Some believe that Atlantis was a civilization located in the area now known as the Black Sea, which was once a great freshwater lake, and possibly the home of Indo-European civilization. Some Indo-European linguists theorize that the original Indo-European language is considered to have broken up into daughter languages between about 5000 and 4000BC, which corresponds to the recent archaeological evidence of a deluge of an existing civilization occurring around 5500BC.

Doomsday Jones, contributing writer and editor of What? Magazine, espoused this theory in 1978 in her story, "Tales of the Serpent Isle," published in early issues of What? Magazine. This epic focused on the survivors of a great deluge that all but destroyed the once-powerful kingdom whose heart was the Serpent Isle. These survivors became the founders of the Indo-European civilization that reached from India to Ireland, whose rituals are still practiced today in the form of Celtic, Lithuanian, Norse and Vedic fire festivals. Recently, she has uncovered other theories that correspond with her own unique twist on the destruction of Atlantis. Below is just a sampling...

Atlantis in the Black Sea - In 1997, American Marine-Geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan published the scientific evidence that today’s Black Sea used to be a freshwater-lake. Its shoreline then was approximately 350 feet below today’s level of the global ocean. By dating fresh- and saltwater shells with the C14 method they discovered that the salinity of the lake changed rapidly from fresh to salty around 5500 BC.

"Atlantis - the Indoeuropean Capital in the Black Sea" at the International Atlantis Conference, Milos, Greece, 2006:
     Presentation "Atlantis in the Black Sea " (.pdf)
     Summary: Conference Proceedings (.pdf)
     [Ulf Richter] Atlantis was in a River Delta (.pdf)

Atlantis und die Sintflut ("Atlantis in the Black Sea") - presenting the theory, that Atlantis was a late stone age (Neolithic or Chalcolithic) settlement in today’s northwest of the Black Sea . It was drowned 5510 BC when the ocean flooded the freshwater lake that existed before the Black Sea .

An Abrupt Drowning of the Black Sea Shelf - Scientific evidence gathered by Pitman and Ryan which suggests that the permanent drowning of a vast terrestrial landscape (around the Black Sea) may possibly have accelerated the dispersal of early neolithic foragers and farmers into the interior of Europe at that time.

Ballard and the Black Sea - In 2000 American explorer Robert Ballard found traces of ancient habitation beneath the Black Sea during a National Geographic expedition. Ballard reports, "We have also found and photographed stone tools, possibly a chisel or an axe, and ceramic storage vessels, all untouched since the flooding of the Black Sea."

The Noah Project - In 2004 Bulgarian Marine-Geologists Petko Dimitrov and Dimitar Dimitrov published the result of their studies under the Black Sea Research Program "Noah," which confirm Pitman and Ryan's data.

The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus - by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden. A reprint of the 1923 classic which identifies the Atlantis-Black Sea connection, later confirmed by Pitman and Ryan's discoveries in 1997.

Flood Stories from Around the World - A summary of flood stories from world folklore.

Atlantis Rising has a lively forum concerning "Atlantis in the Black Sea." After reading the above links, you may want to post your own opinions here, and read what others have posted. (I have only one more semester of Ancient Greek to go before I can start reading primary sources like Plato and Herodotus myself. Then I'll have plenty more to say about the subject. - DDay).