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    This document is the introduction to a history of Atlantis. It explains that writing a history of Atlantis is uniquely challenging because the land itself is now underwater, so archaeologists cannot directly examine the soil and remains of its civilization. We would know less about ancient Rome if the Italian peninsula had sunk beneath the sea after Rome fell. For Atlantis, we must piece together what we can from its colonial influences on other cultures and the traditions those cultures retained after Atlantis disappeared. Reconstructing Atlantis's history from these scattered remnants is an immensely difficult task compared to studying a civilization on habitable land.

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    This document is the introduction to a history of Atlantis. It explains that writing a history of Atlantis is uniquely challenging because the land itself is now underwater, so archaeologists cannot directly examine the soil and remains of its civilization. We would know less about ancient Rome if the Italian peninsula had sunk beneath the sea after Rome fell. For Atlantis, we must piece together what we can from its colonial influences on other cultures and the traditions those cultures retained after Atlantis disappeared. Reconstructing Atlantis's history from these scattered remnants is an immensely difficult task compared to studying a civilization on habitable land.

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    This document is the introduction to a history of Atlantis. It explains that writing a history of Atlantis is uniquely challenging because the land itself is now underwater, so archaeologists cannot directly examine the soil and remains of its civilization. We would know less about ancient Rome if the Italian peninsula had sunk beneath the sea after Rome fell. For Atlantis, we must piece together what we can from its colonial influences on other cultures and the traditions those cultures retained after Atlantis disappeared. Reconstructing Atlantis's history from these scattered remnants is an immensely difficult task compared to studying a civilization on habitable land.

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    THE

    HISTORY OF ATLANTIS
    CHAPTER 1
    INTRODUCTORY

    A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS must differ from all other histories, for the
    fundamental reason that it seeks to record the chronicles of a country the soil of
    which is no longer available for examinations to the archaeologist. If, through
    some cataclysm of nature, the Italian peninsula had been submerged in the green
    waters of the Mediterranean at period subsequent to the fall of Rome, we would
    still have been in possession of much documentary evidence concerning the growth
    and ascent of the Roman Empire. At the same time, the soil upon which that
    empire flourished, the ponderable remains of its civilization and its architecture,
    would have been for ever lost to us save as regards their colonial manifestations.
    We should, in a great measure, have been forced to glean our ideas of Latin pre-
    eminence from those institutions which it founded in other lands, and from those
    traditions of it which remained at the era of its disappearance among the unlettered
    nations surrounding it.

    But great as would be the difficulties attending such an enterprise, these


    would, indeed, be negligible when compared with the task of groping through the
    mists of the ages in quest of the outlines of chronicle and event which tell of a
    civilization plunged into the

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