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Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a pseudoarchaeological book published in 1882 by the Minnesotapopulist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and suggested that all known ancient civilizations were descended from this lost land through a process of hyperdiffusionism.