{"id":1679,"date":"2010-05-25T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:07:57","slug":"cox-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cox-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cox, Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon<\/strong><strong> C<\/strong><strong>ox <\/strong><strong>(1966- ) <\/strong>was a former editor-in-chief of <em>P<\/em><em>henomena <\/em>magazine, which is dedicated to promoting alternatives to accepted historical orthodoxies. He currently runs the UK publishing company, Henu Publications. Cox has also worked as a researcher for well-known writers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hancock-graham\/\">Graham Hancock<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/david-rohl\/\">David Rohl<\/a>. He is probably better known as the author of a number of books that investigate the historical realities behind the works of Dan Brown<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>247-250<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. He is co-author of an A-Z series<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>[<\/sup><sup>251-254<\/sup><sup>]<\/sup><\/a> of books on subjects such as Ancient Egypt, King Arthur and Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Cox\u2019s Atlantis offering is just a heavily padded rehash of well known material and includes a number of headings, that at the most generous, could only be described as having a very tenuous connection with Atlantis. They include Dogon Tribe, Easter Island and <em>2<\/em><em>0,000 <\/em><em>L<\/em><em>eagues <\/em><em>U<\/em><em>nder the <\/em><em>S<\/em><em>ea.<\/em>The headings range from \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aelian\/\">Aelian<\/a>\u2019 to \u2018Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\u2019, so really the title should be an A to T of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>The dustcover notes, for which I\u2019m assuming that neither Cox nor his co-author <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/foster-mark-james\/\">Mark Foster<\/a> were responsible, claim that the book answers the question of where Atlantis was located. It does not.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago Cox launched the <em>Into the Duat<\/em> website<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artifice-design.co.uk\/duat2009\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.artifice-design.co.uk\/duat2009\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cox (1966- ) was a former editor-in-chief of Phenomena magazine, which is dedicated to promoting alternatives to accepted historical orthodoxies. He currently runs the UK publishing company, Henu Publications. Cox has also worked as a researcher for well-known writers such as Graham Hancock and David Rohl. He is probably better known as the author [&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":[131,349,955,698,406],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dan-brown","tag-david-rohl","tag-graham-hancock","tag-mark-foster","tag-simon-cox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66094,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/66094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}