Plato, Timaeus & Critias
The original Atlantis account — the single ancient text every modern claim ultimately traces back to.
Read it →Part I · the hubs
Where to read everything
You do not need a university library. Nearly the entire corpus of ancient and sacred literature has been digitised and put online for free. These are the great open archives — start here, and you can read almost everything this site cites without paying a cent.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive — the largest free library of scripture, myth and folklore.
- Internet Archive — millions of scanned books, including out-of-print translations.
- Project Gutenberg — public-domain classics in clean, readable editions.
- Perseus Digital Library — Greek and Latin texts with the original languages beside the English.
- MIT Internet Classics Archive — 400+ classical works, plainly presented.
- ETCSL — Sumerian literature — Oxford's electronic corpus of the oldest written stories on Earth.
- Mesopotamian texts — Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Enuma Elish and more.
- Pyramid Texts Online — the oldest religious writing from ancient Egypt, chamber by chamber.
Part II · the canon
The texts that matter to us
These are the specific sources the argument leans on hardest. Each card tells you, in one line, why it matters to us — and links you straight to a place you can read it for yourself.
The Epic of Gilgamesh (+ Atrahasis, Enuma Elish)
The Mesopotamian Flood, written down centuries older than Genesis — the deluge the Bible would later inherit.
Read it →The Sumerian King List
Eight kings who, it says, reigned 241,200 years before the flood — the deep-time numbers we keep circling.
Read it →The Egyptian Book of the Dead & Pyramid Texts
The sky-religion set in stone — the stars, the journey, the afterlife, written by the people who built the pyramids.
Read it →The Hindu Flood & the Yugas (Manu, Matsya)
The same deluge again — and the cosmic ages, where Kali Yuga's 432,000 years ≈ the Sumerian 43,200.
Read it →The Popol Vuh
The Maya creation — and its account of previous worlds, made and unmade before our own.
Read it →The Book of Enoch (the Watchers)
The sky-beings who descended and taught humankind forbidden knowledge — the paleocontact image, in scripture.
Read it →The Hopi Emergence
Three prior worlds, each ended by fire, ice and flood — the same catastrophe-and-survival pattern, an ocean away.
Read it →◇ A note in good faith: linking a source is not endorsing every claim inside it. Some of these are scripture, some are scholarship, some are legend — and we have mixed them on purpose, because the echo between them is the whole point. Read them critically. Weigh who wrote each one, and when, and why. The originals are here precisely so you can disagree with us from the same page we did.