Ancient Egyptian texts suggest a land of death across the water to the west, where the sun set. Ignatius Donnelly wrote about Atlantis and described a widespread ancient tradition describing an island homeland of the gods in the west, submerged under the ocean, where its cities and mountains and rivers were now flooded and sunken and many millions of dead had once lived in a mighty empire. If 99% of the world were killed in a cataclysm today, would future people talk about the civilization of America, Russia, China, Britain, etc.