According to Plato, Atlantis was a rich and advanced island nation that was located in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 12,000 years ...

Ancient texts speak of a strange and valuable metal known as orichalcum. The mystical material was often dismissed as a ...

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 ...

Many outside of Greece believe that Mount Olympus -- like Atlantis -- is a myth that exists only in Greek mythology.

Was the Eye of the Sahara the real Atlantis, as many theorist claim? What does the evidence really reveal about this popular theory?

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 ...

According to Plato's dialogues the Critias and the Timaeus, Solon was also responsible for bringing the Atlantis myth to Greece. He is said to have discovered it while travelling in Egypt.