{"id":17975,"date":"2012-08-06T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:27:34","slug":"chiang-mai-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chiang-mai-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiang Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chiang Mai <\/strong>is a popular tourist centre in Northern Thailand and now nearby Doi Sethup is the source of a new Atlantis claim. The English language <em>Bangkok Post<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup>has reported (5\/8\/2012) that following archaeological discoveries at Doi Sethup last February, it was thought that the ancient city of Jed-lin had been rediscovered. However, Poonsab Wongsasukoipak, secretary of the Jed-lin Anthropological Research Institute, claims <em>&#8220;with 80% certainty&#8221;<\/em> that the ruins are 10,000 years old and part of Atlantis!<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can ascertain, there has been no further comment from Poonsab over the past decade, so Chiang Mai remains in the overflowing dustbin of daft Atlantis location suggestions.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/politics\/306017\/thai-scholar-sticks-by-claim-plato-atlantis-is-near-chiang-mai\">https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/politics\/306017\/thai-scholar-sticks-by-claim-plato-atlantis-is-near-chiang-mai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiang Mai is a popular tourist centre in Northern Thailand and now nearby Doi Sethup is the source of a new Atlantis claim. The English language Bangkok Post(a) has reported (5\/8\/2012) that following archaeological discoveries at Doi Sethup last February, it was thought that the ancient city of Jed-lin had been rediscovered. However, Poonsab Wongsasukoipak, [&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":[1243,6841,1244,1245],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chiang-mai","tag-doi-sethup","tag-jed-lin","tag-poonsab-wongsasukoipak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","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=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66004,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions\/66004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}