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The whole archive.
From the neolithic to this week's news, grouped by subject. The list by date is at the bottom.
Nuraghi and villages
The towers, the fortresses and the people who lived around them.
12 min
Nuraghe Barru: The Sealed Well, the Bronze Sword, and Iron Age Rituals
10 min
Nuraghe Losa: The Perfect Architecture of the Basalt Giant
10 min
Nuraghe Arrubiu: The Red Giant with Five Towers
8 min
Su Nuraxi di Barumini: The Bronze Age Fortress Saved by the Earth
11 min
The Nuraghi of Sardinia: Bronze Age Engineering and Megalithic Castles
Sanctuaries and sacred wells
Water, altars and the places ancient Sardinians went to pray.
Tombs and statues
Where the dead were laid, and the stone figures left to watch over them.
The island in the Mediterranean
Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans: who came by sea, and what they built.
Materials and trades
Copper, silver, trade routes: what people made a living from.
Other
Whatever doesn't fit a group yet.
13 min
Gallura, the Sardinian Kingdom That Kept Its Capital on the Sea
10 min
Venafiorita: the dirt strip the Costa Smeralda took off from
11 min
Torres: From Roman Port to Sassari and the Fall of the Northern Judicate
14 min
Cagliari: The Richest Judicate, and the First to Fall
13 min
Sardinia Records 0.85 Children Per Woman: the Lowest Figure in Italy
15 min
How a False Alignment Is Born: Archaeoastronomy Put to the Test in Sardinia
12 min
Michela Murgia: The Voice of Sinis Who Redefined Italian Literature
11 min
Montiferru After the 2021 Megafire: The Real Story of Ecological Rebirth
9 min
Sardinian is not a dialect: history and secrets of an ancient Romance language
3 min
Pranu Muttedu: Sardinia's Stonehenge and the Mystery of the Standing Stones
16 min
Daily Life at Su Nuraxi: Huts, Hearths, and Stone Totems
10 min
The Vandals in Sardinia: The (Almost) Forgotten Century
10 min
The Battle of Cornus: Hampsicora and the Last Stand of Sardo-Punic Sardinia
7 min
238 BC: How Rome Extorted Sardinia from Carthage Without a Fight
By date
2026
- Gallura, the Sardinian Kingdom That Kept Its Capital on the Sea
- Venafiorita: the dirt strip the Costa Smeralda took off from
- Torres: From Roman Port to Sassari and the Fall of the Northern Judicate
- Nuraghe Barru: The Sealed Well, the Bronze Sword, and Iron Age Rituals
- Cagliari: The Richest Judicate, and the First to Fall
- Sardinia Records 0.85 Children Per Woman: the Lowest Figure in Italy
- How a False Alignment Is Born: Archaeoastronomy Put to the Test in Sardinia
- Michela Murgia: The Voice of Sinis Who Redefined Italian Literature
- Montiferru After the 2021 Megafire: The Real Story of Ecological Rebirth
- How many people were in a Giant's Tomb: beyond the myths
- The Furtei Gold Mine: The Illusion of a Sardinian Klondike
- Argentiera: The Ghost Town Born of Silver and Reborn Through Art
- Montevecchio: the mining town that stayed open for 143 years
- Sardinian is not a dialect: history and secrets of an ancient Romance language
- Pranu Muttedu: Sardinia's Stonehenge and the Mystery of the Standing Stones
- Daily Life at Su Nuraxi: Huts, Hearths, and Stone Totems
- The Vandals in Sardinia: The (Almost) Forgotten Century
- The Battle of Cornus: Hampsicora and the Last Stand of Sardo-Punic Sardinia
- 238 BC: How Rome Extorted Sardinia from Carthage Without a Fight
- Nuraghe Losa: The Perfect Architecture of the Basalt Giant
- Nuraghe Arrubiu: The Red Giant with Five Towers
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini: The Bronze Age Fortress Saved by the Earth
- The Prehistoric Mines of Sardinia: Copper, Silver, and Mediterranean Trade
- Domus de Janas: the Fairy Houses and the Dawn of Sardinia
- Why the Phoenicians Chose Sardinia: The First Mediterranean Globalization
- Tharros: The Sunken City Where Four Civilizations Rest
- The Altar of Monte d'Accoddi: The Only Ziggurat in the Mediterranean
- The Nuragic Sacred Wells and the Geometric Masterpiece of Santa Cristina
- The Nuraghi of Sardinia: Bronze Age Engineering and Megalithic Castles
- The Giants of Mont'e Prama: Sardinia's Stone Army