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Mar 2023

10m 23s

The Lost City of Atlantis

BEDTIME HISTORY

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Learn about the mysterious civilization written about by Plato and the search to find the ruins of the lost city. In the episode, we ask the big question of whether Atlantis was real or just a myth.

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