Nurgaric ruins, Sardinia

[Old Crank]

As we drove around Sardinia we familiarized ourselves with the type of ruin that was endemic to the civilization here. Roughly from 1900-720 BC. There are about 7,000 of these structures identified from an estimate of 10,000. From 1 -4 rooms, some with stairs/ramps to get to an overlook. Massive stone and arches are early corbled. These are from 3 different Nurgare.











A break in the clouds

[Bundbuster]

1. Tricky photography, that.

With that very contrasted lighting and all those different, winding angles, good job.

[Old Crank]

4. Thanks

Most of the work for exposure was done by the camera software. I have some others where I balanced teh lighting with the flash. Non in this group.

[erronis]

2. Thanks for this bit of history and great photos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuragic_civilization

The Nuragic civilization,[1][2] also known as the Nuragic culture, was a civilization or culture on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy, which lasted from the 18th century BC [3] (Middle Bronze Age) (or from the 23rd century BC [4][5]) up to the Roman colonization in 238 BC.[6][7][8] Others date the culture as lasting at least until the 2nd century AD[9] and in some areas, namely the Barbagia, to the 6th century AD[10][11] or possibly even to the 11th century AD.[5][12]

The adjective "Nuragic" is neither an autonym nor an ethnonym. It derives from the island's most characteristic monument, the nuraghe, a tower-fortress type of construction the ancient Sardinians built in large numbers starting from about 1800 BC.[13] Today more than 7,000 nuraghes[a] dot the Sardinian landscape.

No written records of this civilization have been discovered,[16] apart from a few possible short epigraphic documents belonging to the last stages of the Nuragic civilization.[17] The only written information there comes from classical literature of the Greeks and Romans, and may be considered more mythical than historical.[18]

[Old Crank]

5. I hadn't heard of them before

I find it amazing that some of these structures are 3,000 years old and basically piles of rocks.

[3auld6phart]

3. Interesting

My DNA has Saedinia.alongside with heavy Irish and North European.

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[Old Crank]

6. My DNA is pure British Islands

A mongrel lot if there ever was one.

[WhiteTara]

7. that looks magical

I'm glad you got to go in person.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. These are just wonderful, my dear Old Crank!

Thank you for these amazing photos that allow us to see the structures. Fascinating stuff!