Timeline

Book of the Dead4000 B.C.

Egyptian

King Thoth ruled an Island in the West which was destroyed by water, and brought the surviving rulers eastward to Egypt.

Purana2000 B.C.

Vishnu

Locates Atala, the White Island, in the "Western Ocean" at same latitude as Canary Islands in the Atlantic.

Theogeny735 B.C.

Hesiod

Tells us of the Titans who, after losing a ten-year war, were imprisoned beneath the waters of the Ocean in the far West.

Karna Parva600 B.C.

Mahabharata

Describes a ten-year war at the end of which the island of Atala and all its inhabitants sank into the "Western Ocean".

Atlantica (lost)590 B.C.

Solon

Solon began his epic poem "Atlantica" based on the story of Atlantis he had gotten from the priests at Sais, Egypt.

Atlantis460 B.C.

Hellanicus

Hellanicus wrote a chronology entitled "Atlantis" (of which only fragments remain) mentioning Poseidon and Atlas.

Histories450 B.C.

Herodotus

The ocean now called the Atlantic he calls "the Atlantis Sea". Also describes a tribe of "Atlanteans" living in North Africa.

Timaeus/Critias350 B.C.

Plato

Plato relates the now familiar story of Atlantis and its final destruction by earthquakes, floods and subsidance.

Ethiopic History100 B.C.

Marcellus

Canary Islanders preserved traditions of Atlantis, which they alleged had once governed all the islands in the Atlantic.

Library of History8 B.C.

Diodorus

Describes a race of "Atlanteans" living in Libya (North Africa), whose former deities originated in the Atlantic.

Adversus Gentes300 A.D.

Arnobius

Writes of the destruction of Atlantis as if it were an accepted fact of history.