With 'Haou-Nebout', the ancient Egyptians identified a mysterious universe of densely populated islands located in the heart of the Ocean. In an exciting excursus covering ten thousand years of history, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, the authors of this text highlight some of the contradictions into which official historiography has fallen and provoke new questions. Where did the Minoans, the Trojans, the Mycenaeans come from? Where did the Etruscans and all the pre-Roman Italic peoples come from? What about the Philistines, the Phrygians or the Egyptians themselves? Following an intuition confirmed by the acquisitions of linguistics and radiocarbon dating, the authors try to give an answer to these questions, precisely by studying the meaning of the term 'Haou-Nebout'. A revolutionary vision of man's prehistory that finally recognises the sea and its peoples as protagonists in the birth of civilisation.

Widmer Berni has always been a pas-sionate scholar of ancient civilisations, a collector and scholar of classical numismatics and pre-Columbian civilisations.