[dr_dshiv]

Per legend, it’s past the Mediterranean, past the pillars of Hercules and towards the apples of Hesperides.

Well, Plato clearly thought it was in the Atlantic Ocean, but the legend came via Solon from an Egyptian priest. The whole point of the story was that Athenians didn’t know their own history— as they fought off the Atlantians.

There are a few reasons to believe that it refers to the pillars of Hercules in the Black Sea— and the apples of Hesperides are in the East (first stars seen at night) by the mountains where Atlas held the earth (Caucasus mountains).

Just saying, underwater archaeology in the Black Sea is going to be very, very exciting.