Atlantis Destroyed

An abandoned town in the Nevada desert are the ruins of an American Atlantis, destroyed by catastrophic floods when the Hoover Dam was built; today, experts investigate the secrets of this eerie ghost town as water levels recede and the city reemerges.

This documentary attempts to make history by finding once and for all the lost city of Atlantis. Adventurer-geologist Dr. Martin Pepper sets out to prove his theory–that the true Atlantis existed on the Greek island of Santorini, and was destroyed in the biggest volcanic eruption in human history. He will use new scientific evidence–gathered using sonar scans of the sea bed, and microscopic analysis of the ancient landscape. But he must also match Santorini to a series of key clues embedded in the first-ever description of Atlantis by the Greek philosopher Plato–from the lost city's strange ring-shaped design to the role Egyptian priests played in recording the legend in the first place. …