Now, the Amazons. In South America, burials have been found of warrior women. These were women who carried and used weapons, whose bodies showed the type of wounds a warrior would have, and some were buried as queens. Ruins have also been found that seem to correlate with Plato's story. These ruins, some pyramids, are not Aztec, Maya, Inca, or of any other well-known nation of Central or South America. The discovered male bodies were seemingly thrown without ceremony into the grave, as if the men were slaves or second-class citizens. This was clearly a female-dominated society that apparently was further advanced than your typical hunter-gatherer type of group.
How did the Amazon River get its name? Or for that matter, the Amazon Forest? But we do not know what this particular female-dominated culture called itself. And to this day, over eighty percent of the Amazon Forest remains uncharted. There could be entire native nations living there, with great temples and such, that we've never heard of.
Every researcher or archaeologist I know of goes to Europe or Near-Asia when they search for Amazons. Greece is in Europe; we attribute the story of the Amazons, like the one of Atlantis, to the Greeks. But the story did not come originally from the Greeks. Nor is the story about Greeks. Most seem to overlook that, however.
There were female-dominated societies in Europe, from Russia to Britain to France and Germany. In Russia, the body was found of a woman warrior who, judging from the DNA samples of the bone, would've had blond or red hair and would've stood six feet tall. She was athletically built, muscular in the lean way of a warrior's body. The (true) Amazons, however, living in a tropical climate, and being a race of Native Americans, would've likely been much shorter, with black hair and bronze skin, like the Amazons of today.
Everyone looks to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey. The latter has been called the world's first novel, and is undoubtedly fantasy. Much of what's in the Iliad is fantasy, but there are facts as well (Troy did exist - it is modern-day Turkey - and it was once a great superpower of the Mediterranean; evidence for the war with Greece has grown in the last decade or so). Thus, it could be possible that a tribe of warrior women came to the aid of Troy in the last hours of the war. But they were not Amazons. Perhaps the Greeks heard the name “Amazon” from another source, and then used it as a handle for any woman-warrior tribe they possibly encountered.
According to Plato, but also to the legends of Egypt, the Maya, and others, Atlantis was not a city or an island. They speak of the “Ten Kingdoms of Atlantis,” which means it was nothing short of an empire. Could the Amazons have been one of those kingdoms? Or perhaps an enemy of that empire?
We may never know.
