Ignatius Donnelly

Atlantis, the Antediluvian World

Long known as the classic work on the study of Atlantis, the author puts forth the idea that this was the true place where civilization began. The great philosopher, Plato, mentioned Atlantis, which is said to have been a great civilization that had sunk into the sea and disappeared.

Table of contents

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