Legend of the lost continent of Atlantis sinking

Most people have heard of the lost city of Atlantis Atlantis. Began with the legendary Greek philosopher Plato, Plato, in 360 BC Plato wrote a book explaining the Atlantis which he describes as the largest of the "to Libya" and "Asia" combined. (It should be noted that Libya was representing North Africa and Asia was another name for the island of Cyprus, and then released later on every continent now known as Asia).

 Emerged according to the word Atlantis Plato to exist before 9000 years at the front of the pillars of Hercules Pillars of Hercules and the area now known as the Strait of Gibraltar, the alignment of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Plato mentions that the inhabitants of Atlantis possessed a great naval power which made them greedy and morally corrupt, and after that led a failed attack on Athens and sudden natural disaster occurred within the island Vgrguet overnight became shallow muddy spot is impossible to find.

 There are many theories to locate Atlantis, which perhaps inspired them around Plato's writings, for example, believed the German physicist Rainer fact that Atlantis was located at the southern Spanish coast, the flood washed away in the period between 800 to 500 BC. Satellite pictures showed two masses in the rectangular spot mud Rains believe it was probably the remains of the temple was described by Plato. While the Swedish geologist Ulf Arlngson says that Ireland match with the descriptions of Plato on Atlantis,

Others say that Atlantis is an island Spartel Spartel It is a spot of mud shallow had sunk in the sea at the Straits of Gibraltar since approximately 11,500 years, a researcher with American Robert Samarst mentioned in his book "The discovery of Atlantis and surprises the island of Cyprus," he found evidence that the Gog the lost continent between Cyprus and Syria and that the effects of the discovery of human settlements at a depth of 1.5 km under the sea at a distance of eighty kilometers to the southeast coast of Cyprus, said that Cyprus is the part that is still apparent from the Atlantis

 The traditional scholars to believe that the legend of Atlantis a few people Ulloa said attention needed to Plato's Atlantis, literally before the coming of the modern era. In this regard, people who wrote the philosopher Julia in her book titled: "Plato: a very brief introduction," as follows: "We will lose an important point when we search for those things that our mission was limited only to explore the jetties."