{"id":3542,"date":"2010-06-09T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lampedusa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:37:40","slug":"lampedusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lampedusa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lampedusa"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/strong>ampedusa<\/strong> is the principal island of the Pelagian<\/a> (Pelagie) archipelago off the coa\"Diego<\/a>st of Tunisia<\/a>, between the African mainland and Malta<\/a>, and is controlled by Italy.<\/p>\n

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Anton Mifsud<\/a> and his co-authors offer evidence[<\/sup>209<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that Atlantis was actually a large island that joined Malta to Lampedusa and contend that the famous archaeological sites on Malta are just remnants of the Atlantean civilisation. However, as can be seen from bathymetric maps, if Malta were joined to Lampedusa, it might also have been connected with what is modern Tunisia, completing the Sicilian land bridge. This claim implies that if true , it is quite probable there was also a Gibraltar Dam<\/a> and during the last Ice Age<\/a>,\u00a0the Mediterranean was reduced to a number of relatively small freshwater lakes.<\/p>\n

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A website(a) <\/sup>published by Diego Ratti<\/a> has now highlighted that tiny Lampedusa has an interesting collection of megalithic remains, including a feature that has been \"Lampedusa\"<\/a>dubbed the \u2018Lampedusa Stonehenge\u2019.A 39-page booklet, by Ratti, which describes this feature in greater detail, can now be downloaded(b)<\/sup>. Ratti is a financial consultant by profession and the author of two books, Wall Street Watchman <\/em>and The Skywatching Trader. <\/em>However, his love of astronomy, archaeology and Lampedusa came together in the development of his website.<\/p>\n

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In 2015, he published, in Italian, a book on the prehistory of Lampedusa, La preistoria di Lampedusa.<\/em> In 2016, Ratti also discovered a “prehistoric underwater place of worship”<\/em> off the eastern coast of the island(c)<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span> which he describes as a temple similar in layout to those found on Malta(d<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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In the Introduction to a 2016 paper describing a prehistoric village on Lampedusa, he wrote “<\/em>A prehistoric hut with Stentinello pottery found in Cala Pisana provided evidence for a late fifth millennium BC colonisation of Lampedusa island by people from Sicily, chronologically around the same time of the Malta early colonisation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2021, Ratti, controversially proposed in his new book\u00a0Atletenu <\/em>[1821<\/a>]<\/sup>, an Egyptian location for Atlantis, centred on the Hyksos<\/a> capital, Avaris<\/a>. Around the same time, he had some of his earlier postings removed from the internet!<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181128232114\/https:\/\/www.megalithic-lampedusa.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> lampedusa-stonehenge (archive.org)<\/a>
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(c)<\/sup>\u00a0Lampedusa: possible underwater prehistoric place of worship | Diego Ratti – Academia.edu (archive.org)<\/a>
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(d)<\/span><\/sup> <\/span>https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=lampedusa+underwater+temple&src=IE11TR&pc=HPDTDFJS&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dlampedusa%2bunderwater%2btemple%26form%3dIE11TR%26src%3dIE11TR%26pc%3dHPDTDFJS&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=CED11A1C5B01D9BDDA2FCED11A1C5B01D9BDDA2F&FORM=WRVORC<\/a><\/span> (link broken)
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(e)<\/span><\/sup> About | Atletenu (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/span><\/sup> (99+) Lampedusa: prehistoric village of Tabaccara coast | Diego Ratti – Academia.edu \u00a0(link broken) See: ARCHIVIO STORICO LAMPEDUSA: VILLAGGIO PREISTORICO DELLA TABACCARA<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lampedusa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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