{"id":3666,"date":"2010-06-10T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T08:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/melis-leonardo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:34:41","slug":"melis-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/melis-leonardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Melis, Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leonardo<\/strong> <strong>M<\/strong><strong>elis <\/strong><strong>(1949- )<\/strong> was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sardinia-amended\/\">Sardinia<\/a>. He has written<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>478<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> extensively <em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/leonardo-melis.500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23241\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/leonardo-melis.500-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"leonardo-melis.500\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/leonardo-melis.500-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/leonardo-melis.500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/em>on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/shardana\/\">Shardana<\/a>, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples<\/a>, who are usually accepted as coming from Sardinia. It is to be hoped that Melis\u2019 book will be published in English before long. Melis also links the Shardana with the lost tribe of Dan and also the Tuatha DeDanaan who invaded <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ireland\/\">Ireland<\/a> in the dim and distant past. Melis continues to have\u00a0his books supported by a website<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> with an English translation.<\/p>\n<p>Melis identifies the mythological <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tirrenide-n\/\">Tirrenide<\/a> with the anciently combined Corsica and Sardinia. He is also highly critical of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sergio-frau\/\">Sergio Frau&#8217;s <\/a>Atlantis in Sardinia theory<sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201012160456\/http:\/\/www.shardana.org\/English.htm\">English (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210616221251\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2511\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210616221251\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2511\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo Melis (1949- ) was born in Sardinia. He has written[478] extensively on the Shardana, one of the Sea Peoples, who are usually accepted as coming from Sardinia. It is to be hoped that Melis\u2019 book will be published in English before long. Melis also links the Shardana with the lost tribe of Dan and [&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":[1756,294,1411,100,60,360,363,1869,1410],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corsica","tag-ireland","tag-leonardo-melis","tag-sardinia","tag-sea-peoples","tag-sergio-frau","tag-shardana","tag-tirrenide","tag-tuatha-de-danaan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64942,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/64942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}