Hey, I didn't see your new thread but I already answered your question here. The presence of the word on these maps is not a coincidence, since Herodotos claims there was a people called the Atlantes in the distant west of North Africa, who were named after Mt Atlas. Presumably the other maps derive their limited information on this region from the same original source; Herodotos' account, meanwhile, is clearly speculative and need not give us any wild ideas.

This submission has been removed because it is soapboxing or moralizing: it has the effect of promoting an opinion on contemporary politics or social issues at the expense of historical integrity. There are certainly historical topics that relate to contemporary issues and it is possible for legitimate interpretations that differ from each other to come out of looking at the past through differing political lenses. However, we will remove questions that put a deliberate slant on their subject or solicit answers that align with a specific pre-existing view.