Hey there, night crew. Tonight we're hunting for a civilisation that supposedly vanished in a

single day, taking with it advanced technology, impossible architecture, and enough mystery to keep

people arguing for over 2,000 years. Atlantis. The lost empire that might have never existed,

or might be sitting right under our noses at the bottom of the ocean. Either way, we're going

deep. Before we dive in, smash that like button if you're ready for this rabbit hole and drop a comment,

Where in the world are you watching from right now? I want to know who's joining me on this hunt for

history's most famous ghost story. Dim those lights, get comfortable, and let's go searching for a city that

the gods themselves supposedly drowned. Ready? Let's begin. So here's where it all starts,

and naturally it begins with a Greek politician having what we might call a very educational

vacation. The year is somewhere around 590 BCE, and a man named Solon, one of Athens' founding

fathers, lawmaker extraordinaire and general political heavyweight, decides he needs a break

from running a city-state. Not exactly a weekend in the Hamptons, though. Instead, he packs up

and heads to Egypt, because apparently when ancient Greek intellectuals

needed to unwind, they went to the oldest, most mysterious civilization they could find,

and started asking uncomfortable questions about how little they actually knew.

Egypt at this time wasn't just old.

It was incomprehensibly ancient even to the ancient Greeks. We're talking about a civilization that had already been building pyramids for over 2,000 years before Solon showed up asking questions.

To put that in perspective, Solon visiting Egypt would be like us today visiting a civilization that started in the year zero CE

and finding out they'd been continuously running the same government,

speaking variations of the same language, and, worshipping the same gods that entire time.

The Egyptians had been Egyptian longer than we've had Christianity, which gives you some sense

of just how much accumulated knowledge and tradition these folks were sitting on.

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