Nuragic - Island Nation of Sardinia
The Mediterranean was the heart of Bronze Age Europe and North Africa, which is why most of its great civilizations developed near its coastlines. And while the eastern part of the sea is quite well known, thanks to the Egyptians, Mycenaeans (Greeks) and Hittites, the western shores were far from empty. Indeed, they had quite a number of people who settled in and d eveloped their own nations, even if they were not as great and mighty as their eastern counterparts. One such culture was the Nuragic, great builders in their own right living on the teeny tiny island of Sardinia. The Nuragic people came from the Bell Beaker Culture, which had migrated to the island. Here, isolated from continental Europe , they developed their own distinct ident ity around the year 2000 BCE. The Nuragic history is quite long, as they remained the masters of the island until the arrival of the Phoenicians around the year 900 BCE. Despite early amicable relationships, a certain powerful Phoenician ...