Atlantis has been found and explained! North America and Atlantis are one and the same? Plato’s Story of Atlantis went through a few language changes before it was published. According to Plato’s version of Atlantis, the story was copied from a temple in Egypt. No one is perfect, so what if the person writing the story onto the walls of the temple made mistakes in this first translation? A Greek statesmen name Solon went to Egypt and stayed for ten years. While in Egypt, he copied the story from the walls of the temple. What if he made mistakes?