From what I understand about this, the mythical story of Atlantis has a most ardent champion with the annals of history. Apparently the island of Santorini hosted a greatly advanced civilization (archaeological remains have found evidence of flushing toilets....OMG flushing toilets what the heck ya know?) that flourished until the volcano that the island sat upon completely annihilated it. The drawings depicting atlantis are exactly identical with the topography of santorini: a crescent-shaped island, etc., etc., of course the island doesn't look like that after the eruption BUT scientists have analyzed the island's contemporary layout and have extrapolated it's possible topography from the time prior to the eruption, and it matches the drawings of atlantis. Crazy huh?