The Sun has found the fabled sunken city of Atlantis. For 12,000 years man has wondered what happened to the lost civilisation, described as having been lost by earthquake and floods.

Top philosopher, Plato, said it was located in the ‘real sea’ – which some have interpreted as the Atlantic and not the Med, Plato’s home waters.

Now Sun reporter Virginia Wheeler has found it. Or at least a peculiar network of lines on Google Ocean apparently lying 3.5 miles beneath the Atlantic on the sea bed 620 miles off Africa.

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