The Atlantis Enigma

One of the great mysteries and enigmas of our time is Atlantis. Despite the passage of thousands of years, nobody has been able to solve the riddle of Atlantis.

Plato was the person who started all of the difficulty with regard to Atlantis. In his Timaeus and Critias stories, he spoke of Atlantis in glowing terms. He identified this as an island in the Atlantic Ocean. Basically, we mean huge. Plato, it was claimed the size of North Africa! The people of Atlantis allegedly controlled much of the Mediterranean, but were defeated by the ancestors of the Greeks. The two companies were then destroyed as "a great flood."

With just these bits of information, we can assume Plato has taken some liberties in his writing. Then a strange thing happened. Archaeologists have discovered Egyptian records detailing Atlantis, its ruling family and a utopian vision of the kind of culture. There are many contradictions between the time the two stories, but the race to discover Atlantis has been since. We do, after all, like a good puzzle.

So, where is Atlantis? There is the problem. The descriptions are so vague that Atlantis could be just about anywhere. Heck, you could be sitting above the main town in what you read. At one time or another, the popular theory has suggested Atlantis is Antarctica, Turkey, North America, South America, Santorini, Crete, Indonesia and pure figment of the imagination of someone. After years of research, the theory of imagination seems the most credible.

Although theorists rage and back, there was an event in the life of Plato, which might have given rise to the base of the Atlantis story. A huge earthquake struck the city of Helike. Located on the shores of the Bay of Corinth, he literally sank into the sea Both then and now, you can take a boat on the city and despise the ruins of Helike. That does Helike the lost civilization of Atlantis? It is unlikely since Helike was a basic Greek city. Yet, it certainly would have formed the basis of the Atlantis story.