Atlantis

The Antediluvian World

Ignatius Donnelly

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501599963
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Social Sciences

The argument that Plato's Atlantis was a real place from which every civilisation descends, made in 1882 by an American congressman with a great deal of evidence and no restraint. It sold enormously, was believed by many, and is the source of nearly every Atlantis theory since. This edition adds fourteen plates of painting, among them works by Leon Brunin, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield and Knud Bull, and forty-six illustrations restored and coloured.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Atlantis
• The Purpose of the Book.
• Chapter II. Plato’s History of Atlantis.
• Chapter III. The Probabilities of Plato’s Story.
• Chapter IV. Was Such a Catastrophe Possible?
• Destruction of Pompeii
• Calabrian Peasants Ingulfed by Crevasses (1783).
• Fort of Sindee, on the Eastern Branch of the Indus, Before It Was Submerged by the Earthquake of 1819.
• View of the Fort of Sindree from the West in March, 1839.
• Eruption of Vesuvius in 1737.
• Chapter. V. The Testimony of the Sea.
• Map of Atlantis, with Its Islands and Connecting Ridges, from Deep-Sea Soundings
• Ancient Islands Between Atlantis and the Mediterranean, from Deep-Sea Soundings
• Chapter VI. The Testimony of the Flora and Fauna.
• Cereals of the Age of Stone in Europe
• Ancient Irish Pipes
• Ancient Indian Pipe, New Jersey
• Chapter I. The Destruction of Atlantis Described in the Deluge Legends.
• Chapter II. The Deluge of the Bible
• Chapter III. The Deluge of the Chaldeans.
• Chapter IV. The Deluge Legends of Other Nations.
• Map of Europe, After Cosmos
• The Mountain the Sun Goes Behind at Night. Chapter V. The Deluge Legends of America.
• Comparison of Dakota, or Sioux, with Other Languages.
• Chapter VI. Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends.
• The Civilization of the Old World and New Compared. Chapter I. Civilization an Inheritance.
• Chapter II. The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New. Mosaics at Mitla, Mexico
• Carving on the Buddhist Tower, Sarnath, India
• Ancient Irish Vase of the Bronze Age
• Chapter III. American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or Atlantis.
• Elephant Mound, Wisconsin.
• Elephant Pipe, Loisa County, Iowa.
• Mexican Representation of Elephant. Chapter IV. Corroborating Circumstances.
• Negro Idols Found in Mexico.
• Chapter V. The Question of Complexion.
• Governor and Other Indians of the Pueblo of San Domingo, New Mexico.
• Choctaw.
• Shawnees.
• Savonarola.
• The Races of Men According to the Egyptians.
• Chapter VI. Genesis Contains a History of Atlantis
• Ruins of the Temple of Cholula.
• Great Serpent Mound, Ohio.
• Stone Implements of Europe and America
• Chapter VII. The Origin of Our Alphabet
• Chapter VIII. The Bronze Age in Europe.
• Implements and Ornaments of the Bronze Age
• Ornaments of the Bronze Age
• Skulls of the Age of Stone, Denmark
• Celts
• Leaf Shaped Bronze Swords
• Bronze Razor-Knives.
• Ship of William the Conquerer.
• Vases from Mounds in the Mississippi Valley.
• Vases from Switzerland.
• Bronze Hatchets, Switzerland.
• Chapter IX. Artificial Deformation of the Skull.
• Stucco Bas-Relief in the Palace of Palenque.
• Peruvian Skull. Chinook (Flat-Head), After Catlin.
• Heads from Palenque.
• Egyptian Heads.
• The Mythologies of the Old World a Recollection of Atlantis. Chapter I. Traditions of Atlantis.
• Chapter II. The Kings of Atlantis Become the Gods of the Greeks.
• The Empire of Atlantis.
• Poseidon, or Neptune.
• Chapter III. The Gods of the Phoenicians Also Kings of Atlantis.
• Chapter IV. The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan.
• Chapter V. The Pyramid, the Cross, and the Garden of Eden.
• Ancient Irish Cross—Pre-Christian—Kilnaboy.
• Pyramids of Egypt.
• Pyramids of Teotihuacan.
• The Great Mound, Near Miamisburg, Ohio.
• Great Pyramid of Xcoch.
• Chapter VI. Gold and Silver the Sacred Metals of Atlantis.
• The Colonies of Atlantis. Chapter I. The Central American and Mexican Colonies.
• Common Form of Arch, Central America.
• Section of the Treasure-House of Atreus at Mycenae
• Arch of Las Monjas, Palenque, Central America
• Chapter II. The Egyptian Colony.
• Chapter III. The Colonies of the Mississippi Valley
• Grand Way Near Piketon, Ohio.
• Walls at Gran-Chimu, Peru.
• Cross and Pyramid Mound, Ohio.
• From the Mounds of the Ohio Valley
• Chapter IV. The Iberian Colonies of Atlantis
• Chapter V. The Peruvian Colony.
• Owl-Headed Vases, Troy and Peru
• Owl-Headed Vase, Troy
• Chapter VI. The African Colonies.
• Chapter VII. The Irish Colonies from Atlantis.
• The Burgh of Moussa, in the Shetlands
• Round-Tower of the Canyon of the Mancos, Colorado, U.S.
• Chapter VIII. The Oldest Son of Noah.
• Chapter IX. The Antiquity of Some of Our Great Inventions.
• Chinese Magnetic Car
• Ancient Coins of Tyre
• Coin from Central America
• Chapter X. The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis.
• Ancient Egyptian Plough
• Chapter XI. Atlantis Reconstructed.
• About the Author