That's a very HN take on a tale of what might be a real life near-Atlantis! For me, the thing I love about the classics is that people are still people, just wi

That's a very HN take on a tale of what might be a real life near-Atlantis! For me, the thing I love about the classics is that people are still people, just with a lot less knowledge of science and engineering than we have, a lot more knowledge of things we are trying to discover about them, and a rather different moral philosophy. The fact that neighbouring villages sent scouts to investigate the disappearance and discussed it at length is interesting, for example -- some times the deaths of thousands warrant at most a cursory sentence along the lines of "Thebes was plagued". The geography really has moved a surprising amount since those days too -- e.g. Rome's ancient harbour is now decidedly inland. I wonder if a combined large-scale geophysical search together with airborne ground penetrating radar is remotely feasible over the sort of huge area they might consider.