{"id":3045,"date":"2010-06-06T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cooper-george-h\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:19:02","slug":"cooper-george-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cooper-george-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper, George H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George H.<\/strong> <strong>C<\/strong><strong>ooper<\/strong> <strong>(1859-1943) <\/strong>was an American writer who produced\u00a0two books in which he\u00a0claimed that ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/britain\/\">Britain<\/a>\u00a0was the starting place of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/G.H.-Cooper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27607\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/G.H.-Cooper.png\" alt=\"G.H. Cooper\" width=\"177\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>civilisation.\u00a0 In the first, <em>Ancient Britain: The Cradle of Civilisation<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">236<\/a>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>among a number of daring claims, he proposes that the Garden of Eden had been situated on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire near Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p>This book covers a range of subjects: ancient Britain, prehistoric America, Atlantis, ancient calendars, etc. Cooper also produced a couple of volumes devoted to ancient mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to Atlantis, Cooper identifies Britain and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a> as\u00a0its location\u00a0and was convinced that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/stonehenge-new\/\">Stonehenge<\/a> was the Pillars of Hercules.<\/p>\n<p>His second offering, <em>The Druid Bible<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">237<\/a>]<\/sup> appears to be just a reworking of much of the material in the first, once again promoting the theme of Britain as the source of civilisation, but venturing further with a discussion of the Trojan War, Easter Island and Mexico. Writing over a century ago, Cooper, although American, speculated that &#8216;ancient Mexico enjoyed a British civilization&#8217;<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">236<\/a>.187]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He also refers to Ireland, claiming that \u201cin fact, in Plato\u2019s story, there are geographical descriptions which will correspond to the physical features of Ireland; so well indeed, that it is impossible to disconnect that island from the scheme.\u201d He goes further and specifies Cork harbour as the most likely candidate as the harbour of Atlantis, although he confesses that this idea \u201cfits Plato\u2019s narrative very well <em>if we leave out the geometric circles, etc.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George H. Cooper (1859-1943) was an American writer who produced\u00a0two books in which he\u00a0claimed that ancient Britain\u00a0was the starting place of civilisation.\u00a0 In the first, Ancient Britain: The Cradle of Civilisation[236], among a number of daring claims, he proposes that the Garden of Eden had been situated on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire near Stonehenge. 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