{"id":1846,"date":"2010-05-27T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/winters-clyde-ahmad\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T07:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T06:42:05","slug":"winters-clyde-ahmad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/winters-clyde-ahmad\/","title":{"rendered":"Winters, Clyde Ahmad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clyde Ahmad <\/strong>W<\/strong>inters <\/strong>was born in Chicago where he graduated from the \"clyde<\/a>University of Illinois-Urbana with degrees in Anthropology and History. His interests also extend to neurobiological learning, linguistics and ancient scripts. Dr. Winters claims to have deciphered the writings of the Berber, Meroitic, Olmec and the Indus Valley<\/a> cultures. He is a prominent advocate of Afrocentricity, but unfortunately he has allowed his support for this controversial concept to induce him to offer unqualified support for Zimbabwe\u2019s former tyrant Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Winters ventured to resurrect interest in the long discredited ‘elephant slabs of Flora Vista’, claiming that they offered evidence of elephants<\/a> in America, which had been brought there by African visitors(b)<\/sup>. Jason Colavito<\/a> had already refuted the authenticity of the ‘slabs’ in 2012(c)<\/sup> and has again sharpened his pen to deal with Winters’ latest offering(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Our interest in Dr. Winters is his contention that the Olmecs<\/a> \u2018were the descendents of the Atlanteans that formerly lived in ancient Libya<\/a>\u2019, and the book[<\/sup>496<\/sup><\/a>.13]<\/sup> he wrote supporting this notion. The book is available both in paperback and as an eBook(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>. Unfortunately, while he offers considerable evidence that Mesoamerica had a discernable cultural input from Africa he fails to convincingly link this with Plato\u2019s Atlantis. In fact, he makes only a single cursory reference to Plato\u2019s text.<\/p>\n

Winters has now turned his attention to the idea of Sumerian visits to South America in a 2015 book[1302<\/a>]<\/sup> and website articles(e<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup>. In March 13th 2018, he wrote a paper(f)<\/sup> for the Ancient Origins<\/em> website refuting\u00a0Zecharia Sitchin’s<\/a> \u2018ancient astronaut\u2019 interpretation of some of the Sumerian seals.<\/p>\n

Winters published a revised version of his Atlantis in Mexico <\/em>in 2013[1046<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

>><\/span><\/strong>Microsoft Bing observed that many professional commetators reject many of Winters’ conclusions<\/p>\n

“Historians and Archaeologists<\/em><\/strong>: Many mainstream historians and archaeologists refute Winters\u2019 theories, arguing that they lack sufficient evidence and do not align with established research. They often point out methodological flaws and the speculative nature of his claims.<\/em><\/p>\n

Linguists<\/em><\/strong>: Linguists generally do not support Winters\u2019 theories about the African origins of various ancient scripts. They argue that his interpretations are not supported by linguistic evidence and do not fit with the broader understanding of language development.”<\/em><\/p>\n

For my part, I advise that Winters’ claims be treated with great caution.<<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> Atlantis in Mexico by Clyde Winters (Paperback) – Lulu (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(b<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/elephant-slabs-flora-vista-enigmatic-artifacts-ancient-african-origins-006334?nopaging=1<\/a><\/p>\n

(c<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/the-elephant-slabs-of-new-mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/clyde-winters-goes-in-search-of-elephants-in-ancient-america-and-the-africans-who-brought-them-there<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/was-bolivia-peru-sunset-land-sumerians-006708?nopaging=1<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/artifacts-ancient-writings\/reading-so-called-sumerian-seals-relating-gods-outer-space-009737<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clyde Ahmad Winters was born in Chicago where he graduated from the University of Illinois-Urbana with degrees in Anthropology and History. His interests also extend to neurobiological learning, linguistics and ancient scripts. Dr. Winters claims to have deciphered the writings of the Berber, Meroitic, Olmec and the Indus Valley cultures. He is a prominent advocate […]<\/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":[4792,453,1123,257,1266,184,1606,42,110,4793,741,1662],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afrocentric","tag-clyde-winters","tag-elephants","tag-indus-valley","tag-jason-colavito","tag-libya","tag-mesoamerica","tag-mexico","tag-olmecs","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-sumerians","tag-zechariah-sitchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","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=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62049,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/62049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}