The City of Atlantis

Many popular books and films have given us a glimpse into the supposed world of Atlantis, but is there any fact hidden amongst the fiction? The city of Atlantis originated with a story created by Plato, which told of prehistoric Athenians battling it out against the inhabitants of Atlantis, which ended in the city’s defeat and disappearance to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

As with most stories, many have tried to find truth in it, with some speculations that the story of Atlantis has eerie links with real-life events in Greek history. One in particular involving the Minoan civilization living in Crete between 2700 and 1420 BC. Archaeologists discovered that after suffering immeasurable damage due to a volcano eruption in Greece, the Minoan people were possibly forced to join with the mainland people. A song of…water and lava, rather than ice and fire, then?