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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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