Atlantis (according to Plato) ~9600 BCEPlato describes a highly advanced civilization that existed 9,000 years before Solon (~600 BCE). This places the destruction of Atlantis around ~9600 BCE.Where this sits. What is recorded is that Plato wrote it. Whether he reported a tradition or invented a parable is interpretation, and scholarship reads it as invention. It sits here because three unrelated sources converge: the Younger Dryas ends at 9,750 BCE, Gobekli Tepe goes up around 9,600 BCE, and Plato's arithmetic gives 9,600 BCE.