{"id":24445,"date":"2014-08-07T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=24445"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:54:58","slug":"bardanzellu-federico-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bardanzellu-federico-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardanzellu, Federico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federico Bardanzellu <\/strong><strong>(1954- ) <\/strong>is a Roman researcher<sup>(a)<\/sup> with a special interest in Mediterranean prehistory. His \u2018Dolmen Museum\u2019 website<sup>(b)<\/sup> has particular relevance for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantology\/\">Atlantology<\/a>, as in it he discusses, in<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bardanzellu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24450\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bardanzellu-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Bardanzellu\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bardanzellu-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bardanzellu.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a> some detail, the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples<\/a><sup>(c)<\/sup> and their connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sardinia-amended\/\">Sardinia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/corsica\/\">Corsica<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\"> Sicily <\/a>as well as the Italian mainland. He claims that Homer\u2019s Odysseus did not sail in the Okeanos beyond Gibraltar but instead voyaged in the Tyrrhenian Sea. He identifies <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tarshish\/\">Tarshish<\/a> with the Sardinian Tharros and places the Pillars of Hercules in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-sicily\/\">Strait of Sicily <\/a>on the island of Motya off the west coast of Sicily. Although he refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sergio-frau\/\">Sergio Frau<\/a>\u2019s location for the \u2018Pillars\u2019, he does not specifically mention Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>Bardanzellu has also published a book on the earliest inhabitants of Italy entitled <em>Gli Antenati Che Vennero dal Mare<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">1017<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Although his website has not been updated for over a decade, it does include an interesting study of possible astronomical significance that might be deduced from the orientation of the dolmens on both Corsica and Sardinia.<sup>(d)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220701190531\/https:\/www.bardanzellu.eu\/index.html\">Federico Bardanzellu Home Page (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/\">http:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/popomare.html\">http:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/popomare.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/englisharcheoastr.html\">https:\/\/www.museodeidolmen.it\/englisharcheoastr.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Bardanzellu (1954- ) is a Roman researcher(a) with a special interest in Mediterranean prehistory. His \u2018Dolmen Museum\u2019 website(b) has particular relevance for Atlantology, as in it he discusses, in some detail, the Sea Peoples(c) and their connection with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily as well as the Italian mainland. He claims that Homer\u2019s Odysseus did [&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":[2259,186,1756,3303,48,100,60,360,101,38,14],"class_list":["post-24445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantology","tag-corsica","tag-federico-bardanzellu","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-sardinia","tag-sea-peoples","tag-sergio-frau","tag-sicily","tag-strait-of-sicily","tag-tarshish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24445","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=24445"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66646,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24445\/revisions\/66646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}