{"id":2622,"date":"2010-06-02T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-of-the-north\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:36:44","slug":"atlantis-of-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-of-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis of the North"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/em><\/strong>tlantis<\/em><\/strong> of the<\/em><\/strong> N<\/em><\/strong>orth<\/em><\/strong> [<\/strong>015<\/strong><\/a>] <\/strong>was the third book written by Dr J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a> on the subject of Atlantis. His first book[<\/sup><\/strong>016<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>]<\/sup><\/strong> published in German, led to court action by Spanuth after being labelled \u2018a peddler of lies\u2019. The matter ended when his detractors, ten professors, admitted that their objections to his work were groundless.<\/p>\n

Spanuth\u2019s book controversially locates Atlantis in the North Sea<\/a> near Helgoland<\/a> and attributes its destruction to the consequences of widespread natural catastrophes that the world experienced in the 13th century BC. These disasters led to large-scale migrations, one of which was from Scandinavia into the Mediterranean, where Spanuth insists that the migrants were known as the \u2018Sea Peoples<\/a>\u2019, or as he calls them, \u2018North Sea Peoples\u2019 and portrayed on the walls of the temple of Medinet Habu<\/a>. He claims that there is considerable agreement between Plato\u2019s Atlantis story and the carvings at Medinet Habu.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Spanuth identifies a cometary impact with the Earth as the cause of these upheavals. He claims that this impact is preserved in mythology as Pha\u00ebton<\/a> by the Greeks and others, as Typhon, Sekhmet, Anat, and Tistrya, etc. Incidentally, the Carolina Bays<\/a> visible today have been linked with this\u00a0event.<\/p>\n

It has been pointed out that much of the material used by Spanuth seems to have been drawn from the research archives of the Nazi<\/a> Ahnenerbe-SS.<\/a> The result is a closely argued work that is worth reading, however unacceptable the Heligoland location is now seen.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Spanuth entered the world of controversy again when The Mystery of Atlantis Unravelled<\/em>[<\/sup>0127<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0<\/em> <\/em> was published by Amazon\u2019s self-publishing department, CreateSpace, with a new title, The Mystery of Atlantis <\/em>and the author\u2019s name changed\u00a0to \u2018John Lock<\/a>\u2019! This is simply a badly scanned copy, blatant plagiarism and possibly breach of copyright as Spanuth only died in 1998!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlantis of the North [015] was the third book written by Dr J\u00fcrgen Spanuth on the subject of Atlantis. His first book[016] published in German, led to court action by Spanuth after being labelled \u2018a peddler of lies\u2019. The matter ended when his detractors, ten professors, admitted that their objections to his work were groundless. […]<\/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":[3909,150,269,3907,232,1406,54,270,1253,60],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ahnenerbe-ss","tag-carolina-bays","tag-helgoland","tag-john-lock","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-medinet-habu","tag-north-sea","tag-phaeton","tag-plagiarism","tag-sea-peoples"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","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=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65549,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/65549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}