{"id":3679,"date":"2010-06-10T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meroe\/"},"modified":"2020-12-08T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T10:13:48","slug":"meroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meroe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mero\u00eb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Island of<\/strong><strong> M<\/strong><strong>ero\u00eb<\/strong> is the name given by some classical writers to the land bounded by the White Nile, Blue Nile and Atbara rivers. Mero\u00eb has over two hundred pyramids, built with their own distinctive style<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(d)<\/span><\/sup>.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ghembaza-therese\/\">Th\u00e9r\u00ease Ghembaza<\/a> submitted a paper to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-2008\/\">2008 Atlantis Conference<\/a>, suggesting that Plato\u2019s \u2018Atlantida <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meroe-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26115\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meroe-Island-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Meroe Island\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meroe-Island-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meroe-Island.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>nesos\u2019 was in fact this \u2018island\u2019 of Mero\u00eb. Her theory, which matches many, but not all, of the details provided by Plato, can now be read online<strong><sup>(a)(b)<\/sup><\/strong>. For example, she does not attempt to explain Plato\u2019s reference to the Atlanteans having control of the Western Mediterranean as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tyrrhenia\/\">Tyrrhenia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ghembazza has offered a short paper in support of her belief that the Pillars of Heracles were situated at <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bab-el-mandeb\/\">Bab-el-Mandeb<\/a><sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.antiqua91.fr\/cariboost_files\/meroechapitre_20i_2021_20september_202009.pdf (link broken Dec. 2020)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110720204835\/http:\/\/www.antiqua91.fr\/cariboost_files\/ARTICLE_20Atlantia_201_20col_20english.pdf\">Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/title-1\/\">https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/title-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2015\/05\/the-forgotten-pyramids-of-meroe\/392312\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2015\/05\/the-forgotten-pyramids-of-meroe\/392312\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Island of Mero\u00eb is the name given by some classical writers to the land bounded by the White Nile, Blue Nile and Atbara rivers. Mero\u00eb has over two hundred pyramids, built with their own distinctive style(d).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Th\u00e9r\u00ease Ghembaza submitted a paper to the 2008 Atlantis Conference, suggesting that Plato\u2019s \u2018Atlantida nesos\u2019 was in fact [&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":[1192,2808,3775,184,48,420,1376,2439],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-atlantis-conference","tag-bab-el-mandeb","tag-island-of-meroe","tag-libya","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-pyramids","tag-therese-ghembaza","tag-tyrrhenia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47538,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/47538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}