Atlantis: The Evidence

00:00:03 Athens, Greece.

00:02:41 "Listen, then, to a tale which is though strange, but wholly true

00:05:15 and to be moved by it and to learn from it.

00:07:23 these wizards from outer space have gone into archaeological artefacts.

00:10:01 I mean, there could be loads of locations all round the world that match this description.

00:12:44 So it's very, very widespread.

00:15:28 It was heralded as the Pompeii of the Aegean.

00:18:47 One of the things you notice immediately about the wall paintings

00:21:04 the people who lived here became masters of those networks of trade and communication.

00:23:48 And so it's always seemed pointless to match lock stock and barrel

00:25:52 These people are building two, three-storey buildings on an earthquake sensitive region.

00:28:38 It teemed with workshops, storage areas, and sumptuous wall paintings.

00:31:25 ..the bull.

00:33:54 amazing tales of a long lost civilisation

00:36:18 Cracks in the ground.

00:38:46 You would be buried beneath the pumice.

00:41:20 That just makes such sense. So Plato's talking about mud

00:43:37 But it must have floated here.

00:45:32 This is a picture from Sri Lanka.

00:48:51 That's a conch shell

00:51:37 Why did this happen? How can we appease these natural forces so that perhaps it won't happen again?

00:54:12 But the historian in me needs to see the evidence in black and white.

00:56:28 which is that when you have such a big thing as this cataclysm

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