Lost city of Atlantis may have existed on Moroccan coast

A German computer whiz has recently claimed that legendary lost city of Atlantis may have existed on the coastline of Morocco.

Michael Hubner has come up with the hypothesis that the "sunken" metropolis was, in fact, only sunken briefly by a tsunami wave, which wreaked colossal destruction before receding back to the sea, News.com.au reported.

Hubner believed what remains of the ruins of the ancient city are, in fact, sitting in plain sight above the Atlantic on the dry, crumbly coastline of Morocco.

Hubner's above-the-waves hypothesis was what author Mark Adams called "the most convincing on paper" of the handful of theories he chased down in his new book 'Meet Me in Atlantis.'

Plato's 51 clues included a location near the sea; a location outside the "Pillars of Heracles", which many believe to be Gibraltar; the presence of elephants; mountains to its north; a ringlike structure of the city; and most importantly it had to be within roughly 5000km from Athens. (This distance Hubner chose using the yardstick of Alexander the Great's farthest military campaigns.) This circle with Athens at its centre covered most of Europe, Africa above the equator and the Middle East.

The German applied these 51 variables into a computer program using a map overlaid with a grid of 400 subareas. The more variables that matched any one set of geographic coordinates, the more likely that particular mini-square revealed the location of Atlantis.

When the points were tallied, one of Hubner's 400 squares stood out: a spot on the Morocco coastline about 160km south of Marrakesh known as the Souss-Massa plain.