{"id":3940,"date":"2010-06-11T18:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spain\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:53:35","slug":"spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/strong>pain<\/strong> has been favoured as a probable location of Atlantis by a sizeable number of investigators, principally Spanish and other Europeans. For about a century attention has been focused on the region of Andalusia<\/a> although one writer, Jorge Mar\u00eda Ribero-Meneses<\/a>, has opted for Cantabria in Northern Spain. The most vocal proponent today of a Spanish Atlantis is\u00a0arguably Georgeos Diaz-Montexano <\/a>who has just begun the publication of a series of books on the subject.<\/p>\n

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Richard Freund<\/a> is a latecomer to the question of Atlantis and recently foisted himself on the excavators in the Do\u00f1ana Marshes<\/a>, announcing\u00a0that the site\u00a0was related to Atlantis\/Tarshish<\/a> and garnering widespread publicity ahead of the publication of his own book on Atlantis!<\/p>\n

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One commentator has suggested that the origin of the name of Spain itself was derived from the Semitic language of the Phoenicians<\/a> who arrived in Spain around 1500 BC. They referred to the region as \u2018span\u2019 or \u2018spania\u2019 which means hidden! Cadiz, equated with Plato\u2019s Gades<\/a>, is frequently cited as the oldest colony of the Phoenicians. The date appears to be based on tradition rather than hard evidence. Archaeology puts the date closer to 800 BC.<\/p>\n

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The oldest Phoenician remains, found in the vicinity of Malaga, were discovered during the recent building of a second runway. The occupation of the site is dated to around 700-600 BC.<\/p>\n

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In September 2012 a report(a)<\/sup> revealed that at the La Bastida site in Murcia, Spain, fortifications dated to 2,200 BC had been discovered and heralded as \u201cContinental Europe\u2019s First Bronze Age City\u201d and \u201cis comparable only to the Minoan civilisation of Crete\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Late November 2018 saw Merlin Burrows (M.B.), a British surveying company, claim to have found Atlantis in Spain close to the Do\u00f1ana National Park (b)<\/sup>. M.B.’s head of research, Tim Akers, claimed that “laboratory analysis of material recovered from Spain showed evidence of a type of cement not seen before.”<\/em> This and evidence of ancient metallurgy was enough for him to conclude that it has come from Atlantis! So now it seems that if something previously unknown is found, it must come from Atlantis! That something has been found is not doubted, but it is more likely to have been the Phoenicians who extensively exploited the rich mineral deposits in the region. Another website offers a more extensive report from Merlin Burrows(g) <\/sup> as well as a review of other failed Atlantis claims.<\/p>\n

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The report contains wild speculation, particularly when claiming that this new discovery dates back to the end of the Last Ice Age when Athens or Egypt did not have structured societies and so could not refer to Plato’s Atlantis. There is little doubt that a number of interesting sites over the 100-mile stretch have been located, but they do not include Atlantis. Expect a flurry of media responses (c) <\/sup> for a while as they await the next wild claim. Meanwhile, Merlin Burrows have had their publicity or so I thought. However, M.B. has now embarked on a publicity campaign promoting a series of new Atlantis films called Atlantica, <\/em>employing director Michael Donnellan to drum up interest(j)<\/sup>. His most recent outing in October 2021 on Spanish TV stirred P.R.Cantos<\/a> to examine some of Donnellan’s dubious claims(k)<\/sup>. Not unexpectedly, further criticism came from sceptic Carl Feagans(l)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Mid 2025 saw Merlin Burrows return with another claim of having located Atlantis and teased us with a promise of an upcoming three-part documentary series that will reveal all! (t) <\/sup>In July 2025, Donnellan endeavoured to revive interest in the idea of a Spanish location for Atlantis near C\u00e1diz(u)<\/sup>, once again receiving widespread media attention(v)<\/sup>. We must keep in mind that finding the submerged remains of buildings under water is not unusual, but claiming that they are the remnants of Atlantis requires a whole new level of evidence.<\/p>\n

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The Do\u00f1ana National Park <\/a>was extensively investigated some years ago and was the subject of a National Geographic<\/em><\/a> documentary, Finding Atlantis<\/em>. Nothing remotely Atlantean was found. For my part, I prefer to follow Plato and point to the only<\/em><\/strong> territory named by him as Atlantean, namely Southern Italy, N.W. Africa and some of the many islands in the region.<\/p>\n

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The Do\u00f1ana story took a new turn yesterday (22.11.18) when Georgeos Diaz-Montexano published a paper on the Academia.edu<\/em> website, in Spanish and English (d)(e)<\/sup>, which completely debunks the foundations of the Merlin Burrows claim. It is interesting to read about the arrogance of the video makers when challenged by Diaz-Montexano. The following day D\u00edaz-Montexano re-posted (f) <\/sup> the paper with additional comments by Professor C\u00e9sar Guarde-Paz, a distinguished Spanish academic, who also denounced the Merlin Burrows claims.<\/p>\n

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Stavros\u00a0Papamarinopoulos<\/a> is also a keen supporter of locating Atlantis in Spain outlining his reasons in a series of papers(m-r)<\/sup> delivered to the 12th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Patras, 2010.<\/p>\n

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In March 2024, the UK\u2019s Express<\/em> newspaper published a report(s)<\/sup> from Spain offering yet another suggestion that Atlantis may<\/em><\/strong> have been discovered off the coast of Spain in the region of Cadiz<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\u201cA team of Spanish researchers\u00a0<\/em>recently reported<\/em>\u00a0the discovery of several large concentric circular structures, resembling artificial walls, which are believed to share similarities with Plato’s accounts of the enigmatic lost city of Atlantis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although Mercedes de Caso Bernal, a renowned historian and archaeologist involved in the discovery, made it clear that the team would not disclose the exact location of their findings, he confirmed that the structures measured up to five meters in height and stretched as long as 450 meters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> La Bastida unearths 4,200-year-old fortification, unique in continental Europe | ScienceDaily<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6393371\/Could-Atlantis-Satellites-spot-ancient-ruins-flooded-Spanish-coast.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weird\/1047375\/atlantis-lost-city-found-plato-atlantica-donana-national-park<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup>\u00a0 \u00bfLA ATL\u00c1NTIDA FINALMENTE DESCUBIERTA? Leer el art\u00edculo en https:\/\/atlantisng.com\/blog\/la-atlantida-finalmente-descubierta-segun-nuevo-documental-britanico-hoax-publicitario-o-el-mayor-de-los-ridiculos\/ (link broken Dec. 2018)<\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> P\u00e1gina no encontrada \u2014 La Atl\u00e1ntida Hist\u00f3rica (archive.org)<\/a>
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(f)<\/sup> P\u00e1gina no encontrada \u2014 La Atl\u00e1ntida Hist\u00f3rica (archive.org)\u00a0<\/a>
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(g) <\/sup>https:\/\/peopleus.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/has-real-lost-city-of-atlantis-finally.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(j) <\/sup>Historians have finally ‘discovered\u2019 enchanted Lost City of Atlantis in southern Spain – Olive Press News Spain (theolivepress.es)<\/a><\/p>\n

(k) <\/sup> Donnellan: new location for Atlantis in front of C\u00e1diz seaside \/ Donnellan: nueva localizaci\u00f3n de la Atl\u00e1ntida frente a las costas de C\u00e1diz (foroactivo.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(l) <\/sup> How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away – Archaeology Review (ahotcupofjoe.net<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(m) <\/sup>(PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN II (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(n)<\/sup> (PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN III (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(o)<\/sup> (PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN IV (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(p)<\/sup> (PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN I (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(q)<\/sup> (PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN VI (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(r)<\/sup> (PDF) ATLANTIS IN SPAIN V (researchgate.net)<\/a>
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(s)<\/sup> Did the lost city of Atlantis really exist? Researchers make shocking discovery | World | News | Express.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

(t)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/another-new-documentary-claims-to-reveal-the-true-location-of-atlantis-again<\/a>
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(u) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/history\/2076083\/Lost-city-Atlantis-FOUND-Archaeologist-shock-claim-underwater-discovery<\/a><\/p>\n

(v) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-15070479\/Joe-Rogan-left-speechless-new-Atlantis-evidence-pinpointing-lost-citys-location.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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