When Ignatius Donnelly published his 1882 book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, a new wave of scholars, conspiracy theorists, and believers developed an interest in the fabled lost city.

The issue of when Atlantis supposedly existed has a huge impact on identifying it with a real civilisation. What does the ...

In this poem, he suggested that indigenous peoples in the Americas were descendants of the people who had survived the destruction of Atlantis. The legendary drowned island of Atlantis 2.