Andrew Schulz

This was actually Europe's first ancient civilization, Crete.

So the Minoans of Crete.

So the Greeks definitely remember it.

They definitely remember the dramatic events that led to them being destroyed.

They remember the Mycenaeans, which had colonized Athens.

The Athenians' core principal mythological figure is Theseus, who was an...

an Athenian, but also a Mycenaean as well, who went into the land of the Minotaur and killed the Minotaur, basically.

And so, yeah, I think that that is what Plato was drawing on.

And that's a, like, you know, it's an actual, like, robust archaeological idea rather than, like, you know, sometimes I just...

sometimes I get tired of talking about the mystery with no actual theories.

You know what I mean?

And so that's sort of, if I have to put a theory as to what I think it is... Does anybody else share this viewpoint on it?

There are archaeologists who agree, and then there are archaeologists who, like,

Completely.

Out and out, completely disagree.

Because they say, well, oh, and you know what's really interesting is, well, they say how Atlantis was like a circular sort of island or whatever.

Well, Santorini, even before it erupted, was a circular island.

Like, it was a circular island with water in the middle.

You can look up the way, like, it's geological.

geologic or geographic formation but it was a circular island but there's all kinds of different discrepancies right like uh where it says that atlantis was beyond the pillars of hercules well this is supposed to be the pillar of hercules the straight of gibraltar it's supposed to be out here and the geology that they describe there isn't the same as what it would be on crete and then they say that atlantis had elephants or whatever now one of the things that's really interesting is that there is a miniature african elephant that used to exist on on crete