Iraq*

Iraq was been given little attention by early Atlantis hunters until the 16th-century Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez Oviedo y Valdes (1478-1557) suggested Iraq as the location of Atlantis, whose inhabitants fled to the Americas when their country was inundated. However, it took another four hundred years before the discovery of the advanced civilisation of Sumeria situated in central Iraq began to generate interest in the possibility of Sumeria being Atlantean and the ‘cradle of civilisation’.

Mario Pincherle considers the Mandaeans of southern Iraq to be descendants of the original Atlanteans.

Leon Elshout associates the story of Atlantis with Iraq in a brief blog^(a).

^(a) (15) Atlantis is Iraq – Rood Goud van Parvaïm (archive.org)  *