As Japan reels from the tsunami, archeologists claim to have discovered the lost city of Atlantis, a fabled place built-like much of the world-in the crosshairs of nature. In this week's Newsweek, Simon Winchester looks into whether the giant tsunami demolished the legendary city.
To the grim list of cities and places wrecked and ruined by the indescribably awful majesty of earthquake-powered tsunamis-Sendai and Fukushima most recently, Banda Aceh in Sumatra six years ago, the west of Java more than a century back-must now be added one that is more famous and enigmatic than all the rest: Atlantis. For it now turns out that the island-city that for centuries has captured the public imagination as the world's oldest philosophical wonderland may well have existed after all-and it may have done so right where it has long been thought to have been sited: close to the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
To the grim list of cities and places wrecked and ruined by the indescribably awful majesty of earthquake-powered tsunamis-Sendai and Fukushima most recently, Banda Aceh in Sumatra six years ago, the west of Java more than a century back-must now be added one that is more famous and enigmatic than all the rest: Atlantis. For it now turns out that the island-city that for centuries has captured the public imagination as the world's oldest philosophical wonderland may well have existed after all-and it may have done so right where it has long been thought to have been sited: close to the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 3/20/2011
- by Simon Winchester
- The Daily Beast
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