a confused recollection of real historical events. That the mythology of Egypt and Peru represented the original religion of Atlantis, which was sun-worship. That the oldest colony formed by Atlantis was probably Egypt, whose civilization was a reproduction of that Atlantic island. That the implements of the "Bronze Age" of Europe were derived from Atlantis. The Atlanteans were also the first manufacturers of iron. That the Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis alphabet, which was also conveyed by them from Atlantis to the Mayans of Central America. That Atlantis was the original seat of the Aryan or Indo-European family of nations, as well as of the Semitic peoples, and possibly also of the Turanian races. That Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature, in which the whole island sunk into the ocean, with nearly all its inhabitants. That a few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds. Legacy In 1883, a sequel or companion, Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, was published. Donnelly's work on Atlantis inspired books by James Churchward on the lost continent of Mu, also known as Lemuria. More recently, his theories have influenced the visions of Edgar Cayce, creation of the superhero Namor the Sub-Mariner, the 1969 pop song "Atlantis" by Donovan, the 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the plot of the 2009 film 2012 by Roland Emmerich. Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods proposes, like Donnelly, that civilizations in Egypt and the Americas had a common origin in a civilization lost to history, although in Hancock's book the civilization was not located in the northern Atlantic. See also The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis Fingerprints of the Gods References Further reading External links Entire text in HTML format from the Internet Sacred Text Archive Entire text in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg Entire scanned text from the Internet Archive 1882 non-fiction books Books about Atlantis Pseudoarchaeological texts Harper & Brothers books