{"id":3435,"date":"2010-06-08T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jordan-paul\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:48:35","slug":"jordan-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jordan-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan, Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul<\/strong> <strong>J<\/strong><strong>ordan <\/strong>studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University and for many years he has written and produced historical and scientific programs for British television. He is the author of a number of books about history and prehistory, including <em>Riddles of the Sphinx<\/em> <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>415<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> and <em>Neanderthal<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">416<\/a><\/sup><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He can be fairly described as a devout sceptic, who has written a broad overview<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>418<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> of the Atlantis debate that is worth reading, \u00a0although at least one commentator has described Jordan\u2019s style as \u2018splenetic<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>A more focused commentary is his critique of <a href=\"#CollinsAndrew\">Andrew Collins<\/a>\u2019s <em>Gateway to Atlantis <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">0072<\/a>]<\/sup><em>,\u00a0<\/em>both in his own book and online, spread over four papers<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mrobsr.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/atlantis-sinking.html#more\">https:\/\/mrobsr.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/atlantis-sinking.html#more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211205075454\/https:\/\/world-news-research.com\/cgatlantis.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211205075454\/https:\/\/world-news-research.com\/cgatlantis.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Jordan studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University and for many years he has written and produced historical and scientific programs for British television. He is the author of a number of books about history and prehistory, including Riddles of the Sphinx [415] and Neanderthal [416]. He can be fairly described as a devout [&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":[195,776,85],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-paul-jordan","tag-sceptic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67098,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/67098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}