{"id":29119,"date":"2015-12-11T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29119"},"modified":"2026-03-14T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:30:06","slug":"honduras-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/honduras-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60376 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras-271x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras-271x300.webp 271w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras-925x1024.webp 925w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras-768x851.webp 768w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Honduras.webp 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>H<\/strong><strong>onduras,<\/strong> or more correctly, the islands of Roatan and nearby Helene, part of the Bay Islands, were brought to wider attention over a century ago by Broughton Brandenburg, an American magazine writer. In the April 1906 edition of <em>Appleton\u2019s Booklovers Magazine, <\/em>he suggested that a discovery of submerged artefacts near Islas de Bahia (Bay Islands) off the coast of Honduras might be remnants of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Three decades later, in 1936, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mitchell-hedges-frederick-albert\/\">F.A. Mitchell-Hedges<\/a> also claimed that the Bay Islands had a possible Atlantean connection<sup>(a)<\/sup>.\u00a0Specifically, he announced that on the island of Helene that <em>&#8220;we unearthed an ancient city of considerable size.<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup><em> He said that he came to the conclusion that in Helene he had found the highlands of a vast continent which was submerged by the Flood.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter are best known for the <strong>claimed<\/strong> discovery there of the most perfect <a href=\"#Crystals\">crystal skull<\/a> ever found.<b> <\/b>However, question marks still hang over the provenance of the skull and Brandenburg appears to have been something of a fraudster!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/55569660?searchTerm=Atlantis%20discovered&amp;searchLimits=\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/ndp\/del\/article\/55569660?searchTerm=Atlantis discovered&amp;searchLimits=<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog\/index.php?title=Relikte_eines_kleinen_Atlantis&amp;_x_tr_sl=de&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Relics of a Small Atlantis \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honduras, or more correctly, the islands of Roatan and nearby Helene, part of the Bay Islands, were brought to wider attention over a century ago by Broughton Brandenburg, an American magazine writer. In the April 1906 edition of Appleton\u2019s Booklovers Magazine, he suggested that a discovery of submerged artefacts near Islas de Bahia (Bay Islands) [&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":[2259,3632,3995,3996,4359,3633,4360],"class_list":["post-29119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-broughton-brandenburg","tag-crystal-skull","tag-f-a-mitchell-hedges","tag-helene","tag-honduras","tag-roatan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119","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=29119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66821,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29119\/revisions\/66821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}