In front of the castle of Pedres, near the town of Olbia, an aura of mystery surrounds a nuraghic burial site. In the Giganti de su mont'e s'Abe (or s'Ape) tomb, the deceased were buried together, unlike the thousands of prehistoric burials of this type. In the burial room, the sacred rites associated with the deceased were performed, but here, unlike other places, the burial documents that accompanied the deceased until his union with the deity were not found in the sacred well.

The construction of the building took place in two phases. In the first part, which dates back to the Bonnanaro culture period, the Allée Couverte tomb was built - a kind of elongated dolmen - which was subsequently built around 1600 BC. BC was converted into a giant tomb with an exedra and stele, some of which you can admire traces. The building, originally built in the shape of the head of a bull, a life-giving deity, was bordered by a semicircle at the front.

In the center of the exedra was a four-meter-high granite stele and at the base a small opening that served as the entrance to the tomb. Inside, the tomb consisted of a ten-meter-long chamber, while the entire structure, which is still clearly visible, is one of the largest in all of Sardinia, measuring 28 meters long and six meters wide.

Source: sardegnaturismo.it/it/esplora/su-monte-sabe

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