{"id":19615,"date":"2013-03-06T08:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=19615"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:14:58","slug":"laoupi-amanda-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/laoupi-amanda-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Laoupi, Amanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adamantia (Amanda) Laoupi<\/strong> (1968- ) is a Greek archaeologist(a)<\/sup> responsible for defining a new interdisciplinary field of study \u2013 Disaster Archaeology, which is concerned with a \"\"<\/a>range of subjects that includes earthquakes, tsunamis<\/a>, volcanic eruptions and asteroidal\/cometary impacts<\/a>, together with their local, regional and global effects. Laoupi has now expanded her views on disaster archaeology with the publication of her 2016 book, Pushing the<\/em> Limits [1233<\/a>]<\/sup>, which can now be read online(j)<\/span><\/sup>. She followed that with Disaster Archaeology: The Science of Archaeodisasters<\/em> [<\/sup>1963<\/a>]<\/sup> in 2019. She has also written a book about disaster archaeology for younger readers.<\/p>\n

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A number of her papers are available on the Internet(f)<\/sup>, one(b)<\/span><\/sup> deals with comets and diseases, echoing some of the conclusions of Mike Baillie<\/a>[892<\/a>]<\/sup> as well as those of Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe [2099<\/a>]<\/sup>.\u00a0 2013 saw further evidence published that suggested that comets may have seeded life on Earth(d)<\/span><\/sup>. Additional confirmation came from data transmitted from comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P in 2015 that revealed the existence of sixteen organic compounds(e)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Laoupi has also touched on the subject of Atlantis in a technical paper on catastrophist mythology[<\/sup>0629<\/sup><\/a>.9]<\/sup> presented at the 2005 Atlantis Conference<\/a>. In her Disaster Archaeology website(c)<\/sup> she has 14 discussion headings relating to Atlantis. She concludes that the Atlantis story is a mixture of fact and fiction and perhaps is best related in her own words: \u201cThe worldwide legend of Atlantis is a multi-layered ‘anthropological’ myth with strong cross-cultural parallels that echoes humanity’s experiences on mega-archaeodisasters, that had been filtrated through different symbolic languages. So, in this point of view, Atlantis as described by Plato didn’t exist exactly as a whole, but as hidden information of different origins (chronological, topographic, environmental, archaeological, astronomical, etc), like the Homeric Epics and other famous literature of the ancient world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Laoupi has also identified Homer’s Hephaestos as a comet or meteor god(g)(h)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.qconference-athens-2011.grazian-archive.com\/amandalaoupi\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.2010-q-conference.com\/cometsanddisease\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/archaeodisasters.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-03-evidence-comets-seeded-life-earth.html#ajTabs<\/a><\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>(BBC<\/em> July 30, 2015) https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-33720951<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup><\/span> https:\/\/archaeodisasters.blogspot.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup><\/span> http:\/\/www.drgeorgepc.com\/DisasterArchHephaeLaoupi.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(h)<\/sup> Gods in Heaven, Havoc on Earth by Amanda Laoupi – Issuu (archive.org)<\/a>
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(i) https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/39151150\/The_Atlantis_Hypothesis_Catastrophist_Mythology_The_Methodological_Framework<\/a><\/p>\n

(j)<\/sup> Adamantia (Amanda) Laoupi archaeodisaster book by Amanda Laoupi – Issuu (archive.org)<\/a>
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