Atlantis at last?

last updated 8 January 2015

Mediterranean floor

An American researcher claims to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea, between Cyprus and Syria. Robert Sarmast made sonar scans of the seabed that he says reveal man-made walls that exactly match Plato’s description of the pre-Hellenic acropolis of Atlantis. “If this is not indeed the Atlantis acropolis,” says Sarmast, “then this is the world’s greatest coincidence.” It will be some time before his discovery can be verified: The walls he detected—one of them nearly 2 miles long—are buried under more than 4,000 feet of sediment. The existence of Atlantis has never been proved, but Greek legend—as recorded by Plato—held that it was an island where the perfect civilization flourished, until it was destroyed by an earthquake.