ShortHand: ATLANTIS

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The mythical lost island of Atlantis has puzzled historians for millennia, with its powerful technology, advanced society, and crystal powered weapons of mass destruction. Or has it?

While the lost kingdom was first mentioned by none other than Plato several millennia ago, its existence as a real tangible place has only been taken remotely seriously for the last couple of hundred years. So what turned the tide and led to an allegory for the importance of a well run government turning into a full blown aquatic conspiracy?

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atlantis-legendary-island

BBC Timewatch | Atlantis: The Evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyknDxKpIYU&ab_channel=HistoryDoc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6568053.stm

Odyssey | Atlantis: Hunt for the Ancient Sunken Metropolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp4TDeTf754&ab_channel=Odyssey-AncientHistoryDocumentaries

toldinstone | The Story of Atlantis, Part I What Plato Said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6ZrmvGvaY

toldinstone | The Story of Atlantis, Part II Searching for Atlantis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AzTPIKlgvc

toldinstone | The Story of Atlantis, Part III The Minoan Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8s8UoGNNc

https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/classical-literature-mythology-and-folklore/folklore-and-mythology/atlantis#:~:text=Atlanteans%20understood%20universal%20forces%20and,the%20technology%20of%20the%20land.

https://www.geographicus.com/P/ctgy&Category_Code=kircher

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-1883-krakatau-eruption-a-year-of-blue-moons.html#:~:text=The%20Krakatau%20eruption%20had%20an,C%20for%20months%20to%20come.

HISTORY | The UnXplained: Evidence of Atlantis Found in a Desert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR1o0rQf0BU&ab_channel=HISTORY

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AMRl67uqD9wC&pg=PA1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://bigthink.com/the-present/why-the-nazis-were-obsessed-with-finding-the-lost-city-of-atlantis/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tsunami-atlantis-idUSTRE72B2JR20110312/