{"id":6123,"date":"2010-07-21T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:16:01","slug":"siebert-karola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/siebert-karola\/","title":{"rendered":"Siebert, Karola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karola<\/strong> <strong>S<\/strong><strong>iebert (died 1980s), <\/strong>was an archaeologist, variously described as British or German,\u00a0with one site claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Siebert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31470\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Siebert.jpg\" alt=\"siebert\" width=\"191\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>that she had been expelled from Germany<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c)<\/span><\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1958, she claimed to have found evidence of an Atlantis based religious cult in the Manchay Valley of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/peru\/\">Peru<\/a><sup>(a)<\/sup>. She published her findings in a 24-page\u00a0booklet, <em>Atlantis in Peru<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>547<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. She placed Atlantis in the Atlantic where it functioned as a stepping-stone between\u00a0Africa and America<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive excerpts from her book were published in 1968 in Sykes&#8217; <em>Atlantis<\/em> magazine<sup>(d)(e)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I found her work highly speculative and like so many others, offering assertion in place of evidence. In the May 1965\u00a0\u00a0(March\/April editions) of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-bill\/\">Sykes<\/a>&#8216; <em>Atlantis <\/em>magazine, she seems to find \u2018Atlantean\u2019 temples wherever she looks. The following half century has seen little support for her views.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230326063729\/http:\/\/atlantisite.com\/tracesperu.htm\">1965 cont (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Traces_of_Atlantis_in_Peru\">https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Traces_of_Atlantis_in_Peru<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220126111905\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3212\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220126111905\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3212\/<\/a>\u00a0 (English &amp; Spanish)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Vol.21, No.1, Jan-Feb 1968<\/p>\n<p><sup>(e)<\/sup> <em>Atlantis<\/em>, Vol.21, No.2, March-April 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karola Siebert (died 1980s), was an archaeologist, variously described as British or German,\u00a0with one site claiming that she had been expelled from Germany(c).\u00a0 In 1958, she claimed to have found evidence of an Atlantis based religious cult in the Manchay Valley of Peru(a). She published her findings in a 24-page\u00a0booklet, Atlantis in Peru[547]. She placed [&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":[265,2896,4743,19],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-egerton-sykes","tag-karola-siebert","tag-mancha-valley","tag-peru"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","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=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65156,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions\/65156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}