In 1882, a Minnesota writer and politician named Ignatius Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, perhaps the most popular work of pseudo-science of the 19th century. Its opening pages ...

LOST ATLANTIS — James Bramwell — Harper ($2.75). Ignatius Donnelly was known in his own day as the foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume ...

The drowned city of Atlantis has captivated mankind across the centuries, as a utopian naval empire of demigods with advanced technologies that ruled the entire known western world. The legendary city ...

In 1882 one unlikely Minnesota published a book on a certain lost city that garnered worldwide interest and led to many modern-day concepts of this mysterious land. Populist politician turned theorist ...

It was the philosopher Plato who first wrote about the island of Atlantis, which was said to have disappeared into the ocean after falling out of favour with the gods. "It's clear that Plato made up ...