The document summarizes 10 theories about the lost city of Atlantis. The theories propose that Atlantis may have been located in places like the Bahamas, Southeast Asia such as Indonesia, the mid-Atlantic region, Antarctica, or that it referred to the ancient continents of Lemuria or Mu. Other theories suggest Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the Black Sea flood, a fictional story by Plato, or that Plato was referring to the ancient Minoan civilization and volcanic eruption on the island of Thera. Most scientists dismiss the existence of Atlantis and believe Plato's account was entirely fictional.

1. Top Ten Theories about the Lost City of
Atlantis
• The story about Atlantis is very interesting.
• Atlantis is a legendary “lost” island subcontinent often
idealized as an advanced, utopian society holding
wisdom that could bring world peace.
• The idea of a lost, but highly advanced civilization has
captured the interest of people for centuries. Perhaps
the most compelling of these tales is the story of
Atlantis. The story appears again and again in books,
television shows and movies. Where did the story
originate and is any of it true?
• Plato who was the first to wrote about mythological
continent Atlantis.

2. 1.Atlantis was in the Bahamas, Bermuda,
the Azores, Canary Islands, etc.

3. • The thought that Plato was alluding to a spot in the Atlantic does
not pass on effectively, thus almost any island or area mass lying
anyplace between east shore of the Americas and Europe/Africa
has been proposed as the region for Plato's fabulous landmass.
Sadly, none of these islands are especially great in extension or size,
nor do any of them recommend they once kept up anything
approaching a progressed human advancement in the far off past
(or even today, so far as that is concerned). The Bahamas, in view of
the disclosure off the shoreline of Bimini Island in 1968 of what has
all the earmarks of being a man-made harbor divider (by and large
rejected by researchers as a creation of shoreline rock containing
counterfeit looking yet simply regular break lines suggestive of a
cleared "street") and because of enthusiasm toward the
problematic however mainstream "Bermuda Triangle" legend,
remains the chances on most loved among numerous Atlantis buffs.

4. 2.Atlantis was in Southeast Asia

5. • Dr Danny who is a veteran Indonesian
geologist wrote in his book: "All these
Mediterranean candidates, including Crete-
Minoan, Cyprus and others, do not fit the
description of the location [of Atlantis] in
• Plato's dialogue.
• Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Bandung
Institute of Technology said the description
of the island by ancient Greek philosopher
Plato perfectly fits Indonesia when
"Sundaland" existed.

6. 3. Atlantis was a continent that
existed in the mid-Atlantic

7. • A very plausible solution to the Atlantis
mystery is that Plato’s Atlantic Island was
located in the Mid-Atlantic.
• Plato though that Poseidon god of the sea
divided the land into ten sections .but the
floods and the earthquakes are the most
popular theories of Atlantis destruction.

8. 4. Atlantis was referring to a more
Antarctica

9. • Charles Hapgood resurrected the pin Riis map
.which copied from older maps by Turkish
admiral which showed Antarctica as an Ice
free -continent since there was a concept that
Atlantis may have been destroyed in a people
shift and also sank beneath the ocean in a day
and night .
•

10. 5. Atlantis was a reference to an
ancient continent called Lemuria

11. • Lemuria is an island civilization supposedly
existed in the Indian Ocean.

12. 6. Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the
Black Sea flood

13. • Another theory that has been recently
postulated that, Atlantis was lost in the black
sea during the flooding of it around 5,600 BCE.

14. 7. Atlantis was fictional but the accounts of a
world-wide Deluge were true

15. • The story of Atlantis, while itself a sign of Plato’s
rich creative energy.
• It could be some inaccessible of the last Ice age.
• When worldwide sea levels climbed by many
feet in simply a couple of hundreds of years.
• Submerging whole land masses simultaneously
decorated land masses each one retelling.

16. 8. Atlantis was actually the mythological land of Mu

17. • Mu is a hypothetical continent that existed in
the Atlantic Ocean.
• It was thought to have disappeared at the
dawn of human history.
• Scientists dismiss the concept of Mu and other
like Atlantis.

18. 9. Plato was referring to the ancient Minoans and the explosion
of the volcanic island of Thera

19. • The nearby volcanic island of Thera (known
today as Santorini) erupted in 1600 BCE,
producing tsunamis large enough to obliterate
a number of Minoan coastal cities and do
considerable damage around the entire
Mediterranean basin.

20. 10. Atlantis are fictional

21. • Plato’s account of a fabulously city was mainly
fictional story designed to both entertain and
enlighten his readers.
• He invented Atlantis as his vision of ideal
civilization.
• No written records of Atlantis exist outside of
Plato’s dialogue.
• Furthermore no trace of such sunken
civilization has ever been found.

22. • Presented by:
• 1.Hisham Mohamed farag
ID:1141884

23. • Supervisor:
• Dr wegdan lotfy