The Giants or Colossi of Mount Prama - Sardinia
The Giants or Colossi of Mount Prama - Sardinia The myth that Sardinia is the land of Giants, comes true, taking human form in huge stone statues dating back three thousand years, found on the hill of Mount Prama , on the Sinis peninsula, in the central-west of Sardinia. It is estimated that in ancient times, the statues were lined up to protect the necropolis along the road at the foot of the Mount Prama hill, alongside huge sacred stones and reproductions of nuragas. The Giants or Colossi of Mount Prama are sculptures that are believed to have been created by the Nuragic civilization, they represent the traces of a culture that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd centuries, no written records of this civilization have been discovered, apart from some small possible epigraphic documents belonging to the last stages of civilization. Researchers have yet to agree on whether the Nuragic culture originated on the island itself or perhaps...