{"id":4125,"date":"2010-06-12T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/thompson-edward-herbert\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:18:15","slug":"thompson-edward-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/thompson-edward-herbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Thompson, Edward Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/edward-herbert-hompson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27868\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/edward-herbert-hompson-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"edward herbert hompson\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/edward-herbert-hompson-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/edward-herbert-hompson.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Edward Herbert<\/strong><strong> T<\/strong><strong>hompson<\/strong> <strong>(1856-1935) <\/strong>began a career as an anthropologist in 1879 when he wrote an article<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> in <em>P<\/em><em>opular<\/em><em> S<\/em><em>cience<\/em><em> M<\/em><em>onthly<\/em> that linked the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/maya\/\">Mayan<\/a> culture with Atlantis. He spent the next 40 years working in the Yucatan, making valuable contributions to our knowledge of the Maya. His most impressive discoveries were at Chichen Itza.<\/p>\n<p>Although Thompson subsequently recanted his views on Plato\u2019s lost island, Some Atlantis researchers still quote his earlier opinions.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Popular_Science_Monthly\/Volume_15\/October_1879\/Atlantis_Not_a_Myth\">https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Popular_Science_Monthly\/Volume_15\/October_1879\/Atlantis_Not_a_Myth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Herbert Thompson (1856-1935) began a career as an anthropologist in 1879 when he wrote an article(a) in Popular Science Monthly that linked the Mayan culture with Atlantis. He spent the next 40 years working in the Yucatan, making valuable contributions to our knowledge of the Maya. His most impressive discoveries were at Chichen Itza. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4090,1910,34],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chichen-itza","tag-edward-herbert-thompson","tag-maya"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","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=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69622,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/69622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}