Tomb of the giants Photo: giants ' Tomb

Tomb of the giants – inhabitants of Sardinia called graves created in the mid-2nd to mid 1st Millennium BC and belonging to the Nuragic period in the history of the island. Total number of such graves in Sardinia found about 300 pieces.

Giants ' tombs consist of a burial chamber and lying on her round – the artificial structures of conical shape, made of stones. Sometimes there is also an entrance in the shape of a Cup, and then the whole structure has strong similarities with the archaeological monument Court Cairn in Ireland.

Archeologists are two types of tombs of the giants – tiled and beamed. In the first rough stone slabs, buried one end in the ground in the vicinity. In the largest Central stele height up to 4 meters breached the entrance. Inside the tomb have a clear rectangular layout. The dimensions of the burial chambers range from 5 to 15 meters in length and 1 to 2 meters in height. After the construction of the tomb covered it over the hill in the form of an inverted ship, and near the entrance was the obelisk, which fulfilled the role of the God-ancestor a Keeper of the peace of the deceased. Similar tombs tile type can be seen in the towns Osono, Bartali, Lolly and Pascarella. And in the vicinity of the cities Dorgali, Garonna, Santa Biazo and Kaddu Vecchio are more sophisticated tiled tombs in Central stele processed and rounded on top, and also has the image on the front surface.

Another type of tombs of the giants and beam – found in areas of Bodystyle, the ruins of former shining II, Selenium II, ILO Moore and Kuat. They differ from the previous one, built of hewn blocks of rectangular shape.

It's also worth noting that the shape and nature of the structure of the Sardinian tombs of the giants is very similar to the megalithic temples of Malta – explanation of this fact is yet to be found.

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