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The Mystery of Helike | The Greek City Swallowed by the Sea

In 373 BCE, the prosperous Greek city of Helike vanished in a single night. A powerful earthquake struck the Gulf of Corinth, followed by a massive tsunami that swallowed the city and its people.

Ancient writers like Pausanias, Strabo, and Aelian later described how survivors claimed the sea boiled and roared before Poseidon himself destroyed Helike - a disaster so profound it inspired myths of divine punishment. Centuries later, Plato’s dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias”, written around 360 BCE, told of another great civilization lost beneath the waves - Atlantis. Could these two stories be connected?

Modern archaeologists, beginning in the 1990s, unearthed Helike’s ruins buried in coastal sediment near Achaea, revealing temples, coins, and roads frozen in time.

This documentary follows the search for evidence linking Helike to Plato’s Atlantis - where myth, geology, and history meet beneath the sea.

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