Nazi propaganda had harness ed the myth of Atlantis for a deadly intent. But across the Atlantic, myth makers of an entirely different thought were also reinventing Atlantis as pure fantasy - Hollywoo...
This documentary film lost in the German archives played to packed audiences in German movie theaters in 1933. Not wanting to dispel the illusion of a great find, the archeologists remained evasive ab...
Published in the 1930s, the novels of Edmund Kiss told the story of how in the long forgotten past, an ice moon from deep space had collided with the earth, bringing with it the seed of Aryan man. Nat...
From the moment the Nazis seized power in Germany in1933. They inaugurated a series of quests in search of fabulous objects and places from mankind's earliest myths. The lost Ark of the Covenant, the...
In 1888, Blavatsky wrote a book called the Secret Doctrine, in which she attempted to establish the principles of Theosophy or God Wisdom that the cosmic masters had impart ed to her. Blavatsky cited...
With her air of cultivated mystery, her almost incomprehensible Russian accent, and her outlandish behavior, Madam Blavatsky soon became one of the stars of the New York seance scene, revealing to her...
Letters of congratulations arrived from all over the world, including one marked only Ignatius Donnelly, America. To Donnelly’s astonishment, it came from William Gladstone, prime minister of the Br...
Here in his study in Minnesota, Ignatius Donnelly, a failed politician, wrote one of the greatest best-sellers of his age, making him the founding father of the modern hunt for a real Atlantis. His id...
When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1799, he took with him the largest collection of scholars ever to accompany a military campaign. The finds and discoveries made by Napoleon's archaeologists generated a...
Don Carlos Sigüenza was the first Atlantis seeker to search for physical proof of the lost continent, but he was not alone in wanting to cast new light on an ancient legend. Across the ocean in 17th...