Sardinia: Mysteries of the Bronze Age
The Ancients
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Sardinia and the Nuragiic Culture
In Nuragiic Sardinia the culture continues in a way undisturbed between 1800 BC down to the 2nd century BC. Throughout the time you have of course all these influences Phoenician, Punic, Romans coming into the island but at the end of that long cultural phase is really the 2 second century BC. The types of weapons that we display here are characteristic of the three islands in the long period of the Bronze Age and up to the classical period. In Sardinia they really favored so-called we have daggers and swords and blades and a very characteristic type is the so-called gamma shaped because it looks like a Greek gamma type of small size swords. You also have
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