{"id":4281,"date":"2010-06-13T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T10:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zimbales-mountains\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:50:12","slug":"zimbales-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zimbales-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbales Mountains *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong>Z<\/strong><strong>imbales <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>ountains<\/strong> of the Philippines was the site of the discovery of an unusual stone by a group of fossil collectors in 1985. It measured 11 x 7 inches and was two inches thick. One of the group, 20-year old Ronnie Alonzo, was convinced the markings on the rock were not fossilised insects but in fact were an ancient map. He concluded that it was a world map that included a reference to the location of Atlantis in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Alonzo claims to have researched his theory for twenty years and in 2005 a paper on his theory was one of 34 selected from nearly 200 submitted, to be presented to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-%e2%80%93-melos-2005\/\">Atlantis Conference<\/a> held on the Greek island of Melos. Alonzo is currently pursuing his master&#8217;s degree in archaeology at the University of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Alonzo now supports his theory with a website<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140207173647\/http:\/\/www.keystonecode.org\/html\/\">Keystonecode Research (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbales Mountains of the Philippines was the site of the discovery of an unusual stone by a group of fossil collectors in 1985. It measured 11 x 7 inches and was two inches thick. One of the group, 20-year old Ronnie Alonzo, was convinced the markings on the rock were not fossilised insects but [&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-4281","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\/4281","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=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63991,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions\/63991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}