{"id":1941,"date":"2010-05-28T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T21:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:33:49","slug":"iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I<\/strong><strong>raq<\/strong> has been given little attention by early Atlantis hunters until the 16th-century\u00a0Spanish historian <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/570\/\">Gonzalo Fernandez Oviedo y Valdes<\/a> (1478-1557) suggested Iraq as the location of Atlantis, whose inhabitants fled to the Americas when their country was inundated.\u00a0However, it took another four hundred years before the discovery of the advanced civilisation of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sumeria\/\">Sumeria<\/a> situated in central Iraq began to generate interest in the possibility of Sumeria being Atlantean and the &#8216;cradle of civilisation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pincherle-mario\/\">Mario Pincherle<\/a> considers the Mandaeans of southern Iraq to be descendants of the original Atlanteans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/elshout-leon\/\">Leon Elshout<\/a> associates the story of Atlantis with Iraq in a brief blog<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250124133331\/https:\/\/roodgoudvanparvaim.nl\/15-atlantis-is-iraq\/\">(15) Atlantis is Iraq \u2013 Rood Goud van Parva\u00efm (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has been given little attention by early Atlantis hunters until the 16th-century\u00a0Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez Oviedo y Valdes (1478-1557) suggested Iraq as the location of Atlantis, whose inhabitants fled to the Americas when their country was inundated.\u00a0However, it took another four hundred years before the discovery of the advanced civilisation of Sumeria situated in [&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":[43,6258,67,6239,225,3403],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-gonzalo-fernandez-oviedo-y-valdes","tag-iraq","tag-leon-elshout","tag-mandaeans","tag-mario-pincherle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","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=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66898,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/66898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}