The Nuragic Civilisation of Bronze Age Sardinia

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As a Sardinian archaeologist, I'm amazed by the level of detail you went through in this video. Just to let your subscribers know, the information you reported was correct and very precise. I have to say thank you for spreading the knowledge of our ancient culture. Just one more thing. In the last years, it's more and more spread the idea that the "nuragic" bronzes are not the reflection of the nuraghi builders, but of the people from the next phase late bronze age/iron age. Also, the funerary practices change, abandoning the old giant's tombs for single burials. Votive swords and "bronzetti" were made when the towers were built no more. The culture it's always "nuragic" but the phases are differentiated. Anyway, this is a matter of discussion between archaeologists. Thanks again for your excellent work.

I spent three weeks solo exploring the northern half of Sardinia in September 2018. I am not superstitious or easily spooked, but many places on the island are truly eerie. I visited a number of Nuragic sights, and was often the only person there. I got caught in a thunderstorm at one of them, and it suddenly felt like I had been transported back in time. Yes, the beaches there are nice, but the history of Sardinia is compelling and unique.

When i was a child we went to Sardinia for Vacation, and i managed to convince my parents to visit multiple ruins of this civilization. I only knew them from a comic where the nuragic ruins were mentioned. that was a really special experience, reading about an ancient civilization and then being able to not only see the ruins, but being there. One of my best memories from childhood.

As a Sardinian (from the mountains👹) myself i'm so glad our traditions and roots are catching progressively more interest and curiosity on the international scene, we truly have some astonishing archeological and cultural proof left of our great past, this is the first time i see a video so detailed in English language, a great work of yours, thanks. I would also suggest for the profanes to give a look to my city's (Nuoro) mask parade, they are all masks connected to the pagan culture that survived in Barbagia until few centuries ago, and are indeed very cool to see 😎.

Very good video, as always. I’m Italian and i’ve spent many summer holidays in Sardinia, it’s an amazing place with stunning beaches. And everywhere you go you can see nuraghis, some are as big as massive medieval castles. When you think of their age it’s amazing that the nuragic civilization is so little know outside Italy.

I was once in the holidays in Sardinia and we visited a few of the Giant Tombs, a Nuraghe with a small village around & high in the mountains the ruins of an old and hidden perhaps Nuraghe...? However they were quite impressive and astonishing and i will never forget the very strange and undefinable, intuitive, physical feeling that i had, when we visited the Giant Tomb of Sa Grutta de' Santu Giuanni / San Cosimo, Moru and Lo Loghli ! On this locations there is something that you can't explain, but you can feel it and the feeling of that remains strongely in your memory.

This topic is a favorite of mine. I've always been so interested in this culture. I spent 8 months in italy but never got a chance to go to Sardinia to look at their tombs. It's on my bucket list.

Wow. Every time I start thinking I have a half-decent grasp of what was going on in the ancient world, I get a nice surprise like this. I'd love to see more like this, only about other somewhat isolated places. It's fascinating, how long-lasting cultures change over time, due to changes in environment or contact with outsiders. Cultures that manages to retain their identity, despite outside groups invading, always amaze me. I've paid too much attention to the larger, more powerful civilizations;, and not enough to the ones that didn't go out and conquer all their neighbors. How many other cultures have I ignored? No idea, but I'm getting more interested lately. I can't think of the name of the islands in the Atlantic that I'm thinking of, but I've been seeing videos about them popping up recently. Until those appeared in my feed, I'd barely remembered those islands existed...and no idea that they'd been inhabited for thousands of years. Humans seem to have gotten to just about any inhabitable land you can name, long enough ago that we barely know anything at all about them. I think it would be interesting to do a sort of survey of all these little places, especially the ones that haven't been studied extensively.

As a Sardinian anthropology, I'm very glad that you brought this studies about the ancient Nuragic Civilisation. Great work.

sardinia is so remarkably beautiful in all its parts. such a gorgeous place to live and strive

Bellissima descrizione, finalmente qualcuno che descrive la nostra antica storia! Per chi non ha mai visto la nostra isola è un buon inizio..👍

Having spent 6 months in Sardinia in the early 90s I've always wondered about these buildings and the people that built them, thanks you for answering so many questions I had, that i had never been able to find answers for.

Thank you for this documentary. I am Sardinian and I would like you make another video on Sardinian culture please 🙂

Still today, Sardinia is one of the culturally most conservative places in Europe. Their language conserved features of Latin pronunciation that are gone in all other modern Romance languages.

It's these types of videos that convince me of how valuable Youtube can be and I am grateful it exists. Hello from Italy.

I'm sardinian and I like a lot your video! You could have mention Mont 'e Prama worriors too, but what you said is so well detailed I am thinking you have sardinian blood too! And thanks also because you showed the Nuraghe of my village, Barumini (in the thumbnail too)

Wow I was always fascinated with the Bronze Age and how little we know about the sea people. Had no idea they were called Sherden.

Absolutely remarkable. So many things describe a sophisticated, long lasting, but forgotten civilization. Sardinians were not mentioned in my History course. Those figurines are so well crafted, the singular edifications and burial traditions mean we should look deeper. Mediterranean has so many histories that are yet to be discovered.

Yesss, another video of an obscure Bronze-Age civilization, I love these!