The enormous tsunami thought to have destroyed the legendary lost city of Atlantis could have been caused by lava, a new theory suggests. Experts believe material from the volcanic eruption on ...

The volcanic explosion that obliterated much of the island that might have inspired the Atlantis legend apparently triggered a tsunami that traveled to reach as far as present-day Israel ...

A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago, in mud flats in southern Spain.

All the news about devastating tsunamis is drawing greater attention to a new claim that researchers have found the lost city of Atlantis — buried in mud on the southern tip of Spain. Scientists ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) - A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud ...

Several more reasonable classical scholars have put forth the idea that the island of Helike had served as inspiration for ...

The trigger for the tsunami was a landslide named Storegga, where 3,000 cubic km of sediment collapsed in the North Sea. “That’s a lot of sediment,” says Dr Hill.

How a giant tsunami devastated Britain’s Atlantis. The 6,200BC cataclysm may have drowned up to a quarter of the population, archaeologists say ...

Scientists say they have discovered Atlantis, the legendary island and mighty military power destroyed by a tsunami 11,000 years ago, in mudflats in southern Spain. The site claimed by lead ...

Malta is a front-runner for the location of Atlantis because it has many ancient temples (such as Hagar Qim, above), and its culture was destroyed by a tsunami and earthquake. Photograph by W.A ...

3,600-year-old tsunami ‘time capsule’ sheds light on one of humanity’s greatest disasters. The volcanic eruption of Santorini rocked the Mediterranean and changed history.