THE LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS Natalie Hyde CRABTREE Publishing Company www crabtreebooks com
Atlantis Looking into the Past Professor Richard Freund bent over the satellite photo Beneath the mud he could clearly see the shape of wide rings There was another shape in the middle of the rings It looked like a rectangle Could this be the remains of a building People have been trying to find the lost island of Atlantis for centuries but was it ever real 4
Lost Atlantis Freund looked at his fellow scientists Were they the rings of land and sea described in the legends Was the rectangle the remains of a temple to the god Poseidon Was the whole thing covered in mud because of a tsunami If Freund’s questions were true then his team may have just found the lost city of Atlantis Poseidon was the ancient Greek god of the sea In pictures he is often shown carrying a long fork with three prongs called a trident He was said to use this weapon to cause earthquakes tsunami a huge sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake 5 ATLANTIS
