Finding Atlantis

Could Plato’s allegorical lost city of Atlantis be discovered? In Finding Atlantis, experts survey Spanish marshlands using a combination of satellite, radar, and underwater technology in search of proof of the ancient city.

The film presents the case for having discovered the mythical city. Hartford University’s Professor Freund leads the investigation, driven by a strong belief that the city was destroyed by a massive tsunami in 9000 BC. Inspired by the discovery of a stele in Cádiz, Spain, which he believes may once have stood at Atlantis’s entrance, his search has focused on nearby marshlands to detect even the faintest traces of the city.

While Finding Atlantis presents Spain’s waterways as Atlantis’s graveyard, the idea that the city lies in Spain is only the latest theory surrounding its location. Previously, American oceanographers believed the city was near Cyprus, and before that it was thought to be located in the Mediterranean, Central America, and even Antarctica.