In the dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called

Atlantis. Atlantis was a land where the citizens were half gods and half men,

yet it was destroyed in a cataclysmic event.

Ever since then people have been speculating about where Atlantis was

and who the Atlantis were.

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and the various theories of where it was or if it even

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the amazing thing about the story of Atlantis is how much attention it has been given over the centuries

versus how little evidence there ever was for it to begin with. The only mentions we have of something called Atlantis come from the writings of Plato.

That's it.

There are no relics, inscriptions, or even mentions from other people in history.

Moreover, it isn't even given a central place in the works of Plato.

Atlantis appears in two of Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias.

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