{"id":4264,"date":"2010-06-13T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zapp-ivar\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:36:00","slug":"zapp-ivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zapp-ivar\/","title":{"rendered":"Zapp, Ivar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Zapp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28013\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Zapp-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zapp\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Zapp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Zapp.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Ivar <\/strong><strong>Z<\/strong><strong>app <\/strong>is a former professor of design at the architecture school of Universidad de <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/costa-rica\/\">Costa Rica<\/a> and co-author, with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erikson-george\/\">George Erikson<\/a>, of\u00a0<em>Atlantis in America<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><sup>244<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that links Atlantis with the ancient cultures of Central America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zapp gave a talk in 2005 in which he identified a location in southwest Costa Rica as the site of Plato\u2019s Atlantis<sup>(b)<\/sup>. The Amazon customer reviews\u00a0are worth a look<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 Zapp revealed that he was planning to publish a second book, <em>Babel Deciphered, <\/em>which will reveal that a maritime civilisation existed globally thousands of years before the Greeks, Egyptians and Sumerians and that this civilisation created the world&#8217;s first language<sup>(c)<\/sup>. It appears that so far he has not found a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Atlantis, the same report noted that Zapp commenting on the fall of Atlantis,\u00a0 said &#8220;<em>that (it) was not the literal collapse of a continent into the ocean, but the collapse of knowledge that plunged the world into a dark age where people forgot the language and navigation techniques pioneered by a civilization in the Americas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlantis-America-Navigators-Ancient-World\/product-reviews\/0932813526\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atlantis-America-Navigators-Ancient-World\/product-reviews\/0932813526<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> See <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2537\/\">Archive 2537<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prestige-ocean-properties.com\/blogs\/michael_mills\/archive\/2012\/10\/13\/unusual-theory-about-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica.aspx\">https:\/\/www.prestige-ocean-properties.com\/blogs\/michael_mills\/archive\/2012\/10\/13\/unusual-theory-about-stone-spheres-in-costa-rica.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivar Zapp is a former professor of design at the architecture school of Universidad de Costa Rica and co-author, with George Erikson, of\u00a0Atlantis in America[244] that links Atlantis with the ancient cultures of Central America. &nbsp; Zapp gave a talk in 2005 in which he identified a location in southwest Costa Rica as the site [&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":[2259,4340,450,2555,455,409,454,132,741],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-babel","tag-costa-rica","tag-egyptians","tag-george-erikson","tag-greeks","tag-ivar-zapp","tag-plato","tag-sumerians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264","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=4264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64270,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4264\/revisions\/64270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}