This article is about the location from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. For other uses, see Atlantis. Atlantis is the titular location of Disney's 2001 animated feature film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. It was a powerful empire established thousands of years ag
civilisation, the Minoan, was flourishing.The giant waves destroyed its mighty navy then travelled inland, killing crops, flooding royal palaces, including Knossos, and triggering the collapse of the empire.In 1967, archaeologists on Santorini unearthed a city at the foot of the volcano at Akrotiri...
According to ancient Egyptian records there had been a great Athenian empire 9000 years earlier (that is, in about 9600 B.C.) At the same time there had been a mighty empire of Atlantis based on an island or continent west of the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar) that was ...