{"id":54622,"date":"2022-06-02T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=54622"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:45:59","slug":"le-plongeon-alice-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/le-plongeon-alice-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alice Dixon<\/strong><strong> L<\/strong><strong>e Plongeon <\/strong><strong>(1851-1910) <\/strong>was the wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/le-plongeon-augustus\/\">Augustus Le Plongeon<\/a> and the daughter of Henry Dixon, a pioneering British <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alice_Dixon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54627 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alice_Dixon-160x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alice_Dixon-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Alice_Dixon.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>photographer. She was a keen photographer herself as well as an amateur archaeologist and author. The Le Plongeons were among the first to study the Maya sites of Chichen Itza and Uxmal. She wrote articles and lectured on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/maya\/\">Maya<\/a> culture and also had an interest in spiritualism and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theosophy\/\">Theosophy<\/a>. Although they worked together, the Le Plongeons developed slightly different theories regarding the origins of the Maya. One of her eye-catching claims was that the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eden-2\/\">Garden of Eden<\/a> had been located in Central America<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog\/index.php?title=Alice_Dixon_Le_Plongeon&amp;_x_tr_sl=es&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Alice Dixon Le Plongeon \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog).<\/a>\u00a0Clinch Valley News, August 3, 1888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851-1910) was the wife of Augustus Le Plongeon and the daughter of Henry Dixon, a pioneering British photographer. She was a keen photographer herself as well as an amateur archaeologist and author. The Le Plongeons were among the first to study the Maya sites of Chichen Itza and Uxmal. She wrote [&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":[7270,139,4090,383,7272,34,353,7271],"class_list":["post-54622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alice-dixon-le-plongeon","tag-augustus-le-plongeon","tag-chichen-itza","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-henry-dixon","tag-maya","tag-theosophy","tag-uxmal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54622","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=54622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67262,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54622\/revisions\/67262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}