{"id":18094,"date":"2012-08-22T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18094"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:43:42","slug":"cancho-roano-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cancho-roano-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancho Roano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cancho Roano <\/strong>is a Spanish archaeological site near Zalamea de la Serena in Badajoz province. A <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cancho_roano1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27308\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cancho_roano1.jpg\" alt=\"cancho_roano1\" width=\"220\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a>feature of the site is that it \u201cappears to have been ritually burned and sealed in rammed earth in a manner similar to Etruscan ceremonies\u201d<sup>(a)<\/sup>. When I read this I was reminded of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gobekli-tepe\/\">G\u00f6bekli Tepe <\/a>which was also deliberately buried!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/freund-professor-richard\/\">Richard Freund<\/a> considers Cancho Roano to be a \u2018memorial city\u2019 constructed to represent the lost city of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tartessos\/\">Tartessos<\/a>, which Freund considers to have been Atlantis. This idea is born of nothing but Freund\u2019s fertile imagination and three concentric circles on a stele. Plato describes the capital of Atlantis as circular, while Cancho Roano seems to be a large single square building!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cancho_Roano\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cancho_Roano<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancho Roano is a Spanish archaeological site near Zalamea de la Serena in Badajoz province. A feature of the site is that it \u201cappears to have been ritually burned and sealed in rammed earth in a manner similar to Etruscan ceremonies\u201d(a). When I read this I was reminded of G\u00f6bekli Tepe which was also deliberately [&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":[1301,320,428,13],"class_list":["post-18094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancho-roano","tag-gobekli-tepe","tag-richard-freund","tag-tartessos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094","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=18094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65923,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18094\/revisions\/65923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}