{"id":48942,"date":"2021-04-10T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=48942"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:17:09","slug":"zhang-holden-hong-quan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zhang-holden-hong-quan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhang, Holden (Hong-Quan) *"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Holden (Hong-Quan) Zhang <\/strong>has a PhD in Fluid Mechanics and joined the University of Tulsa in 1998. In 2019, he published Revive Eden: Green Sahara Now. <\/em>[1925<\/a>]<\/sup> which investigates the disappearance of the Green Sahara and the possibility of reversing that event, not just in the Sahara<\/a>, but in other desert regions also. In chapter nine of the 2nd edition of his book, he outlines his Atlantis theory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Additionally, he recently published a YouTube video(a)<\/sup>, in which he places Atlantis in what are now the chotts<\/a> of Tunisia<\/a><\/em> and Algeria<\/a>. Although Zhang endeavours to present this as a new idea, it is not. In fact, it has been around for about a century, with continuous support ever since.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Zhang claims that his theory matches Plato’s description of Atlantis 100%! Wrong again; Plato clearly states twice (Tim.25a-b & Crit.114c)\u00a0 that Atlantean territory included some of North Africa along with<\/em><\/strong> part of southern Italy as well as a number of the islands in the Central Mediterranean<\/a> region. So, in my opinion, Zhang is only partly correct regarding the extent of Atlantean territory. Nevertheless, I think he has made a useful contribution to the Atlantis debate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A full written outline of Zhang’s theory is also available online(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I was amused to read in the same 2021 paper that Zhang wrote as follows about Aristotle’s description of the Atlantic Sea,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“<\/em>This is not a description of the Atlantic that we know, which is not shallow, calm or lying in a hollow and which he refers to as a \u2018sea,\u2019 not an \u2018ocean’.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In 2018, on page 158 of Joining the Dots, <\/em>I wrote;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“<\/em>This is not a description of the Atlantic that we know, which is neither shallow, calm nor lying in a hollow and which Aristotle also refers to as a \u2018sea\u2019 not an \u2018ocean\u2019.”<\/em>!!!!!<\/p>\r\n

A further paper by Zhang was published in 2022 in support of his theories. This time he used details from ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts.(c)\u00a0 <\/sup>Zhang offers a video to accompany the paper(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(a)<\/sup> Revive Eden 3 Convincing Atlantis – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

(b) <\/sup>https:\/\/medcraveonline.com\/IJH\/is-atlantis-related-to-the-green-sahara.html<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/medcraveonline.com\/IJH\/IJH-06-00301.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93bywBXLTiQ&t=938s<\/a>
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Holden (Hong-Quan) Zhang has a PhD in Fluid Mechanics and joined the University of Tulsa in 1998. In 2019, he published Revive Eden: Green Sahara Now. [1925] which investigates the disappearance of the Green Sahara and the possibility of reversing that event, not just in the Sahara, but in other desert regions also. In chapter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,133,931,4589,408,7031,30,233],"class_list":["post-48942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-algeria","tag-aristotle","tag-atlantic-sea","tag-central-mediterranean","tag-chotts","tag-hong-quan-zhang","tag-north-africa","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48942","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=48942"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63988,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48942\/revisions\/63988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}