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...about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sunken City | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...hills. On the bottom of the Indian Ocean they discovered two great mountain chains, with a deep valley between, and in one place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lemuria? | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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