The nuraghes and the Pleiades

Gabriella Bernardi
2 min readApr 13, 2023

An extraordinary hypothesis on the layout of a group of Bronze Age monuments in Sardinia.

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Torralba, Sardinia, Italy.

Close to a group of nuraghes near the largest one, Santu Antine, an archeologist, Augusto Mulas, looks at the sky and has an idea: may these monuments represent the famous open star cluster M45, better known as the Pleiades?

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Gabriella Bernardi

Gabriella Bernardi is a science journalist and author based in Turin, Italy. Here her science blog https://astrocometal.blogspot.com/