The lost city - continent of atlantis.
The empire returns?

(Note: This is the introduction. Most chapters are conversations.)

       Stories of Atlantis.  Why do they exist and where do they come from?  Why are they so persistent?  And why is the subject of Atlantis so fascinating to so many people?  Many scholars now cite archeological evidence of ancient civilizations that were destroyed by a great catastrophe, which they believe could be the source of the stories. But that raises even more intriguing questions, if Atlantis was once a great civilization, who were the people of Atlantis, and what were they like?

       Within the recorded history of many cultures, there are references to the great island continent of Atlantis, and its highly sophisticated civilization.  Some people still dismiss this as myth.  However, many of these cultures had no known contact or knowledge of each other’s civilizations, so why would such diverse ancient peoples, such as the Maya, the Egyptians, the Hopis, or the Greeks, have the same legends?  

       Plato, a highly respected Greek philosopher and teacher, gives a detailed, non-fiction account of Atlantis.  Due to that and other factors, many scientists no longer argue about the existence of Atlantis - just the whereabouts.  Even marine scientist and explorer, Jacques Cousteau, searched for underwater archeological evidence of Atlantis.  It ended with his son believing Atlantis was probably in the Caribbean or Atlantic, and Jacques believing it was in the Mediterranean.  Even though they both found what they believed to be evidence of an ancient sunken civilization, neither had definitive proof that they’d discovered the remains of Atlantis.  However, little absolute archeological proof is likely to even remain from any civilization destroyed by a cataclysmic disaster, let alone tens of thousands of years ago, let alone one sunken beneath the sea in a totally unknown area. Even the great “Titanic” was only recently found, and only after extensive searches, even though scientists knew approximately where it sank. Furthermore, it went down only decades ago, and it sunk from “merely” hitting an iceberg, whereas Atlantis allegedly sunk long, long ago, in an unknown location, and was totally devastated by unimaginable natural catastrophe.  A disaster so great, that it may have had a “ripple” effect around the world, which brings us to the legends of “the great flood”.   

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