Giovanni Lilliu (13 March 1914 in Barumini, Italy – 19 February 2012 in Cagliari), was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia, Italy,^[1] the site was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.