Video frames Atlantis as an Ice Age civilization destroyed ~12,000 years ago

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• The video summarizes the Atlantis belief as a technologically advanced civilization existing roughly 20,000 to 12,000 years ago, able to build monuments on the scale of the Great Pyramid of Giza, sail the oceans and know the globe's size and the Earth's procession
• Believers in this scenario hold that the civilization was destroyed in a worldwide cataclysm, most likely a flood, between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago
• The presenter notes this claimed flood date matches the date Plato gives for the destruction of Atlantis, and says some people in antiquity, especially Roman times, believed Atlantis existed or was plausible
• The presenter says scholarship on Plato has produced substantial evidence that the Atlantis story is allegorical, and that treating it as a straightforward historical account 'cannot hold' without heavy editing
• Plato's account is described as a 'vast island' whose destruction he dated to about 12,000 years ago
• The presenter argues the modern lost-civilization idea would have died a century ago if evidence, rather than rhetoric, were the deciding factor

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