
1996
The film presents compelling evidence that Altlantis wasn't so far away after all, but what it omits is just as compelling. Although Plato’s account of Atlantian masonry, consisting of red, white and black stones, was a visually perfect match for the modern walls of the Minoan excavation site favored by the film, and his account of a sea made impassable by small islands of mud could, in fact, be a description of the rafts of pumice left by the catastrophic eruption of an ancient volcano there, little mention is made of Plato's specific account of where Atlantis was or the common root that links Atlantis to the Atlantic ocean. Also omitted is Plato's chronology placing the sinking of Atlantis in the same time frame as the end of the last ice age which caused the inundation of huge expanses of once fertile lands. Is "Atlantis: The Evidence" a thinly disguised example of Eurocentrism in the media? Watch Discovery: Atlantis for a more comprehensive view on an age-old debate.

Piers Gibbon
Narrator

Egypt's Lost Cities

Atlantis

Prehistoric Women

Atlantis: Secret Star Mappers of a Lost World

Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen

Living with Wolves

The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans

Palmyre, à la croisée des mondes

Ramses II : La Vérité sur le plus grand des pharaons

Charcot: Secret Poles

L'Aventure Rosetta : Aux origines de la vie

Mysteries from Beyond Earth

Space Shuttle: The Final Mission

Lili

Momies d'Egypte, en quête d'immortalité

Lost Temple of The Inca

Secrets of the Andean Temples: On the Trail of Viracocha

Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry

Quest for Atlantis: Lost Kingdoms, Buried Treasures and Mysterious Artifacts

Lost Temples of the Jungle