Atlantis, the Antediluvian World

I actually thought this was a fun read. The author presented a lot of information from many resources in order to postulate the existence of Atlantis. Atlantis was assumed to exist in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and was destroyed in the Earth's great flood, the deluge. The only remnants of its......more

One of the ongoing debates in the study of prehistory, ancient history and the history of religions has to do with the origin of symbols, life-ways and artifacts. When there are similarities, does this mean transmission from one culture to another, an archetypal substratum common to the species or m......more

I disagreed with quite a lot of Donnelly’s arguments, but that’s not really why this book gets quite the average rating. It was an interesting read, with some points that made clear connections between the human race’s early ancestors. Yes, the author is clearly very intrigued by ancient history and......more

Published in the 19th century, this book posits that Atlantis was the seat of the biblical Garden of Eden, that all of the flood myths actually refer to the sinking of Atlantis (which was where Plato said it was: a continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean), and that it was the first and most ad......more

We'll written pseudohistorical pseudoscience. Read only if you plan on writing an atlantean science fiction fantasy.......more