There are many purported “lost cities” throughout time, but none are more famous than Atlantis. First described by the Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis served as an allegorical representation ...

Where did the idea that the Atlanteans migrated from Atlantis to Europe come from, and is there any factual basis to this ...

In 1530, an Italian physician named Girolamo Fracastoro wrote an epic poem about… syphilis! In this poem, he suggested that indigenous peoples in the Americas were descendants of the people who ...

This two-part study (concluding next Monday) sets out not to expound the latest crackpot theory, but to survey the history of belief in the Atlantis myth. Why is it that, from the time of the ...