Gypsies and Atlantis are not normally associated, although the idea of a link was expressed in the science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg in his 1986 Star of Gypsies, in which he has gypsies arriving on earth from the stars and establishing Atlantis. The more conventional idea was to consider gypsies originating in India or Lower Egypt. Such speculation has now been overtaken by the science of DNA which confirms India as the true home to have been in India 1000 years ago^(a).

    In the July 1950 edition of Egerton Sykes’ Atlantis newsletter an article by Vera Garner Howe speculated that gypsies may have been refugees from sunken Atlantis. She offers little to support this contention and in fact she ends up doing more to reinforce the Indian origins theory, now proven correct by DNA studies.

^(a)      http://www.helium.com/items/1233452-gypsies-rom-romany-origin-of-gypsies-gypsy-tribes-gypsy-history