There are perhaps hundreds of locations proposed for the "Lost Continent" of Atlantis. Over the course of centuries every location has been pr oven false. There are cultures that have "lost civilizations" myths that can be proved. The story is about the conflict between ancient Athenians that was supposedly transmitted through the oral telling of it by Egyptian priests. Many of the myths of the ancient world can not be pr oven. There is no proof of the creation of the world by God. There is no proof of Adam and Eve. We can not prove may things in ancient times, but leave it to faith to explain. Remember that there was a time in not the too recent past that the legend of Troy was thought to be a fantastical tale rather than fact.

There are archaeological finds that some believe prove the existence of Atlantis from the ocean bottoms off Europe and Africa, while others claim the same thing off the Bahamas coasts. In the "History of the Golden Ages" the details of many things that are said to prove the existence of these lost civilizations including pyramids, paved roads, and even domes.

There is a controversy; however, not to the existence but with the location. In the book "Fingerprints of God" by Graham Hancock makes a case that is relatively new in theory that Atlantis is not lost. It is Antarctica. His case is made by showing that Plato's account of Atlantis is only a fragment of the world of long ago. We know that the geography of the world has changed and shifted over the centuries. The description in the account by Plato is that Atlantis was located in the center of the "real ocean". Hancock makes the case for turning the world upside down to view it from Antarctica's perspective. When this is done, the view of the oceans being separate entities changes. What is seen is that all the oceans are one with the continents outlining it.

Plato talks about the whole opposite continent, this phrase actually makes sense if you turn the world opposite of what we view it as. If looking at the world from the Greek perspective the "Pillars of Heracles" is really only able to be a one location. The Strait of Gibraltar. The "Pillars of Heracles" then becomes truly to the Greeks of Solon's time the limit of the known world.

The next clue that Plato gives is that Atlantis is mountainous and an island larger than what we call Libya and Asia combined. The whole island continent was high above sea-level. All of this is true of Antarctica. In Plato's Timaeus the island of Atlantis was near other islands. This would describe the lesser Antarctica islands.

Although Plato was the first, there are other written accounts. In 1665 a German Jesuit priest published a book which included a reproduction of what he called an ancient Egyptian map that included the location of Atlantis. The label on the map is in Latin and translates "Site of Atlantis, now beneath the sea, according to the beliefs of the Egyptians and the description of Plato". The map can be found in his book "Mundus Subterraneus". The location of Atlantis on this map is Antarctica.

Remember, the Egyptians believed the Earth was reversed - North was South. It is also important to remember that Antarctica was not always covered in ice. We know that it has been under ice for somewhere between 50 to 60 million years. In doing the basic math it can be deduced that Plato's time line fits perfectively with this.
During Captain Cook's famous voyages around the 1770's found that there were at least twenty four separate points that were accurate within a half a degree of longitude with the 1513 Piri Re'is map which places Atlantis in the same location of Atlantis.
Most of the previous studies looked at the clues left behind in Plato's writings; however, they have all led us to believe these lands were the lands of Thule and Hyperborea rather than Atlantis.

The Sumerian's believed in an Atlantis that was a bit fantastical in nature. As with any oral story told and then documented, the more it is told and retold the deeper the in fiction that cloaks it. Looking for similarities in ancient civilizations myths we find that most believed in the Titans. Different cultures knew them as different names however, they were giants from seven to twelve feet in height, All though in human form, they were thought to be very different than the humans of today. Some theories believe that the original people of Atlantis were extra-terrestrial origin coming from the Lyrian star system. While some believe that their story is hidden in Genesis as the Elohim or Annuaki. These giant people were thought to be completely mythical in nature until a dozen skeletons were found in a excavation.

In Plato's Critias duologue, which indisputably is the first written account of Atlantis, he gives 53 definite clues as to the location of Atlantis. These 53 clues were documented in detail by Robert Sarmast book "Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus" that shows a direct link to 51 clues being present on the Island of Cyprus and the land beneath the ocean surrounding the island.

There can be made cases for the location of Atlantis to be in many different locations. To make the case for any particular location is simply a procession of accepting certain perceptions as truths. Until further archaeological digs can be made in numerous places thought to be Atlantis, the case can not be made from a scientific point and proved.