{"id":50301,"date":"2021-08-07T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=50301"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:01:56","slug":"koutoupis-petros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/koutoupis-petros\/","title":{"rendered":"Koutoupis, Petros"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Koutoupis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59748 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Koutoupis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Koutoupis.jpg 192w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Koutoupis-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Koutoupis-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Petros Koutoupis <\/strong>is an independent researcher with a special interest in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods of the Eastern Mediterranean and the general Near East<sup>(a)<\/sup>. He is the author of several books and a number of articles on subjects peripheral to Atlantean studies<sup>(b)<\/sup>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/trojan-war-n\/\">Trojan War<\/a>, the Bible and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/thera\/\">Thera<\/a>. To his credit, Koutoupis is not given to making wild attention-seeking claims.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>His <em>Digging up the Past <\/em>website is worth a visit<sup>(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Of interest to our project is his short but favourable review of Eric H.Cline&#8217;s <em>1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed<\/em><sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-author-profiles\/petros-koutoupis-001606\">https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-author-profiles\/petros-koutoupis-001606<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250121211432\/https:\/\/petroskoutoupis.com\/publications\/\">Publications \u2013 Petros Koutoupis (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/book-reviews\/1177-bc-year-civilization-collapsed-001685?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diggingupthepast.net\/\">https:\/\/www.diggingupthepast.net\/<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> *<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petros Koutoupis is an independent researcher with a special interest in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age periods of the Eastern Mediterranean and the general Near East(a). He is the author of several books and a number of articles on subjects peripheral to Atlantean studies(b), including the Sea Peoples, the Trojan War, the Bible [&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":[47,7439,5943,60,31,382],"class_list":["post-50301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bible","tag-eric-h-cline","tag-petros-koutoupis","tag-sea-peoples","tag-thera","tag-trojan-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301","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=50301"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67166,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50301\/revisions\/67166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}