If people understood that atlants was a fictional creation for thousand of years, what made people start to think that it had once really existed?

Science hasn’t been able to prove or disprove Atlantis ever existed. Moreover, a lot of new discoveries have been made in the last 25 years that prove that humans had advanced cultures at least twice as far back in time as previously believed by science. Just the discovery of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey has over turned the long held scientific tenet that no advanced society could have existed 11,000 years ago as Plato had stated in his Critias and Timaeus dialogues.

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you are a man with glasses with asthma. one, he has glasses so he has four eyes.   two, he has to noses because he uses a inhaler. and three, two hands for a human.