It is still a myth as far as our modern civilization is concerned, Atlantis located somewhere within the devil's triangle and it's inhabitants had struck down many planes and vessels daring to disturb the peace. Without resorting to magic how can Atlantis disappear from the sonar? (Answer with most primitive tech wins.)
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Reasonably, an underwater city would not particularly look like the cities we are familiar with and would not be recognized as a settlement unless someone goes and looks at with Mark II Eyeball.

They would have no interest in roads. So there would be no easily discernible grid. Transport and travel would then happen above the buildings using some sort of flotation devices and draft animals. Always available "water transport" beats roads.

In modern times these would probably be replaced by vehicles. If the atlanteans can breathe down there no hard, acoustically reflective pressurized hull is needed, so making the vehicles stealthy should not be particularly hard.

With no need for roads and vastly reduced level of fire hazards buildings would be built wall-to-wall. Bulk transport within the city could be then handled by connecting the buildings. If you have horizontal channels or rings with one-way traffic you can make the water move and cargo transport becomes a matter of putting stuff into the channel and taking them out from it. Speed would be limited, but a system like this could have very large cargo capacity.

The system might work well enough that there is no need to transport cargo over the city. At that point you'd have lots of small ventilation holes and closed (sharks not welcome) vehicle hatches.

If the buildings of the city were of roughly same height this would look like a featureless plain to sonar as long as the atlanteans do not use metal construction on top.

The city would then only be visible at the edges where the buildings rise above their surroundings. This would probably be fairly simple to hide by just letting detritus from the construction accumulate against the walls. Additionally there is no real need to make the buildings that high. The good economics of water transport and lack of city walls would allow the city to spread and significant part of the height of the buildings might be below the level of the surface. I think it would blend naturally unless someone specifically looks.

So even without particular effort to hide from sonar, a realistic underwater city might be entirely invisible to sonar by virtue of being entirely different. No tech beyond neolithic (city building) required.
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You **already** need magic or very advanced technology to justify a city existing **underwater**. However, given that Atlanteans somehow either have or don't need air...

* Once submerged, the city might have just decayed away - it wasn't built of stone but of unbaked clay bricks or organic matter. The Atlanteans now live in smaller structures that sonar can't resolve.
* The submersion was slow enough that those Atlanteans as didn't want to simply relocate, and saw the futility of building taller and taller structures above ground, built instead deeper and stronger abodes below what is now the sea floor.
* They might have their city covered, naturally or artificially, with a sound-reflecting layer that mimics the sea-floor (for insulating purposes, for example: several thermal insulators are also good sound insulators). They might not even be aware of this effect, unless informed by friendly cetaceans (if they were, could we say they did this on *porpoise*?)

Atlanteans still can hit ships with colossal bubbles of methane, that have the same effect on a ship as a torpedo (they make the supporting water underneath disappear, so that the ship's weight cracks the vessel in the middle). Additionally, a delayed fuse can turn the bubble into a fuel-air bomb, capable of taking down a plane if it flies low enough.

The problem, possibly requiring magic, is now *how they know that there are ships and even planes above*, and where very exactly they are and how fast they're going - it takes time for a methane torpedo to hit.