{"id":22875,"date":"2013-12-04T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T07:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=22875"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:45:17","slug":"potel-belner-philippe-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/potel-belner-philippe-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Potel-Belner, Philippe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/philippe-Potel-belner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22880\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/philippe-Potel-belner.png\" alt=\"philippe Potel-belner\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/philippe-Potel-belner.png 160w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/philippe-Potel-belner-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Philippe Potel-Belner<\/strong> is a French historian, archaeologist and philologist<sup>(c)<\/sup>, \u00a0who is convinced that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/india\/\">India <\/a>was home to Atlantis. He specifies the long western coastal plain of India<sup>(a)<\/sup>, which is beyond the Pillars of Heracles, identified by him as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bab-el-mandeb\/\">Bal-el-Mandeb<\/a><sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>He also suggests<sup>(c)<\/sup> that the events recorded in the Atlantis texts probably took place in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> millennium BC and are an account of the history of the Dravidian civilisation.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220119171522\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-4890\/<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/3339364\/PLATO_revisited_what_he_precisely_said_about_Atlantis (Fr) (link broken) )<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210420214649\/https:\/www.langue-et-histoire.com\/\">\u00e0 la recherche de la langue du Moyen Age (archive.org)<\/a> \u00a0(French)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippe Potel-Belner is a French historian, archaeologist and philologist(c), \u00a0who is convinced that India was home to Atlantis. He specifies the long western coastal plain of India(a), which is beyond the Pillars of Heracles, identified by him as Bal-el-Mandeb(b). He also suggests(c) that the events recorded in the Atlantis texts probably took place in the [&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":[2808,35,2807,48],"class_list":["post-22875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bab-el-mandeb","tag-india","tag-philippe-potel-belner","tag-pillars-of-heracles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22875","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=22875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65227,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22875\/revisions\/65227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}