“One grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the Island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down.”For unknown reasons, Plato never completed Critias. Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus.
-Plato, Timaeus
The search for Atlantis is still on and one of the primary things to worry about is, where to start the search because the Plato's dialogues hasn't mentioned any location of Atlantis. Some scientists think that the word Atlantis has close resemblance with Atlantic Ocean which suggests that Atlantis may be some where in the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore it is the first place to search for Atlantis still many other argue about this hypothesis and have their own proposed sites in the vast oceans of this world.
So far, there hasn't been any scientific evidences related to the existence of Atlantis. There are some researches, however until now it is still not clear whether any such thing as Atlantis ever existed or was is just an imaginary society of Plato.
Sources:
http://hassam.hubpages.com/hub/The-Lost-Atlantis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/08/30/man-knowledge-lost-cities-every-man-should-know/
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