CARTOGRAPHY Table with collegatori map and bridges from "Atlantis; the antediluvian world"; treaty of the American Ignatius published Donnelly in 1882. According to Donnelly; Atlantis was the Biblical Terrestrial Paradise and here the first civilizations had been developed. Its inhabitants had scattered themselves in America; Europe and Asia; its king and its Queens had become the goddesses of the ancient religions. ; Approximately then thirteen thousand years ago; the entire continent was submergeeed by a cataclysm of vulcanica origin. In support of its thesis; Donnelly adduced the described cultural analogies over; and some geologic test.