{"id":3075,"date":"2010-06-06T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:19:51","slug":"meester-e-j-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meester-e-j-de\/","title":{"rendered":"de Meester, E.J."},"content":{"rendered":"

E.J.<\/strong> d<\/strong>e <\/strong>M<\/strong>eester <\/strong>is a Dutch researcher who is best known for his support for the controversial theory that Homer<\/a>\u2019s Odysseus travelled to Ireland<\/a> and Britain<\/a>. However, he goes further and argues that Atlantis was located in England, situated just south of Stonehenge, on a plain between Salisbury and Chichester.<\/p>\n

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His website, which was well worth a visit, is now discontinued, but can still be accessed on the archive.org website(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

De Meester recognised that Plato\u2019s mention of elephants<\/a> in Atlantis presented a problem for his proposed English location and struggled to explain them away. He flirted with the idea that the elephants were possibly mammoths, Scottish Highland cattle and eventually settled for walruses!<\/p>\n

De Meester is critical of Graham Hancock<\/a>‘s hyperdiffusionist concept of Atlantis commenting that “<\/em>In 1999 Discovery Channel broadcast a three-part series called\u00a0‘Quest for the lost Civilisation’.\u00a0In it, Graham Hancock stated that the pyramids<\/a>, Angkor Vat, Stonehenge<\/a>, the stones of Carnac<\/a>, the Nazca<\/a> lines, temples in Mexico and the statues of Easter Island<\/a> were all part of an ancient global civilisation of seafarers who were apparently obsessed by astrology. The temples of Angkor Vat (in Cambodia) were said to be built in the shape of the zodiac sign Draco, the pyramids of Gizeh in the shape of Sirius<\/a>; the Sphinx<\/a> is supposed to be looking at the sign of Leo. It’s all rather vague. Hard to say whether it’s nonsense or not. More information can be found in Hancocks books, like ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’\u00a0<\/em>[0275<\/a>]<\/sup> and ‘Heaven’s Mirror’\u00a0<\/em>[0855<\/a>]<\/sup>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090614050055\/https:\/\/home-3.tiscali.nl\/~meester7\/engatlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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