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First public square or "agor?" in Europe found in Sardinia, in the Nuragic settlment of Sant'Imbenia, it's older than that of Athens: http://lanuovasardegna.gelocal.it/sassari/cronaca/2014/07/21/news/a-sant-imbenia-si-riscrive-la-storia-1.9635373...

I think those look like early Nuragic constructions, have they been dated yet?, they look like the proto Nuraghi (2000-1700 bc), this is an example: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/a558/a312/gallery/Central_Europe/Italy/Sardinia/talei-protonuraghe3.JPG And this is a single tower Nuraghe (1500 bc)...

Yes, I think so, recent discoveries proved that the Nuragics traded far and wide, their pottery has been found as far as Cyprus, Atlantic Spain, Continental italy, Tyrins, Crete and different other locations: A recent study (2013) of 71 ancientSwedish bronze objects dated to Nordic Bronze Age...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_pit_of_Garlo An interesting monument, the sacred pit of Garlo, it's been associated by many archeologists with the hundreds of Nuragic water well temples found in Sardinia.

A bronze mask found in Sardinia belonging to the Nuragic civilization compared to a bronze mask found in the near east and classified as a sea peoples' mask...

Reminds me of Sicilian cuisine.

Italy, the south especially has tons of ancient sites, Sicily is full of well preserved ancient greek monuments itself and Sardinia has thousands of very ancient sites, it's highly underrated.

Phoenicia didn't really exist, there was a so called common phoenician culture in the mediterranean and there were many different city states.

From what I know yes, they shared many characteristics (buildings, weapons, etc...). The Nuragics are also related to the Talaiot people in the Balearic islands for many reasons: The Talaiot people had the same type of pottery as the Nuragics They has really similar types of buildings One of...

Yes I think it's a pre-IndoEuropean language, but the documents are really hard to translate, the few that I know of like Teti inscribed terracotta ship and Nuraxinieddu inscribed askos contain mainly protosinaitic characters, protocananean characters and some unique Nuragic characters.

yeah Vikings did not wear horned helmets in battle, the horned helmets that were found and were believed to be viking helmets were actually made during the Nordic bronze age so of course those did not belong to the medieval vikings, and it appears that those contained holes to hold feathers too.

What do you mean by IE? During the bronze age and early iron age depictions of bronze helmets are found mostly in Sardinia (and Corsica too), there are some other scarce depictions found in mediterranean area, like the two bronze figures in Cyprus, one mycenean jar and something in Syria, but...

I don't think so for many reasons: 1)The Sherden first appered in 1350 BC and Sardis didn't exist back then, and even if a small urban core existed, the town was known with a different name before. 2)Sardis is 150 km away from the sea, while Sherden are described by the Egyptians to be sailors...

My hypothesis is that it was a coalition formed by many different European and western Anatolian ethnicities, The Akawasa and Deynen probably came From Mycenan Greece, the Lukka according to most archeologists are to be identidied with the Lycians, the Sherden obviously are the Nuragic...

The Nuragic civilization developed in Sardinia from 1800 to 500 BC. It's the oldest civilization of the western mediterranean area. The Nuragics built more than 7000 Nuraghi, towers and fortresses that were all built between 1800 and 1100 BC. Some Nuraghi could be extremely big and made of...