SIMCHA: 200 miles from nowhere,
looking for Atlantis.
With James Cameron
on board, it seemed
anything was possible.
JAMES: Pick it apart,
let's be rigorous.
SIMCHA: Now all I have to do
is find the city that most
people say never existed.
Too many dead ends,
must find a way
to connect the dots.
HEYWORTH: That looks
like a boat and if that's
the hull of a boat,
that boat's underwater.
FREUND: In criminal
investigations, you
follow the money.
In archaeology, you
follow the stones.
SIMCHA: The crazy thing is,
it's the same scene over,
and over, and over again.
I think I'm on
to something big.
-All right, here
we go, and action.
I've always been
fascinated by the future.
Can you step back a half
step, but I've also loved
imagining past worlds,
and what the people were like.
-Ahh!
-Okay, move forward slowly.
Look in the second
window just a little
bit as you go by.
When I was in high school,
I was fascinated by ancient
Egypt, by the Greeks,
by the Romans,
and Atlantis
and I think that underneath
this myth, this parable,
there has to be
something historically
that happened, and cut.
SIMCHA: Hi.
-So.
-How you doing, it's good
to see you, just awesome.
-This is my day job.
-It's a good day job.
-So, are we doing this?
-We're doing it,
going after Atlantis.
I've got the boat, I've
got, I've got the divers,
the ROV, the team.
-Oh man, I gotta be
there on that ship.
I've never, not
been on a ship.
-I know you do,
I know you do.
-It's killing me.
-So I know you,
I don't want.
Pull you off, and we
need to strategize, so.
-Yeah, hey Maria,
let's go to lunch?
MARIA: Okay, all right guys,
let's take lunch (inaudible).
-Let's get some maps.
SIMCHA: Everything we
know about this highly debated
topic comes from the Greek
philosopher Plato who
wrote some 2,400 years ago.
In Plato's tale, the
Atlanteans ruled an aggressive
empire stretching from the
Atlantic all the way to
the eastern Mediterranean.
Their capital, Atlantis, was
a port, a unique city made up
of three concentric rings
of land and water.
At its center, there
was a temple to the
god of water, Poseidon,
where the Atlanteans
sacrificed bulls.
There were also incredible
bridges and canals
connecting the various moats
and a central, wide canal
that cut across the city
and linked
the temple with the sea
and it all
came to a terrible end,
in a single day and night,
when earthquakes and
tsunamis destroyed the city,
submerging it
beneath water and mud,
but where is it?
-All right so, where are
we going to go first?
-A picture of a journey.
-Here's, here's Plato, right?
In Athens and he's talking
about a civilization
that, in his words,
spanned the whole region.
So it's a sea
going civilization.
-And they come from
somewhere over here, from
the western Mediterranean.
-Right, right, so
they could be anywhere.
-So what's my mission?
-Investigate some new
hypotheses, investigate the
ones that people tend to find
appealing, pick it apart.
Let's be rigorous.
-I'm looking for the
signs of a common civilization
that dominated the
Mediterranean all the way
to the Atlantic and maybe
this quest will lead to the
legendary Mother
City, Atlantis.
Quite a journey.
-Well you're going to
be, you're going to spend
a lot of time on boats.
-You're the,
you're the boat guy.
I get sea sick.
-Look you could, you
could fly but I think
if you go on a boat,
you'll think the way they
thought back then, and the
distances will mean something
to you, and you'll
understand what it's like to
be part of a trading culture.
-First stop?
-Well, look, I'm very partial
to the Minoans, as you know.
The Minoans were
definitely a sea-going
civilization, one of
the peak civilizations
of its day.
On Crete and on Thira,
1,100 years before Plato,
you've got a city and
it disappeared over night.
-Santorini.
-Yeah, Santorini.
Absolutely, and, and,
uh, why don't we get
Charlie into this?
You know, I mean he wrote, he
wrote the book on Atlantis.
-Charlie.
-Charlie.
Get Charlie, yeah.
SIMCHA: So a few days
later, and with the help
of a few seasickness pills,
I set sail along the Eastern
Mediterranean for the
Greek island of Santorini.
♪ ♪
3,500 years ago this
island looked much
different than today.
It had a round
shape with an opening
leading into the sea,
very similar to Plato's
description of Atlantis.
At that time, Santorini
was inhabited by the
great Minoan civilization,
but everything changed in 1550
BC when the volcano in the
center of the island erupted
with devastating force.
(explosion).
So is Plato describing
Santorini, when
he writes of Atlantis?
To answer this, I meet with
author, Charles Pellegrino.
CHARLES: Nah, this probably
happened post eruption.
SIMCHA: Using drones,
Pellegrino's conducting a
survey of ash layers in the
mouth of the volcano,
in which he's sailing.
-Can we come in closer to
the original grand layer?
SIMCHA: Recreating the
events that led to the
volcano's collapse.
-Behind, is one of
the largest volcanic
calderas in the world.
What existed on this island
before the eruption was a
mountain that was up to about
a mile high, it's all gone.
In the experience of human
history, this would have
been the largest volcanic
explosion, we're talking about
a force that would add up
to more than a million atomic
bombs detonating
right behind me.
(explosion).
SIMCHA: The eruption
went on for days.
A mass of rock, almost
equivalent to Mount Everest,
was blown into the atmosphere.
The sky was darkened for
days and vast areas of the
planet experienced winter,
which lasted two whole years.
The eruption and the
earthquakes that accompanied
it created a mega tsunami,
which reached a height of 800
feet and devastated the coasts
of Crete, Egypt and Turkey.
At the north coast of Crete,
the tsunami destroyed Minoan
coastal towns and obliterated
their massive fleet.
The cloud of ash that spread
from the explosion was so hot
that people who stood on the
shores of Crete disintegrated
as the cloud hit them.
Egyptian writings from that
time describe a huge shockwave
that destroyed houses,
temples and parts
of the pyramids.
-This event was so huge that
there is no way that the
civilizations of the time,
especially in the
Mediterranean, would have
failed to notice it and
mention it in their oral
and written history.
SIMCHA: So was the eruption
of Santorini the cataclysmic
event in Plato's story?
Are the Minoans the
long lost Atlanteans?
I travel with Charlie to
the only Minoan archaeological
site still standing
on the Island, the
Minoan city of Akrotiri.
It seems to match Plato's
description of a very advanced
Bronze Age civilization.
I'm amazed that we're
walking next to buildings
that are three-story high.
-Yes.
-And what, what,
35, 3,600 years old?
-Yes.
-The streets
are not that narrow, you've
got openness, open windows.
I can see people's
homes, they're more
or less the same so,
it's an egalitarian society.
-These buildings are
built with a certain degree of
earthquake resistance in mind.
In fact, you can see.
-Wait, wait,
wait a minute.
You're saying that these
people are building earthquake
resistant buildings?
-Very similar to some of
the designs that we're
developing in Japan
and in the United States.
-Today?
-During the 20th century
-Oh my God!
-As amazing as these
multi-story buildings are,
it's what's underneath them.
-What do you mean?
-Toilets, the plumbing that
runs through these buildings
is of a sort that we didn't
start seeing again, briefly
during the Roman period,
but in our own time,
not until 200, 300 years ago.
If, for example,
at the time of the American
Revolution in Philadelphia,
even at the palace in Paris,
uh, these toilets were the
stairwells and the streets
themselves, you could
smell Paris or Philadelphia
from two miles away.
-And here, 3,600 years
ago, these people have amazing
architecture, high technology,
flush toilets,
3,600 years ago!
We have aqueducts, hygiene,
open society, egalitarian, and
it's all destroyed overnight.
-Yes, yes.
-Is this Atlantis?
-I would say to
a 99% probability
that this is a part of
what Plato was writing
about in his story of Atlantis.
SIMCHA: So the Minoans were
a highly advanced civilization
that vanished due to a natural
disaster, but is this
enough to say that they
were the Atlanteans?
I'm not sure so I
check in with the boss.
JAMES (through computer):
Simcha, hey, so why are you
calling me?
You miss me already or
did something go wrong?
Did you sink the boat?
-Nothing, nothing went
wrong, no boat sinking.
Uh, I did spent some time with
Charlie on Santorini, and I
wanted to report back because,
you know, in many ways
it's very convincing.
It's a high technology.
It was destroyed pretty much
overnight, but Plato says they
came from the West and they
were aggressive, and the
Minoans were in the East, and
they were actually peaceful,
and the other thing that
really bothers me, even
though I think that, uh,
Santorini is part of the
story, Plato never describes
a volcanic eruption.
It's more like he's describing
tsunamis, and earthquake,
and sinking, and mud.
JAMES (through computer):
This gets to the kind of
the fundamental question of
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