Atlantis as Thankslive

In 18 31, ignatius donnelly was an american politician and writer who single handedly began the modern craze around the search for atlantis. Donnelly is a part of a long string of dilettantes and pseudo archaeologists that wished to go against the claims of orthodox intelligencia. In his book, atlantis, the antediluvian world, he asserted that plato's story was, in fact, not a fabrication, but actually a true story,. documenting the original homeland of all human civilization. All owe their heritage, according to donnelly, to an incredibly advanced and ancient society located on a now sunken continent in the atlantic.