Plato claimed Atlantis was destroyed in a single day and night — 9,000 years before his time. Modern geology now confirms a global catastrophe around 9600 BC: the Younger Dryas event. Massive impacts.

The Atlantis story originates in Plato’s dialogues as a moral tale about hubris and decline, not an archaeological report.

I see Atlantis is back in the news, as it ever will be, from time to time. Atlantis is bound to pop up again on irregular occasions in one place or the other. Cuba, this time. I had figured that all ...