Around 355 B.C., about 2400 years ago, the philosopher Plato wrote about the mysterious land of Atlantis in his stories Timaeus and Critias. What made Atlantis so mysterious? Well, previous to Plato’s writings there was no known existence of the lost land. Therefore, with Plato bringing into light the idea of Atlantis, questions about the stories began to emerge throughout the years. Among these question came two in particular; did it even exist, and if it did, what happened to it? Before going into these questions, let’s first look at the details that Plato used to describe this country.
In Timaeus, Plato wrote about how he believed Atlantis appeared, everything from its size to its resources. The way it was written it was said to be the size
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Scientists agreed that Plato’s numbers may have been wrong and when they divided them down by ten it was found that the time would put Atlantis’s destruction around 900 B.C., rather than 9000 B.C. Therefore, around the same time as the Minoan’s downfall. It also made Atlantis’s believed land size closer to that of Crete. Other similarities that were seen between the two societies included the luxurious buildings, the time spent competing in sports, the advanced tools and designs, and the natural disasters that led to the destruction and disappearance of the societies. Although this is a popular theory many don’t agree with the idea that the Minoans were the Atlanteans. In fact many different claims have been made putting Atlantis all over the world and in all continents. Some people believe that Atlantis never existed; it was simply a figment of imagination. Furthermore, others think that it was merely written as a cautionary tale of the destruction that could happen if good people turn to immorality. There are other ideas, but the point is that there are many different beliefs about the lost empire, and any one of them could be true. We may never know, and with that I have come to the end of my