This also allowed him to argue that Germans were an ancient and highly civilised people that pre-dated ... through supposed links to ancient civilizations like Atlantis. In the 1960s, a book ...

Mosaic from Monreale Cathedral, Sicily For an Orthodox Christian, the subject of the destruction of the antediluvian civilization sounds like a warning ... had been called “the righteous people of God ...

He argued that these ancient civilizations were the ancestors to Europeans and the ones primarily responsible for contemporary western civilization—not people living in other parts of Africa and Asia.