From The Guardian: Another dip in the Mediterranean in search of Atlantis.
Posted on April 30, 2004 09:14 AM. Filed under: history & archaeology.A quest for the lost island of Atlantis began off the southern shores of Cyprus yesterday.
After a decade of intense study an American, Robert Sarmast, claims to have assembled evidence to prove that the fabled island lies a mile deep in the sea between Cyprus and Syria. He says he has detected "around 48" of the 50 geographical features Plato described the island as having before it was "swallowed up by the earth".
By August he hopes to have proved that Atlantis was not simply a figment of the imagination but a real empire with stone temples, bridges, canals and roads.
"What we have discovered is a hidden landmass that fits Plato's famed description almost exactly," he said in the Cypriot port of Limassol.
"For the first time we've been able to match that description with a real place which does, I think, prove what the ancient world believed, that Atlantis was founded in history and not a myth." [continue].