The puzzle of Atlantis has captured the imaginations of devotees of esoterica and perplexed researchers for a score of centuries. Thanks to the Ethersphere, web scholars are able to choose from a massive list of literature treating different aspects of the enigma of Atlantis, both non-fiction and best science fiction & fantasy novels.

There are more ideas concerning what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located and beneath which sea the remains can be recovered than practically any other of the many stories involving prehistoric superior cultures. Indeed, the topic of a Utopian culture which preceded ours has endured and resurged as we face a New Age. Theories suggesting the site of the "Lost Continent" range from Indonesia to the Western Atlantic, though, naturally the likeliest options which are European islands, most notably the Azores and Cyprus.

Prolific author Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a a huge expanse, about the scale of Australia. According to the seer’s astounding version, the Atlanteans were gifted with supernatural telepathic talents and technologies, and seeded colonies to the strangely reminiscent pyramid building peoples of the early Mesopotamians and the pre-Columbian Americans. The subject is often related with Mayan Long Count calendar prophecy of Earth changes in 2012.

Plato, student of Socrates, first began to write of a powerful race of builders, called Atlantis, during the height of his own Athenian civilization. Plato claimed the lost Island lay near the Straits of Gibraltar and met a fateful end more than ten millennia prior. We may never know the real history, however, it appears difficult to dispute: our species has reached great levels of sophistication in the distant past and the cycle of expansion and decimation, perhaps in a recurring pattern, in the forgotten recesses of what we habitually regard as the first gasp of modern man.

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