You ivory tower types are all the same. You hypocritically make similar assumptions about others as you belittle them for....all in the name of "scientific method". Bright Insight channel has provided a very interesting candidate thus far for the "legendary" city of Atlantis. You attempt to pick apart a "legend" with inadequate tools. All Bright Insight has done is point to what has turned out to be the most interesting candidate for that legend having a basis in reality. So, if Bright Insight has foolishly polished a turd, what does that make you for buzzing around it? This subject is 'beneath' someone of your caliber. You should climb back up the tower and help keep those mirror finished, checkerboard floors polished. And leave channels like 'Bright Insight' to doing what they do best, sharing "Insight".

I hope that 2500 years from now people think Tolkein's writings were real.

Just wait, in a couple of thousand years people will be trying to find the rings of power and the remains of elves and dwarfes

Personally, I tend to consider Critias claiming to have gotten his knowledge of Atlantis from Solon's notes as being similar in vein to J.R.R. Tolkien claiming he translated all of the Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit from "the Red Book of Westmarch". It's worldbuilding for the sake of the fiction, or as a novelty of immersion. And given the similar levels of intricate detail in _Critias_ to other of Plato's dialogues, such as _The Republic,_ I don't think it would be wrong to call Plato a fond worldbuilder.

"Even several errors of fact that injure the theory beyond repair." That has to be the kindest takedown that I have ever heard. I must say, I found your channel through your collaboration with Atun-Shei. Though my formal education ended with a B.A. in History, I thoroughly enjoy learning from your videos and I appreciate what you're doing. Keep up with the great content!

I would also bring up that plato LOVED to invent weird allegorical stories. Its a really common part of his wtitings and it sounds like these guys have single mindedly focused on the parts of platos writings talking about atlantis, without engaging with the larger body of work that makes much of this stuff very clear. Atlantis is not any less outlandish than the allegory of the cave.

I wonder how many of the hate comments actually watched the information being presented.

After all those years, i found that the real Atlantis was the friends we made along the way .

Imagine if 2500 years from now, people were debating where Hogwarts was located. Well, Disneyland obviously, and roughly 9500 Bce.

So, 2500 years from now we’re going to have a bunch of Elvis worshiping conspiracy theorists looking for Captain American’s shield and Thor’s hammer, cool.

I wonder when the people who search for Atlantis will begin searching for Lilliput and Oz?

You know you've hit a nerve when no one is targeting your evidence for being bad, just your "tone." I honestly commend you for not losing your shit, because when I have researched other made up nonsense, I get mad myself. Especially when the person most likely knew they were lying, or, that they knew what they said wasn't on solid evidenciary footing. That is enraging, so I take your tone to be reserved, and matching the ridiculousness of Bright Insight's claims.

Plato uses mythology as a metaphor. He did over and over again. He put mythological motives in many characters' mouths. His obsession was politics: how should men be governed? What is the ideal political regime? Atlantis is given as an example.

So many of the "alternative history" theories completely ignore basic geology. If the proponents actually considered this line of "evidence," many of these theories would never get off the launch pad.

I've become a big fan of your channel recently, and the comments on this one are bizarre... It's like entering another world.

Brights intentional omission starting at 25:26 of the long list of platos details that Don't match at all tell you everything you need to know about his character.

I find your patience and politeness in dealing with naysayers remarkably commendable. Excellent video, please keep up the good work.

What is so funny is that nearly every person who fervently and adamantly pushes the Atlantis conspiracy never read Plato’s story. Come on don’t lie to yourselves

Even if Plato honestly believed in Atlantis, and told everything exactly as he learned it, that would not prove it true

You need to see this documentary called Stargate Atlantis. It has Jason Momoa.

Thank you sir! I'm 62 and had seeds of Atlantis mystery planted in my mind when I was an early teen. Yours is the first and so far only fully informed, credible, compassionate, patient, detailed and documented refutation and clarification that I have heard. Your personal identification and subsequent respect for the young man, Alexander, is moving in it's depth of respect. You are an impressive educator and person. Thank you for your work.

Bright Insight's fanbase all rushing in to defend his pseudoscience lol. I stopped believing when Jimmy started describing Atlantis as a city with a million people and thousands of warships in 12000 BC in his part 2 video

The 'level of outrage of the ' Atlantis & ancient powertool crowd ' in the comment section is something to behold. 😅

I don't know which I enjoy more, your deft use of logic and knowledge to debunk pseudoscience claims or the wildly entertaining comments on your videos. I shall share your videos with many of my well intentioned but misguided family members and friends who often spread the sensational without first checking the facts.

Gotta love that Ancient-Aliens/Atlantis crowd. Like children digging in their heels with "Santa _is_ real, so you're a liar!"

I kept reading these comments looking for punchlines but none of them ever had any.

Ah I love history channel comments: claiming the big bad teacher is being mean to them because they gently pointed towards real life evidence instead of talking about the psychic aliens that totally beamed the real truthy truth into their brains, such a tough situation for them

Could you please do a video on likely locations of Plato's cave?

Strange how some people get SUPER UPSET when you say the words “Atlantis didn’t exist”. In the book The Ousiders, Ponyboy & Johnny escape to the abandoned church in Windrixville… which also doesn’t exist. When I drove through Oklahoma I found that out the hard way. Yes, Tulsa exists but Windrixville doesn’t. Sometimes the truth can be painful, but you get over it.

Its amazing that the Believers will continue to believe, no matter how many real facts and logic presented to them.

I have a series of lectures by an historian who claimed that the story of Atlantis was a disguised critique of the Athenian democracy and it's navy. If you replace the word Atlantis with Athens and Athens with the word Sparta it makes much more sense. The three circular harbors of Athens and it's reliance on a navy and Sparta's reliance on an army is convincing. The purpose of the "disguise" was to shield himself from the wrath of the population of the democratic Athenians who might exile him similar to fate of Thucydides or execution as they did to Socrates.

Before i watched this video i thought Atlantis existed and now i realize that it probably did not. I also have a new level of respect for actual academics who have put in untold amounts of time studying antiquity far more in depth than i ever could. Thank you for opening my eyes to some of these things.

Oh dear. "You ivory tower types". How dare you expect a little actual original research from the alt history folk. I bet you even expect them to have read a translation of Plato's original work. I bet you expect them to have read the rest of Plato's surviving works as well. Just in case there are other examples of him inventing an imagined scenario to explain his thesis. How dare you expect them to think for themselves. Especially as most believers seem to be young. I recall needing and wanting to believe in all this. Looking back I was missing believing in the possibilty that there were fairies and pixies. And a bit later that there was a god or even gods.

Jimmy also said that the area must be excavated and researched before being completely dismissed. Yes, he advocated for the idea. But, as with Dwarka and Troy, which were legends, we shouldn't dismiss everything solely based on biases.

I love the way you tell history like it is, not fluffing it up. You keep it real.

Bright Insight: Plato was known for his brilliance of mind and strength of character and this is the only example at least that I'm aware of where he was ever accused of lying about something. Plato: In my most famous text, I literally propose inventing new myths to improve social cohesion, an idea that scholars later dubbed "The Noble Lie" 🤷‍♂

The fact that sticks in my Craw is the Richart structure is 1200 ft above sea level. The sea at it's fullest would not rise to this level and I haven't seen any evidence that the West Africa plain has risen 1200 ft in the last 11000 years.

13:12 "And this is the only example (at least that I'm aware of) where [Plato and Solon] are accused of lying about something" As someone who actually reads Plato, I had a good laugh when Bright Insight said this.

People don't seem to understand the concept of Allegory.

Think of all the people who have searched the world for Atlantis, locating it everywhere from Peru to Antarctica...yet nobody has ever sought after Lost Ancient Athens. Given that we know where existing Athens, and the Athens of Plato's time is, the search for the Lost Ancient Athens that fought the Atlanteans in a war, ought to be a much easier find. Have any of these "alternate historians" ever gone looking for Lost Ancient Athens?

I would like to see you cover the younger dryas impact hypothesis of which there is little to no evidence. I have been in contact with physicist Mark Boslough about this topic for quite some time. You may be familiar with his work as he is highly critical of this hypothesis. He also happens to be an expert in the study of planetary impacts and global catastrophes. I am sure the audience would like to watch you two discuss this topic.

There are so many people that claim Atlantis is The Eye of the Sahara, but none of them have actually taken any action to start digging there for evidence.

I presume when a Greek reports Athens was at war with Atlantis 11,500 years ago (before present not b4 500s BCE) (~9,500 BCE) they thought the Athenians were Greek, that is, spoke Greek. Even IF Indo-European (IE) languages spread westward out of Anatolia with agriculture, the earliest evidence of agriculture (neolithic) Greece date to 6000 at most 7000 BCE - still 2500 years to late. If one subscribes to the Pontic Steppe/Kugan theory of ProtoIE, Pre/ProtoGreek speakers didn't arrive in the Athens area until even later. Certainly Greek speakers were in Greece sometime b4 1450 BCE (Linear B tabs). I can accept snippets of truth about a war CA 1200 BCE in Western Anatolia involving Greeks could be passed down several hundred years (say 1200-700 or whenever the Iliad was written down) by Greek speaking bards. But facts surviving over 8000 years being passed down to Greeks in Greek simply isn't possible when Greek as a language didn't exist for 2500 or more likely 7500 years later.

I would personally like to announce here that I have discovered that not only did Middle Earth actually exist, but it lies in New Zealand. JUST LIKE TOLKIEN DESCRIBED. Yeah, no sh*t. I’ll give you a minute to take that one in. My video is currently in production, coming soon.

Another thing researchers get wrong about Plato's famous legend is that Plato himself was a philosopher, not an historian. Herodotus holds that distinction of historian, but even he wasn't always right. By today's standards, Herodotus was more like the world's first blogger in blending myths, history, geography, anecdotes, hyperbole, etc. It's akin to that cutaway gag in Family Guy where Peter Griffin thinks there's a message in his Alphabets cereal saying, "Oooooo" when Brian Griffin correctly points out that those are Cheerios.

people can be so sad when a myth is proven a myth. Children mentally.

I am sure the Egyptians have many inscriptions that describe Athens as the best governed in the world and that Egypt learned a lot from them. That doesn't sound like something an Athenian would make up at all.

Jim is among the worst of the grifters. Like Ben at UnchartedX, he often ignores existing evidence to invent a compelling mystery; And always presented with a disclaimer similar to 'just providing the information', knowing their content will be amplified & defended by the conspiracy fans. When did the merits of education and experience get pushed aside? They used to be virtues.

I listen to this video probably once a month to remind me that proof and logic, and research are still alive in the world. Great video!

What gets me is that people will look at every detail in Plato’s story to find the “true meaning” and location for Atlantis….except for what Plato actually said about the location or the entire context of the story that is provided in and by the story itself. All of it is literally true. Except the location and capabilities of this supposed place.

Just wanted to say I really appreciate your videos and the time and energy to engage with the alternative history community. It's refreshing to see academics engaging with an alternative community that is often ignored. It's also refreshing to see someone who has a keen grasp of critical thinking concepts, but with an empathetic and charming approach

You definiteley deserve much more views and subscribers with such high quality work. Especially if it's done by a proper historian. Thanks again for your work.

Top quality debunkery! Subscribed

I should add that your analysis of the evidence is amongst the best I’ve heard on any subject on KZfaq. Many thanks.

Great video. Not sure how you deal with your comments section lol. Seems to be a few people who are super upset that you only use evidence you can back up with records instead of oral history or ancient myths like some sort of bs history channel show that will not be named lol.

The Troy rebuttal (*cough cough...Troy was real when people thought it wasn't) doesn't work. You know why? There are records of Ilium. Romans knew the city was Troy. Even Mehmet II visited the place after beating up Constantinople. Look, people in history knew where the place was. To use this in order to justify dumb Atlantis talk is just plain stupid.

Hi David! I found my way here from Atun-shei and I really dig your videos. You got a new subscriber

Ah yes the lost city of Atlantis. The Greeks never thought to look between the cushions of the sofa.

The "kernel of truth" in the Atlantis myth is the late bronze age collapse in 1189 BC, some 800 years before Plato wrote about it. It's not difficult to imagine the survivors, trying to eke out a living against those great, cyclopean walls, would have imagined a time when giants walked the Earth. They had even lost the ability to write for a few hundred years, and who else could have built those gigantic ruins if not a race of giants? Or the very gods themselves? {:-:-:}

@WorldofAntinquity Your videos are always so insightful and well-done! Bravo!

It's amazing that Plato's thought experiments to show off the superiority of the Greek system have caused such a mess!

I love this channel because not only do I get to hear about the out-there hypotheses of alternate history, but then you completely break down what their saying while providing the information as its currently understood. You always provide evidence, a detailed explaination of context as well as the fallacies others may fall into; and are always willing to give have a good faith arguement. Kudos for your patience and willingness to engage with these subjects. My brother has been, gosh I dont wanna say foolish but he is my brother 😒... Hes been duped by videos literally about this subject and the "High Technology" stuff too, and sending this over to him has helped him open his eyes and realize history can be interesting enough without having to lie and misinform. Edit: I read maybe two or three of the comments here and I just, oof bad idea. Thank you for having so much patience to do this much needed work.

It's a NATURAL formation that began 100 million years ago, when Africa and South America began splitting apart. A huge dome formed from underlying flat formations, when a hot spot formed in the mantle. Erosion of the dome formed the concentric circles that we see now. It's easy to understand after you take a few University level geology classes.

At 13:40 plus Bright uses the word lie a lot. Plato wasnt 'lying' any more than, say, Agatha Chtistie, or Shakespeare or Maya Angelou are lying when they wrote their plays and novels. Plus Plato did use invented stories to exemplify his teachings and ideas. Eg the one about the people chained in a dark cave facing a wall on which they saw only the flickering shadows cast by the fires behind them. Read it and see.

Wait a minute... ATLANTIS IS JUST A MYTH?!?!? Boo to you sir and your facts, evidence, reasoning and critical thinking. If I ever get within one stadion of your ivory tower, watch out!! As for now, in the name of my ancient alien ancestors, I spit in your general direction. Ptuh! All kidding aside, I just discovered your channel and have enjoyed what I have seen so far.

For some reason that bit at around the 13:45 mark has become a bit of a running joke between me and some of my friends. We'll be watching a movie, then when something fantastical happens we'll be like "Is this movie LYING to me?" I just think it's so funny 😅

Thank you for breaking this down. I have seen someone explain why the Atlantis story was an allegory, just academics saying "It's obviously made up" and then moving on. I wish more institutional sources, like yourself, would extend an olive branch and try to walk "alternative theorist" through why their arguements are weak.

That was informative thanks. I've been fascinated with this. Personally, I find the Richat Structure to be a one of a kind geological structure on the planet which makes me suspicious of it being natural. But the lack of direct evidence linking it to Atlantis makes it hard to argue....have to give it to Plato....whether invented or not....was a great story. Maybe I should read some of his stuff.

What I think would be interesting would be a video(not too long) where you sit down with a psychologist and go over why it is that so many people lean towards these "secrets" and weird theories and what not instead of being interested in truth. You see it in religions too, people start off with the intention of truth and next thing you know they are hiding evidence to defend their beliefs. There has to be something going on with people that have this tendency

Imagine alternate history people getting their hands on incomplete Borges tales 500 years from now and believing that his writings are scientific proof of the existence of Tlön.

Plato used Socrates as a Character to weigh new ideas against. Being the most familiar with Socrates and the awareness of how Socrates met his end, Plato used the teachings of his master to expose not only the Man's virtues but also the vices in his process that could lead to misunderstanding. More than likely, Plato found an old unfinished poem about a visit to Egypt to build his idea upon and used his favorite trope to tell the story, "What did the old sage learn about...?" Plato was living IN Socrates shadow, quite literally most of the time, so to be taken seriously in his contemporary time he needed to exploit his greatest trait in the eyes of the ignorant; his closeness to Socrates. I have looked at this exact fact for a very long time. I feel confident that the Atlantis Story has ancient origins, but not as a story of truth but as a story or myth rooted in the memories of surviving the cataclysms of the violent earth we evolved on. We constantly overlook the transition from Ancestor Worship to Polytheism to Monotheism and what that really means, revering the Ancestors that saw us through the last great Cataclysm (Insert flood, volcano, or meteor here as applicable for your society) would be the first "Religions" eventually only your tribe cares who your ancestors are and so when you talk to others about your great people they soon become a group of gods that shaped a wonderful life of far less struggle than they have today. Once you have a pantheon you cannot get rid of them without having another cataclysm, this one far less troublesome but just scary enough to make people more superstitious. This lays the groundwork for turning superstition into a personal relationship with the gods despite all reason. I believe Plato actually saw this coming with the Zoroastrians and other Groups emerging, I also believe he had a major fear of Monotheism once it had been manipulated by men of low Ethic. These works were an attempt by Plato to enamor mankind with their own Potential rooted in the truth he knew to be certain, that mankind has been around a VERY long time and has survived a great deal to get where they were. Essentially, Socrates and Plato were trying to make a democratic world without religion...too bad Aristotle didn't fully get the message and fed Alexander into his own narcissism creating a living god complex in a man capable of conquering the world; that son of bitch inspired EVERYTHING that came after.

Socrates also appears in the great real-life factual documentary, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

I just wish Atlantis fans actually read what Plato said.

To build on the professor's Marvel analogy: imagine 2,400 years from now someone watching Captain America and using it as evidence that at some point in the past humans had developed incredible augmentation chemistry and thinking Steve Rogers was definitely a real person because why would they include so many details in the film if it wasn't real. I really have to thank the professor on this one because at no point in my general education did anyone address that Plato's writings weren't meant to be taken at face value (something it seems a lot of my fellow Americans also did not experience), they were always discussed as if they were transcripts of Socrates' dialogues, with no mention of what someone reading them all the way back in the 3rd century BCE would have been thinking about.

There were also parodies of Atlantis contemporary to Plato. That bit alone should be enough to know it's fictional. The dialogues should also be placed in the context of his dialogues as a whole, especially The Republic. Not only was Athens of 9000 years ago modeled on Plato's just republic, but Atlantis is like a hyperbolized version of the Athenian Empire. It should also be noted that writing didn't exist 8000 years before Solon, and neither did Athens or Sais, not even close. The people who believe in Atlantis are going off VERY limited knowledge of Plato and history, and generally are prone to believing in myths and conspiracy theories and assessing based on confirmation bias rather than critical thought.

This would be a very easy theory to prove or disprove. If the Eye of Africa was Atlantis and it was flooded, there should be a large number of ancient anchors around every ridge channel that would have been ripped off and buried along with heavy cargo. A geological study could be done to give the most likely path of the flood waters and maybe even a likely area for deposits. Looking at it I have my guesses where those might be but I’m no expert. If no anchors can be found then no Atlantis! If found then maybe there is something more to be explained.

The thing that makes me wonder why people insist upon believing Atlantis was real, is the fact that what Plato wrote was an allegory on the topic of the hubris of nations. Fiction.Why, then, are people thinking it's real? Until they can explain why a fictional place is real, nothing else matters.

Atlantis is next door to my building here in Toronto. The sign clearly designates it as Atlantis. It is a real estate firm. A quick search on Google Earth will zoom into it. Problem solved. The Richat structure is an eroded geological dome, easily understood by geologists. There's nothing about it that even remotely resembles Plato's story, other than it being round. I'm sticking with the one next door to me.

Great video! Thank you for addressing this! I can't believe some of the comments lol Do not feel discouraged by the comments, this is great content!

I was always curious but some of the comments show people actually religiously believe atlantis...wow!

In the context of Platon's dialogues, Plato role is supposed/conceited to be present, listing and writing everything down. Hence he never takes part in the discussions, though Socrates once addresses him in the Apology.

Wow this topic really brings out the screwballs, crackpots and whackaloons doesn't it?

I found your channel through Mr. Beat Im happy I found your channel and I hope others are fortunate enough also

The Richat Structure isn't COMPLETLY empty right? There's outlines of structures that were once there in satellite images, one dude actually visited the site and uploaded some videos of it, shoutout to him for going all the way out there!!

Plato just trolling these guys hard after so many years

Has anyone looked at the Geology? All these comments. All plato knew about was the Greek world of Athens and that was very small. he did not know what was outside of his world other than Egypt. Do you think he knew of North America or of plate-tectonics. Do you think he knew of Australia? China? Japan? South America? What was his world? Maybe his story was about the Minoans but he just embellished. Hubris. They lived a life of luxury and a volcano took them out. Understanding geology is very important. All his numbers do not fit. I think the Richat is an impact crater that has been eroded. It has been studied.

In my language, there's a word which is very close with the name of this legendary city, it's: TIMTLANT, which means the buried one.

I enjoy the myth of Atlantis and its depictions in fiction and I'm annoyed by people who think it was a real place, so I'm really enjoying debunking videos like this. And I always learn something new too, such as that a stadium wasn't a precise measurement, which makes sense. One thing I want to mention (I think I read/heard it somewhere before) is that the size of Africa and Asia combined probably isn't what we imagine now, but rather just the parts of Africa and Asia that were commonly known back then, which would make it much smaller - and probably easier to imagine as an island :D

I like Aesop. He used fables as a mechanism to teach others about logic and morality. This must then be considered in the context that back then most were illiterate and hence storytelling was the most common way of passing on information and teaching others. Moral of the story: so metaphors and allegories as a mechanism for expressing moral lessons might be a better way to view Plato's accounting of Atlantis = vis a vis referring to the Minoans. Then as now wealth breeds power -----> power breeds resentment. So the Minoans were a regional power compared to the Greeks. Their civilization was brought low by the Thera eruption. Volcanism = "divine activity" = "divine retribution" for "moral excesses". This makes the Atlantis story a "cautionary tale" to be taught to others - not unlike Aesop used - rather than literal historical truth. Historians of that period related what they saw/lived through - OR - what was related to them by others. Herodotus wrote of many things. Some turned out to be corroborated by subsequent evidence - while some of what he related is viewed as mythological............... = so it is here. 🤔

Y'know, when I watched brights series on the topic, whilst interesting, the whole bit about Atlantis did not click with me that much, however, that whole water slide looking feature in that part of the Sahara did peak my interest like crazy. Anyone got anything I can jump to where I can learn about whatever that is?

Dadgum you went to town on this dude. I watched the video in question and was quite convinced, so I very much appreciate this rebuttal. Good work.

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. - foreword, Solon, My Detailed Notes.

Under 30? You probably believe in Atlantis.

Solon knowing about Atlantis is the plot of an old Macgyver film.lol

The only facts I'm focusing on are the 6K-year gap between the supposed destruction of Atlantis and the earliest evidence of Egyptian writing; and when Athens was actually founded. That's all we need to know.

forms of writing have been discovered dating earlier than the sumerian cuneiform, which for a good while was considered the oldest written language on Earth. complex settlements were discovered to be dating at 7-8000 BCE, with some saying it's up to 10000 BCE. Göbleki Tepe shows layers of constructions... the deeper ones being surprisingly more elaborate than the earlier versions, as if the methods were being forgotten with time. and then there is the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, who made predictions with 85% accuracy without ever asking for any money. surely such a charlatan would have made a fortune at this, lots of ppl would happily believe anything you tell them. among his visions, he mentioned Atlantis, made the connection to Egypt. Now... about the myth of Atlantis, and my take on it: i think 99.98% is just fiction. that is not to say it started out of nothing. some things are too accurate(for the time it was written) and too unlikely for Plato to have know of or even seen with his own eyes. but... since we've recently discovered that Africa has indeed been a lush paradise up until 5000 BCE or so, i'm seeing the theory that the Sphynx is much older than modern day historians generally agree, because i am much more willing to accept the fact that the signs of erosion it has up to its neck show it under water. and it has been discovered that the area was under the Nile around 9000 BCE. so the Sphynx is even older. and the egyptians(the ones we know of) did not build it. so who did? Atlantis did not fight Athens. that is one of the many many many parts of absolute fiction in the myth. just as the greeks did not attack Troy. well... Troy has been discovered though. not THE Troy as depicted for the most part, but A Troy that is placed and fortified and suffered many sieges and was next to the shores and an important trade hub... till the waters receded and made the city pointless. so a truth in all the lie that is the Trojan War does exist. Atlantis must definitely be similar.

Some guy traveled to the Richat structure a few years ago because of this theory. Although there is a village nearby, it is apparently nearly impossible to get to for several reasons. The guy did make it there but it had taken much longer than planned and so he didn't really spend much time there. He didn't find much in that short time other than the rocks there. He just didn't have to time to try to seek out pottery shards or a garbage pit or something valuable like that. I think it would be awesome to go there and really check it out, but it is prohibitively difficult and expensive.

Why, next you'll tell me that Aesop didn't personally witness a lion take pity on a mouse, and the mouse then free the lion from a trap!

Plato's reference to Africa and Asia is not a reference to the modern day Continents, but to the historical regions from where the modern continents derive their names. *EDIT:* I should point out, that I do not believe the Richat Structure has anything to do with Plato's Atlantis, and have previously commented on Bright's videos pointing out his errors.

I've truly enjoyed your video as you tried Bright insights work. I truly enjoyed both the videos, pro and cons. I think you best present a counter argument where you introduce the discrepancy of Athens and the 6k year difference. I do believe if the tale of Atlantis had some basis of Truth to it. As allot of myths do have a point of origin of a basis they're made of. The richat structure would be the best possible fit. Thank you from one who just seeks information and accuracy rather then wastefulness in anger and ill will 🙏🏽