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by the Atlanteans, and believed



                                                                                                                                         that there must have been another




                                                                                                                                         race that was responsible. Soon



                                                                                                                                         a Mesoamerican scholars in the



                                                                                                                                         late nineteenth century formally




                                                                                                                                         proposed that Atlantis was in fact



                                                                                                                                         related to the Mayan and Aztec




            With the discovery of  the Mayans                                                                                            culture. Descendants of  the Toltecs,



            in the Americas, many speculations                                                                                           who the Europeans believed were the



            started to rise out. However the                                                                                             surviving population of  the racially




            Europeans believed that these                                                                                                superior civilization of  Atlantis, the



            indigenous people were inferior                                                                                              Mayans were seen in different light.




            and  incapable compared to  the                                                                                              With his research and the writing



            glorious foundation that were done                                                                                           abilities of  Jean Frederic Waldeck,
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