{"id":1550,"date":"2010-05-24T07:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sherbro-island\/"},"modified":"2017-04-02T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T16:39:24","slug":"sherbro-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sherbro-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherbro Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Sherbro-Island.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27417\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Sherbro-Island.png\" alt=\"Sherbro Island\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><strong>Sherbro Island <\/strong>off the West African state of Sierra Leone has joined the ranks of suggested Atlantis locations. In 2007 a former head of Siena University\u2019s archaeological photo-interpretation department, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cosci-marcello\/\">Marcello Cosci<\/a>, published a book, in Italian, outlining this radical new theory. He has based his views on a protracted study of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/satellite-imagery\/\">satellite imagery<\/a> of the island that appears to show a citadel surrounded by three ditches plus a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canals\/\">canal<\/a>, matching Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherbro Island off the West African state of Sierra Leone has joined the ranks of suggested Atlantis locations. In 2007 a former head of Siena University\u2019s archaeological photo-interpretation department, Marcello Cosci, published a book, in Italian, outlining this radical new theory. He has based his views on a protracted study of satellite imagery of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[2259,2200,557,127],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-canal","tag-marcello-cosci","tag-sherbro-island"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}