Abstract :
Since 2008 the Shardana Project (fig. 1) developed by the Centre of Studies J.-Fr. Champollion on Egyptology and Coptic Civilization and settled in Genoa in cooperation with the University of Genoa and the University of the Mediterranean in Taranto, has aimed to all data about the Sherden culture inside and outside Pharaonic Egypt. The project is the result of a joint work among staff members of the three institutions mentioned above. It is based on a systematic study on available data conducted by the present writer from 2002 to 2006.