Message #218159

[Mabinogen]

9. 10,000 BC (2008)

Just a brief cameo for Atlantis in this historical-fantasy blockbuster by Roland Emmerich – the same master-of-disaster behind 2012 – which was so eagerly and deservingly pilloried by critics, not least for its catalogue of historical and archeological inaccuracies.

Bad guy The Almighty – a living god who is hard at work whipping his army of slaves into building the pyramids in Egypt (more than 7,300 years ahead of schedule, it should be added) – is described as being the last survivor of an extinct master-race that sank into the sea, i.e. the inhabitants of Atlantis. This is hinted at again later in the film by a scene which briefly shows a map depicting a large island in the middle of the Atlantic.