Giants' Grave S'Ena e Thomes
Tomb / BurialEuropeItalyc. 1,700 BCENuragic (Bonnanaro origins)
One of the best-preserved giants' tombs in Sardinia, built entirely of local granite: a semicircular exedra of knife-edge orthostats fronts an 11 m dolmenic corridor, centred on an arched monolithic stele ~4 m tall and around 7 tons, its borders smoothed and a small carved portal at its base symbolizing passage to the afterlife. Its unusual southern orientation and inconsistently reported dating are discussed in the literature.
Look Closer — this site carries open questions: stones heavier than the period's tools could lift; stone harder than steel.
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