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“The lost city of Atlantis may been found!”(I) What is Atlantis, well it is supposedly a city built by the sea god Poseidon but suddenly went missing. How it went missing , plus where it is still remains a mystery. While there are many reasonable facts and theories surrounding the lost city of Atlantis such as that is was Antarctica, further investigations regarding where it is needs to happen in order for the mystery to be solved.
Atlantis is a well known mystery written in Plato’s stories. Atlantis is best known for being a mythical underwater city. While it is mysterious their are also some known facts such as when ever Atlantis sunk it was around 9,000 B.C. Also that “Plato first describes Atlantis as larger than Liberia and Asia together.”(E)

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