave each of his 10 sons a different portion of the island to rule. His first-born Atlas had the entire island and the surrounding ocean named after him.

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3. We Are Missing Half The Story

While we have a complete version of Timaeus, we do not have the completed copy of Critias. In this story we have up until Zeus, head of all Greek gods. " Collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the center of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows" and that's where it ends, talk about leaving you on the edge of your seat! Who knows, maybe this next portion of the book was deliberately left out... it is not known whether Plato did this on purpose or if we just never were able to find the completed version. There is also a belief that Plato either wrote or had planned on writing a third book about Atlantis called Hermocrates.

4. If Atlantis Were Real, It Would Be At Least 11,500 Years Old

As the text goes, the story of Atlantis was handed to Solon in Egypt after he wanted to draw one of the priests to speak about their oldest of tales. In order to do this, Solon told the priests of the oldest Greek story what he could recall and spoke to them about the great flood and the first man. One priest responded, " O Solon, Solon... there is not an old man among you... in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition. "

The priest continued to say that the home city of Solon, Athens was actually much older than he thought it was.

5. Plato Believed The Story To Be True

Even though, aside from hearsay, this story doesn't really have any solid legs to stand on in terms of physical evidence, Critias claims that this story is in fact, true, " Then listen... to a tale which, though is strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon." To which Socrates responds, " Very good, and what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact? "

6. Atlantis Was An Empire

In the story told by Plato, he tells us that Atlantis was an empire, "Now in this island of Atlantis, there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as

Tyrrhenia is another name for Eturia, which is now simply known as Central Italy.

7. Atlantis Represents Just One Of Many Times Mankind Has Been & Will Be Destroyed

The Egyptian priest told Solon that none of his stories were actually "truly ancient" compared to his own. He claimed that the reason that Solon lacked true ancient knowledge is because mankind has been destroyed time and time again.

"There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the Earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains. "

There are many philosophers and spiritual teachers that believe that humankind has been wiped out before and will be wiped out again. Some believe this for a simple reason of science and or natural disasters, others believe this is sort of like a cleansing process for us to start again if we have headed on a path of destruction. I mean think about it, the way we are heading now, in regards to how we are treating our environment, there is a chance that we could wipe ourselves out yet again, unless we learn from our mistakes and change our ways.

What do you think about Atlantis? Do you recall a past life there? Do you feel a strong connection to this mythical place? Let us know in the Collective Evolution Group, and join the discussion!

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How much do you know about Atlantis? Where does this story even come from? From what we do know, the first known documentation of the story of Atlantis came from the Greek philosopher, Plato in two of his writings, Timaeus and Critias, both these books date back to about 360 BC.