The Atlantis mystery has finally been solved, they've found it in the Eastern Mediterranean using the latest sonar imaging techniques and guess what it's exactly the same size as Plato said it was.
I know this must be true because it was on Richard and Judy and Richard was firmly convinced and we all now what an "open-minded" guy he is. They even had a pretty graphic showing the Mediterranean Sea filling up and covering Atlantis. Not only that, but they had Collin Wilson agreeing as well, so only the most blinkered and hide bound by Western thought patterns would deny it.
As Collin said this would account for the appearance of Egyptian culture as if from nowhere, as the survivors made for the nearest land.

Convinced?

For the less "open-minded" amongst you the following problems with this idea might have come to mind.
1 According to the "Researchers" Plato gives a date of 10,400 years ago for the Atlantis catastrophe, and the Pharaohonic Kingdoms of Egypt don't appear until around 3000 BC.
2 The Mediterranean did flood for the last time through the straits of Gibraltar in a very short period of time maybe as short as 100 years. Unfortunately for the believers this happened around 5,500,000 years ago when the earliest hominids were only just appearing.

An open mind is a good idea, just not so open that your Brain falls out.

PP