Malta, being home to some of the oldest man-made structures in the world, is considered a possible location of Atlantis both by some current researchers and by Maltese enthusiasts.
Robert Graves in his The Greek Myths (1955), argues Atlantis was the Island of Pharos off the western coast of the Nile Delta.
The discovery of the Minoans on this Greek island in 1900 led to theories linking the disappearance of the empire to the destruction of Atlantis.
Hypothesis fueled by the idea that the Italians were involved in the Sea Peoples movement, and that Plato's descriptions match this region and its Bronze Age culture.
The classicist Robert L. Scranton argued that Atlantis was the 'Copaic drainage complex and its civilization' in Lake Copais, Boetia.
Two early 2000s hypotheses have put Spartel Bank, a submerged former island in the Strait of Gibraltar, as the location of Atlantis.
Architect Robert Sarmast has argued that Atlantis lies within the Cyprus Basin because of features resembling man-made structures on it at depths of 1,500 meters.
Eberhard Zangger has proposed the hypothesis that Atlantis was in fact the city state of Troy, located in modern Anatolia.
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