{"id":3308,"date":"2010-06-08T08:29:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/guatemala\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:29:49","slug":"guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"

G<\/strong>uatemala<\/strong> in Central America<\/a> is claimed by Duane K. McCullough<\/a> as the site of the main city of Atlantis. He\u00a0states on his website(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> that \u2018new scientific research now suggests that the lost Atlantean capital seaport once existed in Central America near a Guatemalan lake named Izabal\u2019 but fails to source the \u2018new scientific research\u2019. In his book S<\/em>pirit<\/em> of<\/em> A<\/em>tlantis,<\/em> he argues his case, matching Plato\u2019s text with the topography<\/a> of the area. McCullough points out that west of the modern capital, Guatemala City, lies Lake Atitl\u00e1n<\/a> whose name has faint echoes of Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n

Lake Izabal has also been identified as the location of Atlantis by Joachim Rittstieg<\/a> based on his interpretation of the Icelandic Eddas, <\/em>Plato and oral traditions of local Maya.<\/p>\r\n

Guatemala was also home to a giant carved head, supposedly nearly 30 feet in height and known principally from a grainy 1950s black & white photo. The features shown in the photo are completely different to those of the Negroid characteristics on the giant Olmec<\/a> heads found in neighbouring Mexico. It is claimed that the remains of the Guatemalan head were tracked down by Dr Oscar Rafael Padilla Lara and David Hatcher Childress<\/a> in the 1980s(b<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup>. They report that the head had been damaged almost beyond recognition by being extensively used for target practice by revolutionaries.<\/p>\r\n

Another commentator claims that there is a connection between the Basques and Guatemala(<\/sup>c<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

A.R.E.<\/a> is also seeking Edgar Cayce\u2019s<\/a> third Hall of Records <\/em>at Piedras Negras in the north of Guatemala.<\/p>\r\n

\"Lake<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(<\/span><\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> https:\/\/03a9ef9.netsolhost.com\/duanemcc\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(<\/sup>b<\/sup>) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240422232722\/https:\/\/www.infinityexplorers.com\/the-giant-stone-head-of-guatemala-evidence-of-an-ancient-advanced-civilization\/<\/p>\r\n

(<\/sup>c<\/sup>)<\/sup> Private Correspondence (14\/10\/23) {7523P}<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Guatemala in Central America is claimed by Duane K. McCullough as the site of the main city of Atlantis. He\u00a0states on his website(a) that \u2018new scientific research now suggests that the lost Atlantean capital seaport once existed in Central America near a Guatemalan lake named Izabal\u2019 but fails to source the \u2018new scientific research\u2019. In […]<\/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":[196,4081,82,1162,1159,4082,1161,3785],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-r-e","tag-duane-k-mccullough","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-guatemala","tag-joachim-rittstieg","tag-lake-atitlan","tag-lake-izabal","tag-topography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66721,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/66721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}