For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock ...

The Atlantis story originates in Plato’s dialogues as a moral tale about hubris and decline, not an archaeological report.

Stavros Papamarinopoulos could’ve been a character in a John le Carré novel. He had arranged for us to meet at an empty suite of offices belonging to his economist friend in the unfashionable port ...

Now, an archaeologist believes he has found Atlantis just two miles off the coast of Cadiz, Spain. While many scholars dismiss Atlantis as pure myth, Michael Donnellan said the lost city is real and ...

Of all the many disappointments of 1977, the ITV series Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest. The title suggested a programme that would have something to do with the lost underwater ...

Atlantis is the fictional island first described by Greek writer Plato in his texts Timaeus and Critias, said to be an antagonist naval power that besieged "Ancient Athens”. In the story, Athens ...

Humans have been searching for Atlantis for thousands of years. Now one archaeologist believes the long-lost city may be hiding along the coast of southern Spain. Michael Donnellan has been ...

This fall, Britain will discover Atlantis. The makers of the television show Merlin are turning the age-old tale of a submerged city into a series (it will be called, unsurprisingly, Atlantis), which ...