Looking at the ground plan, it is hard not to be reminded of the military architecturethat developed in Europe a good 2,000 years later. An aura of mystery hangs over thenuraghe.
nuraghe in American English
(nuːˈrɑːɡei)
nounWord forms: plural-ghi (-ɡi) or -ghes
any of the large, tower-shaped, prehistoric stone structures found in Sardinia and dating from the second millennium b.c. to the Roman conquest
Derived forms
nuraghic
adjective
Word origin
[1820–30; ‹ Sardinian; of obscure orig. (presumably pre-L)]