The so-called highly advanced continent that they say disappeared 11,000 years ago continues to be sought after by many who still believe in it fervently. Some place the remains of Atlantis on the island of Malta, recently there is talk of Santorini in Greece, also of the Great Grift Valley, a large geological fracture that runs from southeast Africa to the Jordan Valley in Israel, the high plateau Bolivian or that the Azores and the Canary Islands could be remnants of it. Despite the fact that legend has it that this island, which one day turned out to be the most powerful empire in the world, disappeared in the surprising course of a day and a night, many have still not been able to forget it. A flood and an earthquake were not enough to end civilization (since it is still alive for those who believe in it). Only geology and archeology can turn this myth into history.
This legend draws so much attention that many have even gone looking for it by analyzing the depths of the sea. But where exactly can we locate it? The only mention that has been found in Antiquity of Atlantis, on which all later legends are based, is found in the texts of Plato Timeo' and 'Critias . In these dialogues from the 4th century B.C. the war between pre-Hellenic Athens and the Atlantean civilization is described. Atlantis is described as an island located beyond the Pillars of Hercules (geographical limit located at the Strait of Gibraltar and symbolizing the end of the known world) and “larger than Libya and Asia Minor together ”. Its power was such that it came to dominate all of Europe and North Africa until it was defeated by the Athenian armies. After this, a colossal cataclysm caused it to disappear “in a single day and one terrible night ”. What we do know is the way the philosopher described this place:as an island surrounded by circles of land and water, separated by channels through which ships sailed.
Our desire to know the origins of humanity together with the irremediable curiosity provoked by myths lead Atlantis to not disappear from the collective imagination. The immortality of Atlantis is noted in books, such as American lawyer and politician Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis:the antediluvian world (1882); National Geographic documentaries (located Atlantis in the Coto de Doñana in Huelva) or the recent Atlántida , where the geologist Martin Pepper tries to prove that it did exist; movies like Aquaman; table games based on the legend and even online casino games like Queen of Atlantis .
And what were the Atlanteans like?
They say that the Atlanteans, in addition to being handsome and with bodies that would leave the Vitruvian Man speechless, They were very advanced beings spiritually and technologically. Some say that they were a superior race, the origin of the rest of the later cultures and civilizations, and others that they were the "missing link" between the aliens and the "vulgar" humans, and that their disappearance would have led us back to square one. (primitive peoples). Some consider that the Egyptians could not have built the pyramids without superior knowledge and that it was probably those inhabitants of Atlantis who were saved who transmitted it to them. But not only in Egypt would they have provided the necessary technology, they are also involved in other spectacular constructions such as the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia or the heads of Easter Island. And already put, even in the American continent, where they helped build the temples that we find in Mexico.
All this is an assumption, since there is no evidence to corroborate the existence of Atlantis. So far there are various groups of beliefs:those who believe that Atlantis existed and limit themselves to searching for it, those who believe that some of its inhabitants were saved, leaving their mark with their superior knowledge on civilizations in the rest of the world, and a third group who refuses to believe this myth.
My conclusion is that Plato knew what to do to be remembered:invent the alarm clock - we all remember his mother when we woke up - and create the myth of Atlantis. Did it exist or did it not exist?