# Colavito 2018: YouTube Video Claims Atlantis Is Located in the Sahara Desert

> Jason Colavito, 2018. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the critique of the 2018 video: no settlement on or around the structure, a…

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# YouTube Video Claims Atlantis Is Located in the Sahara Desert

Jason Colavito, 2018. _JasonColavito.com_.

A writer on fringe history replies to the 2018 video: no evidence of settlement on or around the structure, a size match that holds only by ignoring the outermost ring, and a misreading of Plato, who has Atlantis sink under the sea and leave a shoal of mud.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for the critique of the 2018 video: no settlement on or around the structure, a measurement that leaves out the outermost ring, and Plato's shoal of mud.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[No city, pottery, walls or engineering works have been reported from the structure](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKVVQTXTE1/no-city-pottery-walls-or-engineering-works-have-been)

Evidence

EVD

[No walls, canals, harbour or other remains of a city have been found on or around the structure](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKT29TSPJF/no-walls-canals-harbour-or-other-remains-of-a-city-have-been)

Evidence

EVD

[The likeness is one of shape: the rings are a natural landform with no human work in them](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKTAERZJCV/the-likeness-is-one-of-shape-the-rings-are-a-natural)

Evidence

EVD

[The size match holds only by ignoring the outermost ring](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKTQYA28T9/the-size-match-holds-only-by-ignoring-the-outermost-ring)

Evidence

EVD

[Bright Insight's video calling the Richat Atlantis spreads across the web and the press](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/events/EVT0DCKR5M68WTR/bright-insights-video-calling-the-richat-atlantis-spreads)

EVT

[The Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

```
Colavito, J. (2018). YouTube Video Claims Atlantis Is Located in the Sahara Desert. JasonColavito.com. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/youtube-video-claims-atlantis-is-located-in-the-sahara-desert
```

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