{"id":3123,"date":"2010-06-07T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dietrich-thomas-k\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:13:57","slug":"dietrich-thomas-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dietrich-thomas-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietrich, Thomas K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thomas Karl<\/strong><strong> D<\/strong><strong>ietrich <\/strong><strong>(1948-2017) <\/strong>was born in Germany but now lives in the USA. In his 2005\u00a0book, <em>The Origin of Culture<\/em>, based on forty years of research<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><sup>217<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, he locates the \u2018original\u2019 Atlantis in America and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/T.K.Dietrich.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24611\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/T.K.Dietrich.png\" alt=\"T.K.Dietrich\" width=\"141\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>identifies <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/morocco-revised\/\">Morocco<\/a> as one of its principal colonies. He contends that from Morocco, Atlantean culture first spread to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a> and afterwards to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> and Egypt. His book contains an overwhelming number of references to support his thesis and he is currently working on a follow-up book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He believes that Culture and Science spread through the Mediterranean from the west (Morocco) and that Civilisation (urbanisation) spread from the west.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 he published <em>The Culture of Astronomy<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1021<\/a>]<\/sup>, which has the explanatory subtitle of \u201c<em>Origin of Number, Geometry, Science, Law, and Religion.\u201d <\/em>There is a full YouTube lecture by Dietrich\u00a0related to\u00a0 this book<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A critical review of Dietrich&#8217;s book should also be considered <sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1CmiSxf4sn4\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1CmiSxf4sn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190328061303\/https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2006\/2006-06-32.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190328061303\/https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2006\/2006-06-32.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Karl Dietrich (1948-2017) was born in Germany but now lives in the USA. In his 2005\u00a0book, The Origin of Culture, based on forty years of research[217], he locates the \u2018original\u2019 Atlantis in America and identifies Morocco as one of its principal colonies. He contends that from Morocco, Atlantean culture first spread to Ireland and [&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":[294,184,59,5197],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ireland","tag-libya","tag-morocco","tag-thomas-karl-dietrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63686,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/63686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}