hen it became clear that it wasn't Professor Thelete; he got glances from Dr. Schro

manity looked at their past. After about dozen proposals were given for the night, it was finall

pect again to be allowed to make a proposal again. He was naturally a little nervous, but he ha

Thelete." The Professor made his way onto the stage and set up his presentation. No one truly

tlantis. The real Atlantis. The location discussed below is likely a place you've ne

aggeration, for purposes of matching those characteristics with a very specific place that exists today. I compare Plato's points about Atlanti

ns ahead of Plato). Whatever Solon wrote was kept in the family and ultimately came to Plato's attention. Apparently, Plato's source from Solon wa

hieroglyphics for Solon in the temple. That temple in the Nile Delta was well known at the time but since has ceased to exist.

was not some kind of hocus-pocus kind of deal, it was based on a verifiable source. The temple inscri

u (inscribed after Plato during the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 B.C.) appears to corroborate Solon and Plato without actually using the word "Atla

siting the Temple of Neith in the city of Sais, the same place that Plato visited. However, Herodotus visited the temple in 450 B.C., fif

about ten initial Atlantean emperors which matches independent Egyptian history about the ten Auritean rulers, called Aleteans by the Phoenicians). Howeve

er, other sources corroborate what Plato says. I bring this up as another layer of proof that Atlantis was an actual location n

Why exactly everyone wants to find Atlantis is a bit unclear at times, but Atlantis has gained a legendary mystique. Fantastic tales of death rays and advanced

he scientific community. That is what happened when Heinrich Schliemann - a rich German dilettante determined to find ancient Troy - actually discovered it (to

very single candidate ultimately collapses for one reason or another. For instance, several islands within the Mediterranean ha

as beyond what we now know as Gibraltar. The Greeks knew all about the Mediterranean islands and Plato would have just pointed to o

ly all of Plato's requirements. It is in the right location, it is the righ