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  • Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old Mont’e Prama stone giants [Sardinia]

    05/16/2022 5:10:13 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 16 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | May 12, 2022 | unattributed
    The necropolis is situated on the slopes of Mont’e Prama, a hill divided into the parallelepiped-shaped complex and the serpentine-shaped complex, towered by a nuraghe fortification.Previous excavations have found stone sculptures created by the Nuragic civilisation, a culture on Sardinia that emerged during the Bronze Age until the Roman period. The Nuragic are named for the large nuraghe tower-fortress constructions built across all parts of the island.The civilisation is also attributed with the construction of the Giants’ Graves, a collection of over 800 giant megalithic gallery graves either in the so-called “slab type” or “block type” format.In the latest excavations,...