{"id":2443,"date":"2010-06-01T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:30:37","slug":"lost-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lost-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/de-Camp-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34112\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/de-Camp-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>L<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ost<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> C<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ontinents<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><strong>194<\/strong><\/a><strong>] <\/strong>by L. Sprague de Camp is a rational refutation of the ideas of lost continents, such as Atlantis and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lemuria\/\">Lemuria<\/a> and their adoption by fringe cults, such as Theosophy. It is a well-researched work deserving its critical acclaim. However, since the location of Atlantis has not yet been definitively identified and no single theory has accommodated all the, quite understandable, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ambiguities-and-contradictions\/\">ambiguities<\/a> and inconsistencies in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/plato%e2%80%99s-text\/\">Plato\u2019s text<\/a>, it is easy to pick holes in any of the theories advanced so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost Continents [194] by L. Sprague de Camp is a rational refutation of the ideas of lost continents, such as Atlantis and Lemuria and their adoption by fringe cults, such as Theosophy. It is a well-researched work deserving its critical acclaim. However, since the location of Atlantis has not yet been definitively identified and no [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","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=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67340,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/67340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}