{"id":1493,"date":"2010-05-23T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dantas-mario\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:25:25","slug":"dantas-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dantas-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"Dantas, Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario <\/strong>D<\/strong>antas <\/strong>is one of the few modern voices advocating Greenland<\/a> as the true home of Atlantis. He has promoted his theory on various websites(<\/span><\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0submitted a paper to the 2008 Atlantis Conference<\/a> in Athens. His claim is based on the superficial similarity between Athanasius Kircher<\/a>‘s speculative 17th century map of Atlantis and the outline of Greenland today. His claim is based on the superficial similarity between Athanasius Kircher<\/a>‘s speculative 17th century map of Atlantis and the outline of Greenland today. Furthermore he believes “that <\/em>Greenland is the largest and oldest Island in the World (the southwestern part is around 4 billion years old) and we think that it was, not long ago, entirely situated in the<\/em> Atlantic ocean, further south.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He explains that originally Greenland was situated opposite the Strait of Gibraltar and that tectonics gradually brought it to its present position, ‘not long ago’<\/em>. However, he does not explain how Greenland moved, but Spain and northwest Africa remained where they were and still are.<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/a7lan7is.blogspot.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario Dantas is one of the few modern voices advocating Greenland as the true home of Atlantis. He has promoted his theory on various websites(a)\u00a0and\u00a0submitted a paper to the 2008 Atlantis Conference in Athens. His claim is based on the superficial similarity between Athanasius Kircher‘s speculative 17th century map of Atlantis and the outline of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1192,72,449],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-atlantis-conference","tag-greenland","tag-mario-dantas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66218,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/66218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}