Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

About this book

Ignatius Donnelly believed Atlantis held the missing key to ancient history. He searches for a drowned civilisation in Egyptian monuments, American myths, European languages and stories of a great flood.

Beginning with Plato, Donnelly assembles a vast argument that distant peoples inherited their customs from a common prehistoric source. Plants, alphabets, pyramids and religious traditions all become possible clues. Archaeologists have found no evidence for the lost civilisation he imagined. Yet his book shows how the story of Atlantis grew into a sweeping modern theory of world history.