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I've just read up a few scientific artilcles on the subject. Yes, there were islands present in that region within the last 12, 000 years and would of been sustainable for life. However the problem is the islands were way too small to possibly support the resource demands of a large town, nevermind Atlantis. The only evidence of its existence came from the Soviet Union who said they were searching for Atlantis in the 70's, but they were probably hiding other motives, as was very common during the cold war. (Probably wanted to set up a submarine base there for it's strategic value in location and abnormal low sea depth) Apparently they had found stairs and artifacts, but didn't have any photos or objects taken back with them to prove it.

In fact, the reason scientist and historians tend to put little value in recorded history from the ancient era was how subject it was to exaggeration or bias. There has been countless occurrences of stories changing significantly and becoming more and more exaggerated over time. An example of this would be the story of Noah's ark, that can be traced back to the Sumerian's who had a similar story of a great flood in written record, that was in turn traced back from a Nomadic people who lived in a waterplains that suffered greatly in a flood that we can prove due to sedimentation records. It's easy to see how a historic event of a flood that would of submerged everything that Nomadic group relied on and had ever known, could develop into a story of how the world was flooded, when their story spread through Sumeria and eventually the Arabian peninsula during the emergence of Judaism.

It's likely a similar thing happened with Atlantis, a story of an island town that sunk thousands of years ago, slowly turning into a story of a great civilisation, as it was slowly exaggerated when passed down between generations, before it could be recorded in written record.