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Saturday's Fun: A Neolithic Altar, Fish And Wine For Lunch, Then To The Beach

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Jul 20, 2024
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Look at that fathead behind a cracked egg of a boulder, roasting in the Sardinian sun. Giuseppe took James C. and me to an amazing place today, Monte D’Accoddi, It’s a Neolithic altar constructed around 4000 BC, and, given its resemblance to a ziggurat, believed by some scholars to have been constructed by exiles from Mesopotamia. It is far older than …

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