Atlantis is one of the oldest myths of mankind, a lost paradise and a by-word for all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations. It has been assigned to almost every possible place on earth including Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Sinai, Sweden, Bahamas, Bermuda Triangle, Japan and even Kumari Kandam (off India). There seems to be no limit to human fantasy!

Plato (427-347 BC) was the first person to actually write about Atlantis and all other reports, sources and imaginings stem from his original account one of his Dialogues, Critias and Timaeus: "Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island, and several others, and over parts of the continent... in the center of the whole island, there was a plain, said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile..."