{"id":2059,"date":"2010-05-29T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rathjen-hans%e2%80%93wilhelm\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:18:03","slug":"rathjen-hans%e2%80%93wilhelm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rathjen-hans%e2%80%93wilhelm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rathjen, Hans\u2013Wilhelm (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hans\u2013Wilhelm <\/strong><strong>R<\/strong><strong>athjen <\/strong><strong>(1928- ) <\/strong>is a retired German high school teacher. In 2004 he <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Rathjen-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27379\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Rathjen-map-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Rathjen map\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Rathjen-map-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Rathjen-map.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>published a book<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\">688<\/a>]<\/sup> which claimed that Atlantis had been a federation of the megalithic peoples of Western Europe. Following the lead of J\u00fcrgen Spanuth he locates a capital of this \u2018empire\u2019 in the vicinity of Helgoland with a second power centre in North Africa. My principal argument against this is that there is no evidence of writing being used by the megalithic cultures, an ability\u00a0clearly\u00a0attributed to the Atlanteans\u00a0by Plato.<\/p>\n<p>Rathjen\u2019s 526-page book has had enthusiastic reviews, but unfortunately, it is only available in German at present.<\/p>\n<p>His views are also available in an 2005 article on the\u00a0EFODON website<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>  <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240812063621\/http:\/\/www.efodon.de\/html\/archiv\/vorgeschichte\/andere\/SY7233%20Rathjen%20-%20Atlantis.pdf\">Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a> (German) <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans\u2013Wilhelm Rathjen (1928- ) is a retired German high school teacher. In 2004 he published a book[688] which claimed that Atlantis had been a federation of the megalithic peoples of Western Europe. Following the lead of J\u00fcrgen Spanuth he locates a capital of this \u2018empire\u2019 in the vicinity of Helgoland with a second power centre [&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":[2731,269,232,2732,203],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hans-wilhelm-rathjen","tag-helgoland","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-megalith","tag-megalith-builders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","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=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63243,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/63243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}