{"id":1666,"date":"2010-05-25T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cosci-marcello\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:15:03","slug":"cosci-marcello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cosci-marcello\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosci, Marcello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cosci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34882\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Cosci.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>M<\/strong><strong>arcello <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>osci <strong>(1929- 2009) <\/strong><\/strong>was former head of Siena University\u2019s archaeological photo-interpretation department. After extensive studies of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/satellite-imagery\/\">satellite imagery<\/a>, Professor Cosci arrived at the remarkable conclusion that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sherbro-island\/\">Sherbro Island<\/a> off the coast of Sierra Leone had features that matched Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>A paper submitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-2008\/\">2008 Atlantis Conference<\/a> by Cosci is now available online<sup>(b)<\/sup>. Cosci has published his theory as well as the relevant images in book form<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">611<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><sup> (a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/solarey.net\/tag\/ancient-african-civilization-before-it-was-flooded\/\">https:\/\/solarey.net\/tag\/ancient-african-civilization-before-it-was-flooded\/<\/a> (4th item) Also See<sup>(c)<\/sup><\/p>\r\n<p>Satellite images show ancient structures off the coast of Sierra Leone, West Africa | Sola Rey\u00a0(link broken) See <sup>(c)\u00a0 <\/sup><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170706141830\/http:\/\/www.marcellocosci.it\/drupal\/dai_satelliti_le_prime_immagini_della_mitica_atlantide\">The Atlantis Hypothesis | Associazione Marcello Cosci (archive.org)<\/a> (Italian)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www-cfs-unipi-it.translate.goog\/ricerca\/laboratori\/laboratorio-di-archeologia\/aerofototeca-marcello-cosci\/?_x_tr_sl=it&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=sc\">https:\/\/www-cfs-unipi-it.translate.goog\/ricerca\/laboratori\/laboratorio-di-archeologia\/aerofototeca-marcello-cosci\/?_x_tr_sl=it&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcello Cosci (1929- 2009) was former head of Siena University\u2019s archaeological photo-interpretation department. After extensive studies of satellite imagery, Professor Cosci arrived at the remarkable conclusion that Sherbro Island off the coast of Sierra Leone had features that matched Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis(a). &nbsp; A paper submitted to the 2008 Atlantis Conference by Cosci is [&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":[1192,557,127,707],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-atlantis-conference","tag-marcello-cosci","tag-sherbro-island","tag-sierra-leone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66082,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/66082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}