Atlantis: We Will Never Know

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because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of
Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans
to avoid enslavement. (4)
The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on
whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been
placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden,
Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been hypothesized;
mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the barren wasteland of
Antarctica have been mentioned in theories. (5)
While some of these theories are compatible with Plato's works and are
within relative reason, numerous crackpot theories have been developed using the
lost continent as a basis. One of these theories, posted on the computer
internet where it has access to over fifteen million people, talks in twenty-one
pages of pre-historical lands with names like Oz and Luxor. These world ...

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