{"id":3401,"date":"2010-06-08T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2024-08-31T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T09:05:19","slug":"jaen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jaen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja\u00e9n"},"content":{"rendered":"

J<\/strong>a\u00e9n <\/strong>is a large town north of Granada in Andalusia<\/a>, Spain, which Georgeos D\u00edaz-Montexano<\/a> has claimed had an ancient configuration consisting of concentric rings<\/a> similar to Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis. He supports this idea with an extensive website(a)<\/sup> concerning the city. Elsewhere(b)<\/sup> he includes an image of concentric rings painted on pottery found in Ja\u00e9n, which is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. (see image here)<\/p>\r\n

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Atlantisforschung<\/em> has an interesting article about Ja\u00e9n, including comments from Diaz-Montexano in which he excludes Ja\u00e9n as the site of Atlantis>><\/span><\/strong>on the grounds of its elevation (1180 ft.) and distance from the sea (75 miles)(c)<\/sup>.<<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Stuart Webb in his brief book[<\/sup>1153<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> noted that “the Romans called this strange place ‘Auringis’ from the Greek ‘Ouringis’ although neither Romans nor Greeks were its builders. D\u00edaz-Montexano speculates that Auringis or Ouringis translates into the ‘city of the rings’ from an ancient Indo-European word meaning the ‘Ring’.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

(<\/span><\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a> (English & Spanish)<\/p>\r\n

(b<\/span><\/sup>) <\/sup>Reportaje “Expedici\u00f3n Ja\u00e9n Atlante 2019” con Georgeos D\u00edaz-Montexano – ARGARICA (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0(Spanish)<\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/sup> Ja\u00e9n in Andalusia – a daughter city of Atlantis? \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a> (English)
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