image creditGeologists have announced the discovery of what has been dubbed the 'Brazilian Atlantis', some 900 miles from Rio. The legend of Atlantis, a sunken island thought to have once lay between Africa and South America, has been the subject of literary myths for centuries. But geologists in Brazil have now added their claims to speculation over the precise location of the mysterious land mass, mentioned first by Plato in around 360BC.
Working with scientists from Japan, experts believe they have found evidence of a continent that disappeared after Africa and South America separated, 900 miles from the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The discovery of granite, a rock formed on dry land, was announced by the Geology Service of Brazil as a sign of a lost continent.
