# Herodotus's Atlantes are a Libyan people named after Mount Atlas, with no island and no flood

> Herodotus, writing before Plato, describes the Atlantes as a people living by a hill of salt on the Libyan ridge, named after Mount Atlas, "the pillar of…

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# Herodotus's Atlantes are a Libyan people named after Mount Atlas, with no island and no flood

Herodotus, writing before Plato, describes the Atlantes as a people living by a hill of salt on the Libyan ridge, named after Mount Atlas, "the pillar of heaven"; he says nothing of an island, a sea or a catastrophe.

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[No: every ancient writer reviewed here who places Plato's Atlantis puts it in the Atlantic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9PXMGWYE/no-every-ancient-writer-reviewed-here-who-places-platos)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Herodotus's Atlantes are a Libyan people named after Mount Atlas, with no island and no flood [Evidence EVD0DCPB8KZ8VPY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPB8KZ8VPY
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