{"id":13720,"date":"2011-02-03T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:38:59","slug":"saba-pier-paolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/saba-pier-paolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Saba, Pier Paolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pier Paolo Saba <\/strong><strong>(1947- ) <\/strong>was born in Cagliari, Sardinia and since childhood has been fascinated with archaeology. In 2009, he published <em>Atlantide \u2013 Sardegna Nuova Atlantide?<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">739<\/a>]<\/sup> (Atlantis \u2013 Sardinia the New Atlantis) in which he locates Atlantis in the Atlantic, although\u00a0 he thinks that the Pillars of Heracles were situated between Sicily and Tunisia<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He then suggests that following a catastrophe around 10,000 BC, Atlantis was destroyed and survivors were dispersed to the Americas, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean. One group settled in Saba\u2019s native Sardinia, where they became the Shardana and were responsible for the building of the thousands of nuraghi found throughout the island, and<br \/>\nwere part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples <\/a>who attacked Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250127053901\/https:\/\/www.abovetopsecret.com\/forum\/thread345932\/pg1\">Atlantis &#8211; Sardinia studies, page 1 (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.commuicati-stampa.ws\/2009\/02\/10\/1413\u00a0 (Italian) (Link broken)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pier Paolo Saba (1947- ) was born in Cagliari, Sardinia and since childhood has been fascinated with archaeology. In 2009, he published Atlantide \u2013 Sardegna Nuova Atlantide?[739] (Atlantis \u2013 Sardinia the New Atlantis) in which he locates Atlantis in the Atlantic, although\u00a0 he thinks that the Pillars of Heracles were situated between Sicily and Tunisia(a)(b). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[5263,48,100,60,101,233],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pier-paolo-saba","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-sardinia","tag-sea-peoples","tag-sicily","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","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=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68197,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions\/68197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}