There’s a moment in Plato’s dialogues where the story of Atlantis—often dismissed as pure myth—takes a sudden, suspiciously specific turn. According to the philosopher, the tale came from Solon, a respected Greek lawmaker, who travelled to Egypt around 600 BC. While there, he spoke with elderly priests in the city of Sais, who told him something extraordinary.
They claimed the story of Atlantis had been preserved in sacred registers for over 9,000 years.
Now, do the maths.
If Solon was in Egypt around 600 BC, and the event he was told about happened 9,000 years earlier, that places the destruction of Atlantis at approximately 11,600 years ago.
Guess what also happened around 11,600 years ago?
The Younger Dryas Cataclysm
That’s the end of the Younger Dryas, a mysterious period of sudden global climate change. Temperatures shot up. Massive glacial melt occurred. Sea levels rose dramatically—possibly by dozens of metres in some places.
This wasn’t a gentle warming. It was chaos.
Glaciers collapsed. Oceans surged. And according to some researchers—like Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and geologist John Shaw—this period may have seen what Shaw dubbed a Catastrophic Rise Event (CRE). In other words: the world flooded.
So when ancient Egyptian priests told Solon that an advanced civilisation was wiped out in a cataclysm 9,000 years before his time… maybe they weren’t spinning tales.
Maybe they were remembering something.
Myth as Memory
I’m not saying Atlantis was a flying city of crystals or anything out of a Marvel movie. But stories passed down over millennia often do encode truth—especially when the stakes were that high.
Could Atlantis have been:
- A real coastal city swallowed by rising seas?
- A symbolic name for a network of ice age-era settlements?
- A mythologised memory of sudden disaster passed on through ritual, song, and oral history?
I don’t know. But I do know this:
The date lines up.
And that’s not to be taken lightly. not something we should ignore lightly.
How This Ties into The Legacy Unwritten
In The Legacy Unwritten, I explore memory—how it’s stored, how it’s passed on, and how it might survive even when everything else is lost. The idea that some truths are older than civilisation itself, waiting to be unlocked, became a central theme.
The story of Atlantis? Whether real or metaphor… it fits perfectly.
Want to Dive Deeper?
If this kind of thing fascinates you, you’re not alone. Here are a few links worth checking out:
- Plato’s Timaeus and Critias – the source of the Atlantis tale
- Randall Carlson’s work on Atlantis and ancient catastrophes
- Younger Dryas info – NASA
- Graham Hancock on lost civilisations
- Dr. John Shaw’s research on megafloods and CREs (archive)
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