I just don't get the efforts being made to place the lost continent of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, specifically Santorini. Sure, Santorini blew up in a very destructive manner, but it was a volcano, that's what they do. Atlantis apparently sunk completely beneath the waves in a day and a night, and Santorini is still there in a large part. So, that doesn't really match up with Plato's account, especially the part which places Atlantis to the West of the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), in the great Western ocean. That and the fact that the natives of South America also retained similar tales about Aztlan, a lost continent in the Atlantic. Too much of a coincidence if you ask me.
Taken at face value, as Heinrich Schliemann did with Troy, and Arthur Evans did with Knossos, there is no real reason why we should disbelieve the tales that have been handed down to us from ancient times. Once again, I'm talking about things that we find hard to believe can be true, and so are generally assumed to be myths and legend. How many myths must be proved to be true before academics begin to realise that our ancient forebears weren't liars and storytellers like modern-day archaeolgists, anthropologists, geologists, etc perpetuating their own myths of pre-histroy to suit an ulterior agenda.
The fact is ruins have been found in the mid-atlantic (near the Azores), and at great depths, signifying that they were not merely submerged by rising sea-levels, but due to some geological cataclysm which must have sent them plunging into the depths. Hang on, isn't that what Plato reported that the Egyptians had told his Gt Grandfather Solon?
There have been many discoveries of ancient ruins, off the coasts of countries facing on to the Atlantic sea-board, on both sides of the Atlantic, but I suspect that these were simply the victims of rising sea-levels at the end of the last Ice-Age. The ruins lying on the sea-bed near the Azores testify to the possibility that Atlantis was where we have been told it was all along, and in light of the discoveries of Troy and Knossos, why should we believe otherwise?
