{"id":4116,"date":"2010-06-12T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-riddle-of-prehistoric-britain\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:17:16","slug":"the-riddle-of-prehistoric-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-riddle-of-prehistoric-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>T<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>he<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> R<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>iddle<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>of<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> P<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>rehistoric<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> B<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>ritain<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><strong>562<\/strong><\/a><strong>],<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/beaumont-william-comyns\/\">W. Comyns Beaumont<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>proposed that the British Isles had been the location of Atlantis and that a cometary impact in 1322 BC destroyed its Atlantean settlements. He contends that this comet was subsequently named Satan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beaumont\u2019s delightfully eccentric views include the suggestion that the civilisations of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a>, Greece and Phoenicia, all had their origins in Northern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The foreword can be read online<sup>(a)<\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;&gt;<\/span><\/strong>as well as the complete text<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180330193715\/http:\/twelvearound1.com\/forewordrpb.html\">Riddle of Prehistoric Britain &#8211; Author&#8217;s Foreword (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/riddle-of-prehistoric-britain-1\/page\/n133\/mode\/2up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/riddle-of-prehistoric-britain-1\/page\/n133\/mode\/2up<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain [562], by W. Comyns Beaumont, proposed that the British Isles had been the location of Atlantis and that a cometary impact in 1322 BC destroyed its Atlantean settlements. He contends that this comet was subsequently named Satan. &nbsp; Beaumont\u2019s delightfully eccentric views include the suggestion that the civilisations of Egypt, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62754,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/62754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}