{"id":2943,"date":"2010-06-06T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T09:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cappellano-pippo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:41:49","slug":"cappellano-pippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cappellano-pippo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cappellano, Pippo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pippo <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>appellano<\/strong>, a respected underwater explorer, discovered unusual basaltic ruins, while working at a depth of 50ft off the coast of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands in 1981. Apart from large flat blocks spread over an area of 900 sq.ft., which looked as if they had been carefully positioned, there were also steps and a wall of regularly shaped triangular blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Cappellano\u2019s discovery is regularly touted as evidence for the existence of Atlantis, but does not stand up to scrutiny. Basalt can be found with regular geometric shapes when produced under particular conditions of temperature and pressure, as is the case at \u2018The Giant\u2019s Causeway\u2019 in Northern Ireland and its counterpart across the sea on Scotland&#8217;s, Isle of Staffa.<\/p>\n<p>If Cappellano\u2019s find is in fact artificial then it only proves that it was manmade, like so many ancient features around the world. It does not prove that it was part of Atlantis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippo Cappellano, a respected underwater explorer, discovered unusual basaltic ruins, while working at a depth of 50ft off the coast of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands in 1981. Apart from large flat blocks spread over an area of 900 sq.ft., which looked as if they had been carefully positioned, there were also steps and a [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2943","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\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65929,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/65929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}