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Article: Sardinia's stony mysteries; Island's prehistoric towers, wells give glimpse of its heart to trekkers willing to explore interior
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2005
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It began over a rushing river, on a makeshift bridge of planks,
logs and chicken wire. From there it was a scramble up loose rocks,
the trail itself barely discernible as I climbed first one and then
another steep mountainside.
Then the path, such as it was, ended in a cave mouth set at the
very top of a rugged peak.
I was standing at what had been, more than 2,000 years ago,
someone's front door.
When the nearly 1,700-foot summit of Mount Tiscali collapsed into
a basketball-arena-sized sinkhole called a dolina, someone moved in.
Archaeologists still aren't sure who the inhabitants were, or exactly
when they arrived. Artifacts found in the valleys below Tiscali
suggest people were living in ...