Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.

The enormous tsunami thought to have destroyed the legendary lost city of Atlantis could have been caused by lava, a new theory suggests. Experts believe material from the volcanic eruption on ...

For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock samples from the Azores Plateau — now 3,000 feet underwater — show evidence of ...

Scientists are convinced that Atlantis is submerged just north of Cadiz They used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site The team then surveyed it with a combination of ...

On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave. The entire city and all its inhabitants were lost beneath the sea. What has ...

Ever heard of the city of Helike? For a long time it was as lost (and considered as mythical) as the city of Atlantis. Then one day someone found a coin from Helike, and the search was on. Take a look ...

For more than 2,000 years, the lost city of Atlantis has fascinated treasure hunters and explorers. But despite countless theories and decades of searching, the lost city has remained stubbornly lost.

STUNNING underwater pictures appear to reveal the real-life Atlantis – with eerie ancient mosaics and moss-coated statues lying on the sea bed. Immersed in the sea due to the Earth’s volcanic activity ...

NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): On one terrible night 2,500 years ago the entire Greek city of Helike and all of its people were swept beneath the sea. The catastrophe inspired one of the greatest stories of ...