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The Rest Is History

314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

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4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Majestic palaces, untold riches, and indeterminable power... the story of Atlantis is a tale as old as time. But is there really any truth behind the ancient tome, or was Plato simply trying his hand at political satire? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the origins of the legend of Atlantis. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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by Diet Coke.

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Canvas Magic Right turns dismal diction into spell binding sentences.

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Canva's magic right turns dull drafts into salient soliloquies.

1:05.6

Dull words designed convincing, eloquent, compelling, poetic with Canva AI tools. Canva Design Against Doll. Near the end of the last ice age, 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years

1:35.8

earlier broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global

1:41.3

cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs

1:45.6

and causing the global deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.

1:51.0

A second series of impacts equally devastating causing further

1:56.1

cataclysmic flooding occurred 11,600 years ago the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and

2:06.0

submergence of Atlantis. The evidence shows beyond reasonable doubt that an

2:12.4

advanced civilization that flourished

2:14.8

during the Ice Age was destroyed in these global cataclisms.

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