What would happen if Atlantis was discovered today?

It would be no big deal, since the real Atlantis did not look like Plato described it literally. Plato's description is clearly a distorted historical tradition, so Atlantis looked like Crete or Troy or the like, and what did the discovery of Troy or the Minoan Civilization change? Well, it changed something, but it was no revolution. read more

As propaganda in Plato's morality tale, the Atlantis legend is more about the city's heroic rival Athens than a sunken civilization; if Atlantis really existed today and was found intact and inhabited, its residents would probably try to kill and enslave us all. read more