Revealing the identity of Plato’s “opposite continent” as ancient America, Collins argues that Plato’s story was first carried back to the Mediterranean world by trans-Atlantic mariners, such as the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, as early as the first millennium BC. He offers additional ancient trans-Atlantis trade evidence from Egyptian mummies, Roman shipwrecks in the Western Atlantic, and the African features of giant stone heads in Mexico. Piecing together the final days of Atlantis and the wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis, days of darkness, and advancement of ice sheets that followed the ancient comet’s impact, Collins establishes not only that Atlantis did indeed exist but also that remnants of it survive today, most obviously in Cuba, Atlantis’s original central island.

柯林斯揭示柏拉图“对大陆”与古美洲的身份，认为柏拉图的故事最早是在公元前千年由腓尼基人和迦太基人等跨大西洋水手带回地中海世界的。他提供了更多的古穿越亚特兰蒂斯的贸易证据，来自埃及木乃伊、西大西洋的罗马沉船以及墨西哥巨大石头的非洲特征。科林斯将亚特兰蒂斯的最后几天与大火、地震、海啸、黑暗的日子和伴随着古老彗星撞击的冰原一起推进，柯林斯不仅证明亚特兰蒂斯确实存在，而且它的残余物今天仍然存在，最明显的是在古巴，亚特兰蒂斯的原始中心岛。