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Posted: 08 Mar 2016

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Monte d'Accoddi •
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Monte d'Accoddi

Monte d'Accoddi
The islands in the mediterranean sea still hold many unsolved prehistoric enigmas. Monte d'Accoddi near Sassari is one of them.

The small hill was used as a base for an antiaircraft gun in WWII. At that time it came clear, that this was not just a hill in the meadow. Excavations done in the 1950s found the ruins of a ziggurat. A terraced step pyramid, known from Mesopotamia, but not from mediterranean islands.

The oldest parts of the ziggurat are dated to around 4.000 BC. The structure had a base of 36m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5 m. A ramp, flanked by menhires, lead up to a kind of house (temple?) on the highest platform.

It has been partially reconstructed during the 1980s.

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 Martin M. Miles
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I had never heard about, but one evening in Sassari I met a classicist, who was a gifted storyteller. At first I did not believe the story about the only ziggurat in the mediterranean sea...
9 years ago.

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