{"id":68364,"date":"2026-07-24T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=68364"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:44:40","slug":"african-humid-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/african-humid-period\/","title":{"rendered":"African Humid Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong><strong> A<\/strong><strong>frican Humid Period<\/strong> is a description of a time when we had a \u2018Green <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sahara-desert\/\">Sahara<\/a>\u2019, with large lakes and rivers. It is dated to between to around 11,000 and 5,000 years ago. It is attributed to the effects of the 26,000-year-cycle of what is often known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/precession-of-the-equinoxes\/\">precession of the equinoxes<\/a>(a)(b).<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, some researchers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarantitis-george\/\">George Sarantitis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/howard-alfred-j\/\">A.J. Howard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kelley-jack\/\">Jack Kelley <\/a>have placed Atlantis in North Africa during this period.<\/p>\n<p>(a) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_humid_period\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_humid_period<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(b) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277379199000815\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277379199000815<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Humid Period is a description of a time when we had a \u2018Green Sahara\u2019, with large lakes and rivers. It is dated to between to around 11,000 and 5,000 years ago. It is attributed to the effects of the 26,000-year-cycle of what is often known as the precession of the equinoxes(a)(b). In recent [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-68364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364","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=68364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68380,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364\/revisions\/68380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}