{"id":2440,"date":"2010-06-01T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:16:57","slug":"lost-civilisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lost-civilisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Civilisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L<\/strong><strong>ost <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>ivilisations <\/strong>have been the subject of many books in recent years and invariably include a reference to the Atlantis mystery. Some writers have confined their analysis to the discoveries of conventional archaeology, while others have soared into cyber-speculation. The controversial books<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">274<\/a>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>275<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hancock-graham\/\">Graham Hancock<\/a> are perhaps the best known, while others, such as the British anthropologist and Atlantis sceptic, Richard Rudgley<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>606<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\">1697<\/a>]<\/sup>, have produced valuable books on mankind\u2019s prehistory. For those who are focused on the enigma of Atlantis they have concentrated on various anomalous discoveries, such as the underwater <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/yonaguni\/\">Yonaguni<\/a> ruins, the age of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sphinx\/\">Sphinx<\/a>, the accounts of what appear to be flight and nuclear warfare in ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/india\/\">India<\/a> and the disputed date of the enormous Baalbek megaliths. All in an attempt to demonstrate that powerful civilisations existed during the last Ice Age and so add some <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/credibility-and-veracity-of-the-atlantis-story\/\">credibility<\/a> to Plato\u2019s early date for Atlantis. Unfortunately, undisputed proof for such great antiquity is rarely available to support such propositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost Civilisations have been the subject of many books in recent years and invariably include a reference to the Atlantis mystery. Some writers have confined their analysis to the discoveries of conventional archaeology, while others have soared into cyber-speculation. The controversial books[274][275] of Graham Hancock are perhaps the best known, while others, such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,35,250,155,251],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-graham-hancoc","tag-india","tag-richard-rudgley","tag-sphinx","tag-yonaguni"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67867,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/67867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}