Atlantis, the Antidiluvian World
Ignatius Donnelly

For a thousand years it was believed that the legends of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were myths: they were spoken of as "the fabulous cities." For a thousand years the educated world did not credit the accounts given by Herodotus to the wonders of the ancient civilizations of the Nile and of Chaldea. He was called "the father of liars." Even Plutarch sneered at him. Now, in the language of Frederick Schlegel, "the deeper and more comprehensive the researches of the moderns have been, the more their regard and esteem for Herodotus has increased." Buckle says, "His minute information about Egypt and Asia Minor is admitted by all geographers."

There was a time when the expedition sent out by Pharaoh Necho to circumnavigate Africa was doubted, because the explorers stated that after they had progressed a certain distance the sun was north of them; this circumstance, which then aroused suspicion, now proves to us that the Egyptian navigators had really passed the equator, and anticipated by 2100 years Vasquez de Gama in his discovery of the Cape of Good Hope.

If I succeed in demonstrating the truth of the somewhat startling propositions with which I commenced this chapter, it will only be by bringing to bear upon the question of Atlantis a thousand converging lines of light from a multitude of researches made by scholars in different fields of modern thought.

Table of Contents

Part I: The History of Atlantis
1. The Purpose of the Book
2. Plato's History of Atlantis
3. The Probabilities of Plato's Story
4. Was Such a Catastrophe Possible?
5. The Testimony of the Sea
6. The Testimony of the Flora and Fauna

Part II: The Deluge
1. The Destruction of Atlantis Described in the Deluge Legends
2. The Deluge of the Bible
3. The Deluge of the Chaldeans
4. The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
5. The Deluge Legends of America
6. Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends

Part III: The Civilization of the Old World and New Compared
1. Civilization an Inheritance
2. The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
3. American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or Atlantis
4. Corroborating Circumstances
5. The Question of Complexion
6. Genesis Contains a History of Atlantis
7. The Origin of Our Alphabet
8. The Bronze Age in Europe
9. Artificial Deformation of the Skull

Part IV: The Mythologies of the Old World a Recollection of Atlantis
1. Traditions of Atlantis
2. The Kings of Atlantis Become the Gods of the Greeks
3. The Gods of the Phoenicians also Kings of Atlantis
4. The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan
5. The Pyramid, the Cross, and the Garden of Eden
6. Gold and Silver the Sacred Metals of Atlantis

Part V: The Colonies of Atlantis
1. The Central American and Mexican Colonies
2. The Egyptian Colony
3. The Colonies of the Mississippi Valley
4. The Iberian Colonies of Atlantis
5. The Peruvian Colony
6. The African Colonies
7. The Irish Colonies from Atlantis
8. The Oldest Son of Noah
9. The Antiquity of Some of Our Great Inventions
10. The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis
11. Atlantis Reconstructed

551 pages, 5.5 x 8, Paperback, Illustrated

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