Travel in Sardinia Exhibit Phoenician Archaeological Museum of Cagliari
Craftsmanship in glass Cagliari National Museum Phoenician Find Exhibit Archaeological finds Phoenician Handicraft in glass pasteSardinia National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari Cagliari, Citadel of Museums, Piazza Arsenale, Hours: 9-19 (all day, closed Christmas, New Year and the first of the month of May). Services: toilets, bars, trail for the disabled, space for the blind. The collection: the Museum houses exhibits of the pre-Nuraghic, Nuraghic, Phoenician and Punic, Roman and early. Of the Neolithic period and of Sardinian E-Neolithic are preserved pottery of different style, stone tools, tips and arrow in obsidian daggers, necklaces of bone and shells and several statues representing the mother goddess. The findings of the Nuraghic period present in the museum are: pottery, tools, a collection of bronze weapons and especially many bronzes, small bronze sculptures representatives subject of various kinds. Some models allow you to assume as they arise, originally, the Nuraghi (Old Fortress) and the graves of giants. Historical Notes on SardiniaThe Phoenicians have left ample historical evidence of their existence, not only in the region where you lived (between the chain of Lebanon and the mountains of Gallilea) but also in Sardinia where they founded numerous cities: Nora, Bithia, Sulky, Tharros and others. Regarding other Mediterranean cities can cite at least Carthage, Marseille and Malaga. The peak of their civilization can be placed around 1200-800 BC in the following cities: Bibios, Berito, Sidon and Tyre. The Iron Age (900 BC - 535 BC) has left several findings: boats and small Bronzes, pottery with geometric shapes, Nuraghic statues, importation of products Phoenicians and of the populations allocated around the Tyrrhenian Sea. With the approaching end Iron Age starts the decline of the Nuraghic Civilization, the continuing wars will establishes its end. Document date: 2000-2006 - Sardinia Information Section Archaeology
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