{"id":4236,"date":"2010-06-13T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wales\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:30:32","slug":"wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>W<\/strong><strong>ales,<\/strong> or more precisely an area off the west coast of Wales, is considered by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ice-AgeBritish_Isles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28261\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ice-AgeBritish_Isles-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ice AgeBritish_Isles\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ice-AgeBritish_Isles-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Ice-AgeBritish_Isles.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dunbavin-paul\/\">Paul Dunbavin<\/a> to be the location of sunken Atlantis<sup>(c<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>. His well researched books <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">099<\/a>][<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">101<\/a>][<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1627<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0 investigate in detail the mythology of the region together with the underwater topography of the Irish Sea and relates these to Plato\u2019s narrative. It is generally accepted that at the end of the last Ice Age, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/britain\/\">Britain<\/a> were joined and that the Irish Sea was\u00a0a much reduced inland lake. As the ice melted the seas gradually advanced separating the higher land into what are now geographically known as the British Isles. A memory of these events is possibly contained in the ancient Welsh Triads<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>, where reference to great <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/deluge-of-noah\/\">floods<\/a> can be found. However, Dunbavin\u2019s attempt to link these floods with the inundation of Atlantis is not fully convincing. Similar floods occurred all over the world including the Baltic, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/caribbean-atlantis\/\">Caribbean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/indonesia-3\/\">Indonesia<\/a> but in common with Wales there is no connection between any of them and a war with Athens or <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, in October 2004 the British newspaper,<em>The Guardian, <\/em>perhaps slightly tongue-in-cheek, compared some of Wales&#8217; features with Plato&#8217;s description of Atlantis, although the reference to elephants ended the comparison <sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalcv.org.uk\/rulersbc.html\">https:\/\/www.thenationalcv.org.uk\/rulersbc.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2004\/oct\/06\/eu.guardianleaders\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2004\/oct\/06\/eu.guardianleaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>c<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.third-millennium.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.third-millennium.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales, or more precisely an area off the west coast of Wales, is considered by Paul Dunbavin to be the location of sunken Atlantis(c). His well researched books [099][101][1627]\u00a0 investigate in detail the mythology of the region together with the underwater topography of the Irish Sea and relates these to Plato\u2019s narrative. It is generally [&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":[120,1016,3926,1015,1017],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ice-age","tag-paul-dunbavin","tag-the-guardian","tag-wales","tag-welsh-triads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50632,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/50632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}