{"id":57662,"date":"2023-02-12T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=57662"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:20:56","slug":"meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong> <strong>Mr<\/strong><strong> M<\/strong><strong>eyer<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong>thought to be an archaeologist, was the source of a claim in some newspapers in 1885 that he had discovered stone tablets on the island of Zapatera in Lake Nicaragua, which had a map of the world depicting a large island in the Atlantic which Mr. Meyer identified as Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup>. Not the most credible story I&#8217;ve read. I note that this was written just a few years after <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> published his ground-breaking book.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog\/index.php?title=Die_Atlantis-Karte_des_Mr._Meyer_(1885)&amp;_x_tr_sl=de&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Mr. Meyer&#8217;s Atlantis map (1885) \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mr Meyer, thought to be an archaeologist, was the source of a claim in some newspapers in 1885 that he had discovered stone tablets on the island of Zapatera in Lake Nicaragua, which had a map of the world depicting a large island in the Atlantic which Mr. Meyer identified as Atlantis(a). Not the [&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":[40,108,7572,7570,7571],"class_list":["post-57662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-lake-nicaragua","tag-mr-meyer","tag-zapatera-island"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57662","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=57662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67489,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57662\/revisions\/67489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}