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Discussed at great length as the single most influential book on Atlantis after Plato's own writings. Published in 1882, Donnelly argued that Atlantis was a real place in the Atlantic where civilization originated, that gods of various mythologies were Atlantean kings, and that survivors colonized both the Americas and Europe/Africa. The hosts detail his specific claims about races, religions, alphabets, and metallurgy, noting that Graham Hancock's modern thesis is essentially Donnelly's framework updated.