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Philadelphia History Museum: Center City: Local history: History museum for the City of Philadelphia (currently closed, future unknown) [4] Philadelphia Museum of Art: Lower North Philadelphia: Art: European, Asian and American fine art, furniture and decorative arts, arms & armor, period rooms Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art: Lower North ...
Su Nuraxi is a Nuragic archaeological site in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. Su Nuraxi simply means "The Nuraghe" in Campidanese , the southern variant of the Sardinian language . Su Nuraxi is a settlement consisting of a seventeenth century BC nuraghe , a bastion of four corner towers plus a central one, and a village inhabited from the thirteenth ...
The recorded history of Sardinia begins with its contacts with the various people who sought to dominate western Mediterranean trade in classical antiquity: Phoenicians, Punics and Romans. Initially under the political and economic alliance with the Phoenician cities, it was partly conquered by Carthage in the late 6th century BC and then ...
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The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
The necropolis location is listed as "M. Prama" on the cadastral map of the municipality of Cabras, and on the 1:25000 maps of the Istituto Geografico Militare, sheet 216 N.E. [38] The letter "M." in the location name has been given several interpretations, such as Mont'e, Monti, Monte, and Montigru, all still in use in Sardinian language.
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum facility, which was modernized and rebranded as the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at St. Joseph’s University [46] opened in 2023. [47] Its collection includes one of the largest collections of Latin American Colonial art in the region, as well as refurbished plaster casts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [48]