Donato, William Michael

William Michael Donato is an American archaeologist who holds an MA in anthropology and is a regular contributor to the Ancient American and Atlantis Rising magazines and is an advocate of a Bimini location for Atlantis. He was the founder of The Atlantis Organisation (TAO) whose work is now continued by the Apex Institute^(a), which was established in 2001 to investigate sites in the Bahamas and other places around the world that might provide evidence of ancient advanced civilizations.

As of November 2016, I can find no trace of the Apex Institute apart from a website^(b) with a bald mission statement.! Donato is also Archaeology Coordinator for the Genesis Quest network^(c).

Donato’s Master’s Thesis was entitled A Re-examination of the Atlantis Theory. Donato was a member of the 2005 team of researchers who claim to have found definitive evidence of two submerged ancient harbours off Bimini.

Donato advises me that his “November 2006 expedition verified side-scan sonar images from 1998 and 1999. The ARE and my friends Greg and Lora Little have verified some of the targets, but no one has yet looked at the best ones — which resemble Maya-style temple pyramids. According to Greg’s account, one area has 35 building foundations in the target area of my side-scan sub-bottom profiling expedition.” 

*^(a) https://web.archive.org/web/20130814012706/https://apexinstitute.org/Mission.aspx*

^(b) https://www.apexinstitute.org/

^(c) https://www.genesisquest.org/?s=Donato