According to legend, Atlantis was an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Strait of Gibraltar. In Plato’s philosophical work Timaeus, Egyptian priests describe it to the Athenian statesman Solon as larger than Asia Minor and Libya combined. Atlantis was said to have sunk following earthquakes and floods.
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