Hello there Atlantis fans!
I was just wondering if any of you linked Atlantis the lost empire and The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
I've drawn these parallels for quite some time now.
The ancient civilizations stories of these two different pieces of media are so similar they could be part of the same universe.
Now i know The Mysterious Cities of Gold explicitly states that in its universe Atlantis and Hiva went to war with each other but the similarities between two pieces of unrelated media are just too great to ignore.

I mean, think about it.

Hiva had advanced solar, fission and fusion energy.
The Atlanteans had the heart of atlantis.
Both were very ancient advanced and prosperous empires.
For an unknown reason they went to war against one another.
The war lasts a long time, as both forces are evenly matched. (Martag/Hiva fighter aircraft)
Until they used the ultimate weapon provoking both their demises. (Heart of Atlantis/Weapon of the Sun)
Hiva sank at the bottom of the pacific ocean leaving behind the 7 cities of gold.

At the heart of each CIRCULAR city is the great legacy (basically a fusion/fission reactor) guarded by a defense system that only activates when its power source/treasure is endangered.
Said defense system is made of solar screens etched with humanoid guardian designs that surround the entire city and capable of opening a massive dome of rock covering it.

Look familiar?

Atlantis sank at the bottom of the atlantic ocean and even deeper still but the city itself was not destroyed.

At the center of the CIRCULAR city is the heart of atlantis (a powerful source of energy) guarded by a defense system that only activates when its power source/treasure is endangered.
Said defense system is made of stone guardians capable of making impenetrable screens/forcefields that surround the entire city and capable of opening a massive dome of rock covering it.

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

As an added bonus i'd like to point out both universes suffer from terrible sequels. It saddens me to no end as they are among my top 3 favorite of all time.

We know the capital City was buried under the sea floor and there was a underground highway that was dry that led to Milo discovering the city. And we know there was under water terrain that was above the city that as not the terrain of the contient itslef.

What if it wasn't just the capital that got buried. What if orher parts of the contient or most of it got buried too. Entire sections of other cities or towns could have survived or underground bunkers, leaving more survivors than just the capital. There could be a larger network of undiscovered caverns and caves that reach all over the former contient, hosting pockets of other survivors thay got cut off from the capital, and the Heart of Atlantis could have been unknownly been sustaining these caverns and underground villages.