The Lost City of Atlantis: Plato’s Story and the Search for a Sunken World
About 4 min readPlato described a great island empire that sank beneath the waves — and in 2,400 years, no one has found a trace of it beyond his two dialogues. Santorini, the Sahara, the Azores and Antarctica have all been proposed; every candidate has failed. Why does a story with a single source still launch expeditions?