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Atlantis Uncovered
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Curiosity Videos: Atlantis Uncovered
Since Plato's first dramatic account around 360 BC of an island sinking into the ocean, philosophers, historians and writers have debated whether the disappearance of Atlantis was real or a legend. Now, new evidence suggests that Atlantis is more than a myth and the island, so long shrouded in mystery, may have left clues to its destruction.
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