The Story of Atlantis
(See Short's North Americans of Antiquity, Winchell's Pre-Adamites, and Catlin's Indians of North America; see also Atlantis, by Ignatius Donnelly who has collected a great mass of evidence under this and other heads.) We shall see by and by how the diversity of complexion on the American continent is accounted for by the original race-tints on the parent continent of Atlantis.
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis
Ignatius Donnelly argued that the flood myth in the Bible, along with similar legends in Chaldean records and other ancient texts, could be a cultural memory of the catastrophe that submerged Atlantis (5).
Ignatius Donnelly: Author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, he proposed that Atlantis was the source of many ancient technologies and the origin of flood myths, including the Biblical Flood.
Channeled Atlantis: Steiner, Tesla & Cayce
LaFlem highlighted the work of Ignatius Donnelly, a 19th-century congressman, who, in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, claimed that Atlantis was a real place.
September 2024 Update
Ignatius Donnelly's "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World" (1882) - This book popularized the idea of Atlantis as the cradle of civilization, influencing many subsequent theories.
Mound Builders in America
Ignatius Donnelly:
Mummification
In "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World" by Ignatius Donnelly, it is stated that the Egyptians, the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the Peruvians all shared this belief and practiced mummification as a result.
Atlanteans
In the late nineteenth century, “Atlantology,” the study of Atlantis lore, flowered with the publication of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly, an American Congressman.