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Grotta della Vipera, Cagliari (Viper grotto) The existence and understanding of direct statements of the proto-Sardinian (pre-punic and pre-Latin) language or languages [1] being hotly debated, the first written artifact from the island dates back to the Phoenician period with documents such as the Nora Stele or the trilingual inscription (Punic-Latin-Greek) from San Nicolò Gerrei. [2]
Cape Carbonara (Italian: Capo Carbonara, Sardinian: Cabo Crabonaxa) is a promontory on the southeastern tip of Sardinia, Italy, which forms the eastern end of the Gulf of Cagliari. Together with the nearby Cavoli Island and Serpentara Island , it is included in the Italian National Marine Park of Capo Carbonara (Italian: Area Marina Protetta ).
Molentargius, in Sardinian language, means "donkeys handlers" as salt extraction was the richest industry of the Cagliari area for millennia, the salt being transported by donkeys. The park is a wetland extending over an area of about 1600 hectares, surrounded by the urbanized areas of Cagliari and the other towns of the metropolitan area and ...
Location: Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy: Region: Sardinia: Coordinates: Type: Necropolis: History; Founded: 6th century BC: Cultures: Punic, Roman: Site notes; Management: Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage in the Provinces of Cagliari and Oristano (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano)
Atalanta’s winning streak ended at 11 matches after drawing at fourth-placed Lazio 1-1 in Serie A on Saturday. Substitute Marco Brescianini's late equalizer meant the Bergamo squad remained atop ...
Among the bronze statuettes, the "village chief" (today preserved in the Museo archeologico nazionale di Cagliari - National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari) deserves attention. It represents a male figure with his left hand raised in greeting and a long stick with a knob in the right hand. The face has an elongated nose and thick eyebrows.
There is also the possibility that the Nuragic peoples may have been related to the Etruscans and other Tyrsenian peoples and languages. [2] One of the Sea Peoples (the Shardana or Sherden ) may have been either a population hailing from Sardinia (Ugas 2005, 2016) or a group of tribes that migrated to the island in the Late Bronze Age (Sandars ...
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