Atlantis Found? Ancient Ruins in Baltic Sea Could Be Lost City

More than 2,000 years ago, Plato talked about a mythical island in one of his dialogues, Timaeus.

"For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end."

"This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together."

"Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia."

Although many historians and researchers have offered conjectures on where the island may be, the exact site of the legendary Atlantis remains unknown. However, a recent discovery may very well change that.

The Daily Mail reported that Swedish divers have found "a rare collection of Stone Age artefacts buried deep beneath the Baltic Sea."

The team was led by Soderton University's Bjorn Nilsson and a team from Lunds University in an archaeological dive they made at Hano, which is off the coast of Skane County, Sweden, Yahoo! News also said.

"Around 11,000 years ago there was a build-up in the area - a lagoon of sorts - and all the tree and bone pieces are preserved in it," Nilsson explained to The Local. "If the settlement was on dry land we would only have the stone-based things, nothing organic."

The said relics were so well preserved that the discovered site has been named "Sweden's Atlantis." It was also suggested that the area may have been swallowed by the sea in the same way as Atlantis.

So this is not Atlantis then?

Meanwhile, the Soderton University professor has dismissed suggestions that the find is "Sweden's Atlantis" because the Swedes during that time was still nomadic.

The speculation on the real Atlantis continues.