{"id":68367,"date":"2026-07-24T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=68367"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:47:04","slug":"precession-of-the-equinoxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/precession-of-the-equinoxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Precession of the Equinoxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P<\/strong><strong>recession of the Equinoxes <\/strong>is a term that was commonly used to describe the gradual change in the orientation of the rotational axis of the Earth. This involves a slow process that takes about 26,000 years to complete. The 2nd century BC astronomer Hipparchus is generally thought to have discovered precession(a).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/african-humid-period\/\">African Humid Period<\/a> (11,000-5,000 years ago) is attributed to the effects of precession. It gave us a \u2018Green <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sahara-desert\/\">Sahara<\/a>\u2019 now associated by some modern researchers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarantitis-george\/\">Sarantitis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/howard-alfred-j\/\">Howard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kelley-jack\/\">Kelley<\/a>, with the time and location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>(a) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axial_precession\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axial_precession<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(b) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/knowledge\/library\/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405\/\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/knowledge\/library\/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-paced-by-82884405\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precession of the Equinoxes is a term that was commonly used to describe the gradual change in the orientation of the rotational axis of the Earth. This involves a slow process that takes about 26,000 years to complete. The 2nd century BC astronomer Hipparchus is generally thought to have discovered precession(a). The African Humid Period [&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-68367","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\/68367","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=68367"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68382,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68367\/revisions\/68382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}