QuestionsEye of the Sahara and AtlantisDoes any ancient source put Atlantis in North Africa or the Sahara?Answer
Answer · Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis
Yes: Diodorus's Atlantians of western Libya, by the ocean and Lake Tritonis, are a North African Atlantis
Diodorus describes the Atlantians as the most civilised people of western Libya, living by the ocean near Mount Atlas with great cities, beside a marsh, Tritonis, that vanished in an earthquake; this is an ancient memory of an Atlantis in North Africa.
Where it stands
Still possibleOne piece of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
What it predicts
- Diodorus's account derives from an older, independent tradition rather than from literary invention.
- Lake Tritonis can be located in north-west Africa near the Atlas.
What would rule it out
- Diodorus's source is shown to be a literary romance.
- Ancient writers agree that Tritonis lay far from the Atlas, in Tunisia or Cyrenaica.
Evidence 1 for · 2 against
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The questions it answers
Open3 answers, none ahead
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Yes: Diodorus's Atlantians of western Libya, by the ocean and Lake Tritonis, are a North African Atlantis [Answer ANS0DCP9Q7XFSV7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCP9Q7XFSV7
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author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
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