I want to continue here with my series of reflections on the links between mathematics and other aspects of our culture. We have spoken, in the past, of the connections between mathematics and ...

From King Tut’s tomb to the Dead Sea Scrolls, there’s seemingly nothing archaeologists can’t unearth. So why haven’t they found Atlantis yet? It’s a question regularly fielded by real-life ...

The Lost Atlantis so lavishly described by Plato has been “found” all over the world—from Ceylon to Sweden. Last week a German clergyman was writing a report on how he had found it again—this time in ...

It was Plato, around 360 B. C., who first described an ancient, exotic island kingdom catastrophically buried beneath the sea when its once-virtuous people angered the gods with their pronounced tilt ...

Fresh footage of sprawling stone formations off Spain’s southern coast has revived one of humanity’s most persistent legends, suggesting that a vast complex of underwater ruins could match Plato’s ...

Atlantis is an island nation mentioned in two of the Greek philosopher Plato’s most famous dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In them, he describes the ancient civilization as peaceful and vastly wealthy ...