{"id":42303,"date":"2019-05-27T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=42303"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:33:56","slug":"costarella-francesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/costarella-francesco\/","title":{"rendered":"Costarella, Francesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francesco Costarella <\/strong>is an Italian researcher, self-described as an &#8216;amateur geologist&#8217;. He has written two books relating to Atlantis. The first<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">1636<\/a>]<\/sup> puts forward the idea that Plato&#8217;s Atlantis and the biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/deluge\/\">Deluge<\/a> are, in the author&#8217;s words, &#8216;two sides of the same coin&#8217;. In the second<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">1637<\/a>]<\/sup>, he identifies <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a> as the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Costarella considers the impact of a massive cosmic body just off the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-messina\/\">Strait of Messina\u00a0<\/a>to be the cause of the Atlantis catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Costarella returned to the subject of Atlantis near Sicily in a third ebook <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">2015<\/a>]<\/sup>, this time in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Costarella is an Italian researcher, self-described as an &#8216;amateur geologist&#8217;. He has written two books relating to Atlantis. The first[1636] puts forward the idea that Plato&#8217;s Atlantis and the biblical Deluge are, in the author&#8217;s words, &#8216;two sides of the same coin&#8217;. In the second[1637], he identifies Sicily as the location of Atlantis. Costarella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-42303","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\/42303","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=42303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66085,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303\/revisions\/66085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}