{"id":3255,"date":"2010-06-07T19:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/from-atlantis-to-the-sphinx\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:07:46","slug":"from-atlantis-to-the-sphinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/from-atlantis-to-the-sphinx\/","title":{"rendered":"From Atlantis to the Sphinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-to-the-Sphinx-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34133\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-to-the-Sphinx-Cover-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-to-the-Sphinx-Cover-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-to-the-Sphinx-Cover.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>F<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>rom<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>tlantis<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>to<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> S<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>phinx:<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> R<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ecovering<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> L<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ost<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> W<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>isdom<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>of the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ncient<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> W<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>orld<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><strong>335<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-colin\/\">Colin Wilson<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>presents the idea that the inhabitants of Atlantis were the precursors of the ancient Egyptians, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/maya\/\">Maya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aztecs\/\">Aztecs<\/a>. He perceives Atlantis as a seafaring nation with worldwide reach. He contends that Atlantis was originally located in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/antarctica\/\">Antarctica<\/a> and was destroyed in a worldwide catastrophe. This theme is developed further in a second book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\"><sup>063<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that Wilson co-authored with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/flem-ath-rand-and-rose\/\">Rand Flem-Ath<\/a>. More recently, Wilson has altered his views and supported <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarmast-robert-behzad\/\">Robert Sarmast\u2019s<\/a> claim for Atlantis being located off <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cyprus\/\">Cyprus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To support an extended antiquity for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a>, he outlines evidence for a 10500 BC construction date for the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sphinx\/\">Sphinx<\/a>. Unfortunately, most of his &#8216;evidence&#8217; is a re-working of information to be found elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Atlantis to the Sphinx: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World [335] by Colin Wilson, presents the idea that the inhabitants of Atlantis were the precursors of the ancient Egyptians, as well as the Maya and Aztecs. He perceives Atlantis as a seafaring nation with worldwide reach. He contends that Atlantis was originally [&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":[91,278,443,105,34,338,197,155],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antarctica","tag-aztecs","tag-colin-wilson","tag-egypt","tag-maya","tag-rand-flem-ath","tag-robert-sarmast","tag-sphinx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66459,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/66459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}