{"id":3683,"date":"2010-06-10T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mestdaghmarcel\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:16:05","slug":"mestdaghmarcel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mestdaghmarcel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mestdagh, Marcel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcel<\/strong> M<\/strong>estdagh<\/strong>, <\/strong>(1926-1990) <\/strong>was a Belgian historian whose curiosity was \"Sens<\/a>sparked by the discovery of unusual street patterns in the Belgian city of Ghent. This led to a lifelong interest in the Viking culture that had settled on both sides of the English Channel. It was this study of the Vikings that led him to realise that they had knowledge, now forgotten, of the purpose of many of the megalithic monuments which Mestdagh identified as a form of a road system, laid out in giant ovals with radials. At the centre of these ovals was the ancient city of Sens<\/a> where the greatest concentration of megalithic monuments in France<\/a> existed.<\/p>\n

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The late Philip Coppens informed us[1275<\/a>.184]<\/sup> that a further strange discovery by Mestdagh was that the ancient road network he identified, centred on Sens, was mirrored by a similar network of roads in England centred on Nottingham!><\/strong><\/span>><\/span><\/strong>Mestdagh’s findings brings to mind another strange discovery in France claimed by Xavier Guichard (1870-1947) who was a police detective and philologist. Between 1911 and 1936 he carried out an extensive study of French place-names and found that there were at least 400 sites with names derived from Alesia and centred on today’s town of Alaise. When mapped, these hundreds of sites all lay on lines radiating from Alaise, reminiscent of Alfred Watkins leylines!<<<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the course of his investigations, Mestdagh discovered an aspect of the \"mestdagh\"<\/a>Stonehenge<\/a>-Avebury complex that had been overlooked, namely that the two sites were situated on the circumference of a huge oval. He further discovered that this oval was on a scale of 1\/10th of the ovals that he had discovered in France. It will be obvious that ovals can be drawn using any two points.<\/p>\n

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{Filip} Philip Coppens<\/a>, following Mestdagh\u2019s work, has persuasively argued that Atlantis was the centre of a far-flung megalithic civilisation\u00a0with its centre located where the ancient city of Sens<\/a> now stands(e)<\/sup>. Coppens returned to Mestdagh’s theories in his 2012 book, The Lost Civilisation Enigma<\/em>[<\/sup>1275<\/a>]<\/sup>, which in turn led to two supportive essays from Bruce Jeffries-Fox<\/a> in 2015(c)(d)<\/sup>,\u00a0who includes the observation that while Coppens was initially happy to follow Mestdagh and identify Sens as Atlantis he executed a volte-face and declared that \u201cfrom c. 4500 to 1200BC, a major civilization existed in Europe about which we know very little<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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In a 1997 lecture<\/span>(f) <\/sup>Coppens said <\/span>“I believe that the megalithic civilization was instrumental in creating and propagating certain knowledge about things we are only now beginning to realise…….I wholeheartedly believe the megalithic civilization unravel certain enigmas that the Great Pyramid and all the wonders of Egypt and Sumer combined will not be able to solve.”\u00a0<\/em>Unfortunately, Coppens did not elaborate on the enigmas that he was referring to.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Dutch website(a)<\/sup> give a brief overview of Mestdagh’s theory. Mestdagh’s Atlantis ideas were published posthumously by Coppens in two books, Atlantis<\/em> [1289<\/a>]<\/sup> and Pre-Atlantis<\/em>[1290<\/a>]<\/sup>, both in Dutch.<\/p>\n

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A YouTube clip(b)<\/span><\/sup> also gives some idea of Mestdagh’s theory.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.kunstgeografie.nl\/mestdagh1.htm (Dutch) (link broken)<\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hUHe8iOojqc<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Atlantis in France 1 (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> Atlantis in France 2 (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.eyeofthepsychic.com\/megaliths\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(f) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.eyeofthepsychic.com\/orlando97\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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