Articles for tag: Atlantis myth, Sunken City, underwater ruins, Yonaguni Monument

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The Sunken City of Yonaguni: Japan’s Atlantis or a Natural Wonder?

Suhail Ahmed

  Off Japan’s far southwest, where hammerhead sharks glide along cobalt drop-offs, a stepped stone massif rises from the seafloor and refuses to yield its secret. Divers call it the Yonaguni Monument; skeptics call it textbook geology; believers whisper about a drowned city. Since a local diver first spotted its razor-edged terraces in 1986, the ...

The Problem with Plato's Timeline

Why Archaeologists Are Rethinking the Story of Atlantis

Jan Otte

The legendary tale of Atlantis has captured human imagination for over two millennia, sparking countless expeditions, debates, and theories about its possible existence. But today’s archaeologists are approaching this ancient mystery in entirely new ways. Rather than dismissing it as pure myth or desperately searching for a sunken city, they’re examining how real discoveries of ...