FOR centuries, historians, archaeologists and scuba divers have sought — and failed over and over again — to find Atlantis, the glorious ancient metropolis that was lost beneath the waves. But what if the wave was lost beneath the city? That is, what if the “sunken” metropolis was, in fact, only sunken briefly by a tsunami wave, which wreaked colossal destruction before receding back to the sea. That’s the hypothesis of German computer whiz Michael Hubner. He believed what remains of the ruins of the ancient city are, in fact, sitting in plain sight above the Atlantic on the dry, crumbly coastline of Morocco.
Atlantis is not Shangri-La or the Fountain of Youth or the Loch Ness monster. It is considered likely to have existed — if for no other reason than it was described with great precision by the Greek philosopher Plato himself. Sure, its grandeur was likely embellished, but why would Plato write in detail of a city if it didn’t even exist? And if we accept that it existed, well, where was it?
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