Historians recognize the nebulous “Sea People” as the theorized destroyers of the Bronze Age, a borderless congregation of oceangoing folk who banded sails to wreak havoc across the Eastern Mediterranean, from the Levant to Egypt and deep into the fertile crescent. It has long been speculated that the ancient Nuragic Civilization was not only among, but one of the spearheads of, this vaguely named nautical pestilence. Inhabitants of Sardinia, the Nuragic were as mysterious as they were feared some 3,300 years ago.
This lost civilization stays close in mind when slicing through Sardinia, especially when passing the nuraghe, the crumbling fortress/towers of the Nuragic. These spectacular ruins, still somehow shockingly intact as they rise into the horizon,
