Andrew Schulz

Um, he's an Athenian lawmaker that basically goes on this vacation for, I think a decade.

And he eventually goes to Egypt.

And when he's in Egypt, he's taken to, uh, the, I think, I think that Sace was the capital at the time.

Cause it was the, the state empire or the, or the say I kingdom.

And, uh,

So he's taken to the city of Sais where he meets a priest.

And the priest essentially tells him about this, about when Athens was at war with this ancient civilization called Atlantis at one point in time.

The whole story is told to Solon, supposedly in the 600s in Egypt.

Solon goes back from Egypt.

He goes back up to Athens.

He lives the rest of his life.

He tells that story to some people.

And over the course of...

much more than 100 years, almost 200 years, the story supposedly comes all the way down to Plato.

And then Plato is the first one to write that down inside a philosophical story that's telling a bigger tale that's more relevant to the Athenians.

And so people take that story, and basically what the story is, is there was this ancient civilization that existed in a certain place called

Just insert all the descriptions that he adds of Atlantis.

And that Atlantis rises and that it's at war with Athens and that Athens eventually defeated Atlantis some 9,000 years ago, according to what Solon says that the Egyptians told him.

9,000 years before, which would be 9,600 BC, and then this massive cataclysmic wave washed over the city of Atlantis and sunk it into the depths of the sea, right?

And so the moral of the story is that this civilization was so powerful and so wealthy and so successful that it...