The Lost Empire of Atlantis
Was it just a legend, or was it in fact a real place?
If there is a corner in the world, where mythology and history meet, where mysteries become reality, a place where destiny crosses paths with adventure, a place of true stories of ancient times and a faraway past whose ruins were preserved throughout time, where the cruellest of chronics teaches us a moral, something like a reminder, where would that be?
Legendary geographical places are communal in popular mythologies, but maybe they would be more striking if their size was really impressive, if their destiny was tragic enough or if the entire continent simply were to disappear, from one day to another, sunken, buried under the sea, never to be heard or seen again.
If such a place existed, it would undoubtedly be the splendid and glorious maritime Empire of Atlantis. The continent that gave its name to the ocean, the Atlantic, which so suddenly and brutally swallowed it, without warning, without remorse, and in silence. In spite of great scientific progress in our era, we humans are still ignorant about many things that are yet to be discovered.
The Beginning
Atlantis was a big island, an empire, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean outside of the pillars of Hercules; the name given to the island…
