Do you think Plato wrote that Atlantis was some huge island out in the Atlantic, this the common misconception embraced by the public thinking therefore that it’s just mythological? Popping that bubble is Plato having written that the empire of Atlantis extended east and west from the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), not saying how far to the west, but east to Libya and the Tyrrhenian sea (Italy), it was a coastal empire of the Ice Age, during which bronze age technology was utilized according to Plato, the Ice Age which ended at the time of the Exodus.