The Atlantis Story: Plato’s Account of a Lost Civilization
The Origins of Atlantis The story of the lost island of Atlantis comes from two Socratic dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BCE by the Greek philosopher Plato. These dialogues formed a festival speech to be told on the Panathenaea, honoring the goddess Athena. Plato describes a conversation between Socrates, Timaeus of Locri, Hermocrates […]
The Piri Reis Map Mysteries
The Piri Reis Mysteries: Map of Lost Knowledge? The Piri Reis Map, drawn in 1513 by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Ahmet Muhiddin Piri (Piri Reis), is one of history’s most intriguing cartographic relics. What survives today is only a fragment of a much larger map that originally depicted the known world. The existing portion shows […]
