{"id":16296,"date":"2012-01-17T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16296"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:04:49","slug":"aden-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aden-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Aden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Yemen-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28060\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Yemen-map-282x300.png\" alt=\"Yemen-map\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Yemen-map-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Yemen-map.png 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>Aden <\/strong>was formerly a British possession and is now part of war-torn Yemen. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/stan-deyo\/\">Stan Deyo<\/a>, author of <em>The Vindicator Scrolls<\/em><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">[<\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">784<\/span><\/sup><\/a><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">]<\/span><\/sup>, in 1989 located Atlantis in Aden. A Dutch amateur Egyptologist, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/16301\/\">Alexander Muster,<\/a> also promotes a similar idea through a variety of Internet forums. A former French police chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hebert-jacques\/\">Jacques H\u00e9bert<\/a>, has proposed that the Yemeni island of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/socotra\/\">Socotra<\/a> was part of the Atlantean civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s long history was highlighted just before the end of the last century, when a group of megaliths were discovered, by chance, on the coastal plain of western Yemen<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Gary Vey and John McGovern claimed to have evidence that the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-ark-of-the-covenant\/\">Ark of the Covenant<\/a> had been buried in Yemen (the ancient kingdom of Saba)<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/velikovsky-immanuel\/\">Immanuel Velikovsky<\/a> placed the <a href=\"#GardenofEden\">Garden of Eden<\/a> in Aden<sup>(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A recent Russian website<sup>(a)<\/sup> also places Atlantis in the Gulf of Aden opposite the legendary land of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/punt-n\/\">Punt<\/a> in what is now Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/atlantis-aden\/main\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/atlantis-aden\/main<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/viewzone.com\/protocanaanite22.html\">Proto-Canaanite \/ First Tongue \/ Ark of the Covenant (viewzone.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.archaeology.org\/online\/news\/yemen.html\">https:\/\/archive.archaeology.org\/online\/news\/yemen.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.varchive.org\/ce\/baalbek\/eden.htm\">http:\/\/www.varchive.org\/ce\/baalbek\/eden.htm<\/a><strong style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aden was formerly a British possession and is now part of war-torn Yemen. Stan Deyo, author of The Vindicator Scrolls[784], in 1989 located Atlantis in Aden. A Dutch amateur Egyptologist, Alexander Muster, also promotes a similar idea through a variety of Internet forums. A former French police chief, Jacques H\u00e9bert, has proposed that the Yemeni [&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":[502,505,359,383,1118,5965,106,507,6674,637,4281,6675,506,503,681],"class_list":["post-16296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aden","tag-alexander-muster","tag-ark-of-the-covenant","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-gary-vey","tag-gulf-of-aden","tag-immanuel-velikovsky","tag-jacques-hebert","tag-john-mcgovern","tag-megaliths","tag-punt","tag-saba","tag-socotra","tag-stan-deyo","tag-yemen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296","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=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63912,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions\/63912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}