Archaelogy in the UK. Atlantis. Fictional island in Plato's works, now a synonym for supposed prehistoric lost civilizations Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam.
The map is oriented with south at the top. While present-day philologists and classicists agree on the story's fictional character,[9][10] there is still debate on what served as its inspiration.