{"id":40644,"date":"2018-10-30T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=40644"},"modified":"2023-01-25T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T08:43:30","slug":"woudhuizen-fred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/woudhuizen-fred\/","title":{"rendered":"Woudhuizen, Fred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred<\/strong> W<\/strong>oudhuizen <\/strong>(1959-2021)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>is an independent researcher who studies ancient Mediterranean languages and scripts, particularly Luwian<\/a> and Cretan.<\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>Another Dutch linguist Jan Best and Woudhuizen co-authored a paper(e) <\/sup>\u00a0on the Phaistos Disc<\/a> and concluded that “<\/em>Not only the script but the language, too, is very similar to Luwian.”<\/em> If their reading is correct, “the text on the disc intends to settle an ownership dispute in a place called Rhytion near Pyrgos in the southwest of the plain of Messara: The Greek king Nestor has a principality in Crete that includes Knossos and parts of the plain of Lasithi and of the Messara.<\/em>“<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He has also collaborated with Eberhard Zangger <\/a>in identifying the Sea Peoples<\/a> as originating in Western Turkey although Woudhuizen also includes some Central \"\"<\/a>Mediterranean inhabitants among its membership(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

He has published many papers on the academia.edu<\/em> website(b) <\/sup> including one entitled Atlantis in Space and Time<\/em>(c)<\/sup>, in which he claims to have found a reference to Atlantis (ta-ru-nu) in some Cretan hieroglyphics. Jason Colavito <\/a>was not impressed by Woudhuizen’s convoluted argument(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)\u00a0<\/sup> (99+) The Ethnicity of the Sea Peoples (dissertation) | Dr. Fred C. Woudhuizen [ 1959 – 2021 ] – Academia.edu<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/independent.academia.edu\/FredWoudhuizen<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/7960927\/Defining_Atlantis_in_Space_and_Time<\/a><\/p>\n

(d) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/did-the-minoans-record-the-name-of-atlantis-in-cretan-hieroglyphs<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> https:\/\/luwianstudies.org\/the-phaistos-disc\/<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fred Woudhuizen (1959-2021)\u00a0is an independent researcher who studies ancient Mediterranean languages and scripts, particularly Luwian and Cretan. >Another Dutch linguist Jan Best and Woudhuizen co-authored a paper(e) \u00a0on the Phaistos Disc and concluded that “Not only the script but the language, too, is very similar to Luwian.” If their reading is correct, “the text on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[4589,5812,113,5811,7552,1266,4173,626,60],"class_list":["post-40644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-mediterranean","tag-cretan","tag-eberhard-zangger","tag-fred-woudhuizen","tag-jan-best","tag-jason-colavito","tag-luwians","tag-phaistos-disc","tag-sea-peoples"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57545,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40644\/revisions\/57545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}