{"id":3470,"date":"2010-06-09T05:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kerch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:23:55","slug":"kerch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kerch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>K<\/strong><strong>erch<\/strong> is a port city on the Black Sea in Crimea, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>The authors of <em>T<\/em><em>he<\/em><em> A<\/em><em>tlantis<\/em><em> M<\/em><em>otherland<\/em> claim<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> that nearby Mithridates Hill was the original site of the capital city of Atlantis, confirmed by a surrounding topography that matches Plato\u2019s description closely. An interesting detail is that the Strait of Kerch was one of a number of locations\u00a0that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schoch-robert-m\/\">Robert Schoch<\/a> listed as possible Pillars of Heracles in <em>Voices of the Rocks<\/em>\u00a0<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">454<\/a>.87]<\/sup>, although he did not cite a source for the Kerch identification.<\/p>\n<p>that the ancient Greeks referred to as the Pillars of Heracles listed by \u00a0in <em>Voices of the Rocks<\/em> although he did not cite a source for the Kerch identification.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantis-motherland.com\/home.html\">https:\/\/www.atlantis-motherland.com\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerch is a port city on the Black Sea in Crimea, Ukraine. The authors of The Atlantis Motherland claim(a) that nearby Mithridates Hill was the original site of the capital city of Atlantis, confirmed by a surrounding topography that matches Plato\u2019s description closely. An interesting detail is that the Strait of Kerch was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69263,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/69263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}