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A review by rschmidt7
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly
2.0
This is the book that apparently ignited a lot of the interest in Atlantis. I have always been fascinated by the ancient world, the mystery of forgotten ages and crumbling ruins. I should have skipped this book though. If you want something pseudoscientific about an ancient civilization, read "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Graham Hancock instead.
"Atlantis" was repetitious, rambling, and lacking cohesion. A lot of interesting information presented - too much probably - but it never seems to come together in any meaningful way beyond, "Atlantis did it all." This is frustrating because there are a lot of startling similarities across cultures around the world that bear investigating. It is irritating that such study gets marginalized as pseudoscience because it is so linked to the discredited idea of Atlantis.
I don't believe in Atlantis, but there is certainly enough evidence to provoke thoughts that there may have been a proto-civilization of some kind that has been lost to the ages. When you think that the whole span of recorded history is about 6000 years and science now tells us that modern humans have existed for 200,000 years, it really makes you wonder what was going on for those 194,000 years for which we have no records.
"Atlantis" was repetitious, rambling, and lacking cohesion. A lot of interesting information presented - too much probably - but it never seems to come together in any meaningful way beyond, "Atlantis did it all." This is frustrating because there are a lot of startling similarities across cultures around the world that bear investigating. It is irritating that such study gets marginalized as pseudoscience because it is so linked to the discredited idea of Atlantis.
I don't believe in Atlantis, but there is certainly enough evidence to provoke thoughts that there may have been a proto-civilization of some kind that has been lost to the ages. When you think that the whole span of recorded history is about 6000 years and science now tells us that modern humans have existed for 200,000 years, it really makes you wonder what was going on for those 194,000 years for which we have no records.