{"id":20971,"date":"2013-05-09T07:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=20971"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:34:49","slug":"kolb-dustin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kolb-dustin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolb, Dustin*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dustin Kolb <\/b>is a German researcher who has opted for a Mexican location for Atlantis<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup>. Somehow or other he arrived at the conclusion that Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis could only have been a reference to America. His then \u2018reasoned\u2019 that since the capital of Atlantis was in the middle of Plato\u2019s island, this must have been a reference to Central America! Moving steadily along, he next decided that the concentric rings of the Atlantean capital could only have been an impact crater. He finally settled on the region of Lake Texcoco in the Valley of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mexico\/\">Mexico<\/a> as the original home of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His idea of Atlantis in Mexico is not original, having been first proposed over a century earlier\u00a0by<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/launay-louis-de\/\"> Louis de Launay<\/a> and has <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/matlock-gene\/\">Gene Matlock <\/a>as arguably its best known modern proponent. I was not convinced by Kolb as he failed to explain either why or how an attack could be launched from Mexico across the Atlantic to the eastern Mediterranean. He also fails to explain how a Mexican Atlantis had control of the western Mediterranean without leaving any archaeological evidence to support such a contention. Finally, his explanation that the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/elephants-2\/\">elephants<\/a>\u2019 recorded by Plato were probably \u201cbulls and bison\u201d is, in my opinion,\u00a0pathetic.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Atlantis_lag_in_Mexiko\">https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Atlantis_lag_in_Mexiko<\/a> (Ger)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240710180829\/https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/3385512\/Atlantis_in_Mexico?email_work_card=view-paper\">(PDF) Atlantis in Mexico | Dustin Kolb &#8211; Academia.edu (archive.org)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> (Ger)<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Kolb is a German researcher who has opted for a Mexican location for Atlantis(a)(b). Somehow or other he arrived at the conclusion that Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis could only have been a reference to America. His then \u2018reasoned\u2019 that since the capital of Atlantis was in the middle of Plato\u2019s island, this must have [&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":[594,2135,1123,2136,2137,42,1318],"class_list":["post-20971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-america","tag-dustin-kolb","tag-elephants","tag-lake-texacoco","tag-louis-de-launay","tag-mexico","tag-valley-of-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971","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=20971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62990,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions\/62990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}