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.

00:07:22 And finally

00:09:58 Now of course, that in itself doesn't prove anything.

00:12:36 What we found is that the deposit extends on the sea floor

00:15:20 Beneath more than 100 feet of metres of pumice and ash was a lost world

00:18:26 which is much more monumental

00:20:51 You cannot understand the Therans unless you understand their relationship to the sea.

00:23:27 to create an architectural masterpiece in town planning.

00:25:36 So you are not just looking at them as great achievers in technology

00:28:07 this island was the political and religious centre

00:30:52 Perhaps this is another key to it making great strides.

00:33:18 Now this suggests to me that what Plato is writing about

00:35:55 What it's telling us is there's a thin layer here

00:38:00 and had tried to protect it with the hope of the return.

00:40:43 Pumice is the only rock that floats.

00:43:07 'Archaeologist Sandy MacGillivray and tsunami expert Costas Synolakis

00:44:59 And so what we're seeing here, the green is the wave as we think of it, so the tall crest of the wave

00:48:06 It's almost as if Minoan Crete is a giant jigsaw puzzle that is slowly being pieced back together again.

00:50:48 A few paces out here there was another body.

00:53:16 their island was swallowed by the sea.

00:55:47 those three components, when you put them together, to me it is a certainty that Gilgamesh

00:58:19 and the real people of the Bronze Age