Museo Archeologico Villa Sulcis Carbonia - Si Mu C

The Museum Villa Sulcis, expanded and renovated (2008), describes the Archaeological Landscape of the territory from the Neolithic to the late Roman period. In a circular path and in a very didactic imprint layout it begins with the Territory Hall and themes of prehistory and early history: the birth of agriculture and villages, the worship and the city of the dead in the Neolithic period (6000-3400 BC ca.); contact with European cultures, the first metals in the Eneolithic period (3400-2200 BC approx); tells worship in caves, daily life of nuragiche communities, the exploitation of mines in the Bronze Age (2200-900 BC) and finally changes the Iron Age with the new settlement patterns, and the presence Phoenicians (900-550 BC) Through the views of the ancient Via Sulcitana it reaches the second room, dedicated to the Phoenician Sulcis, illustrated by Sulky- Sant'Antioco materials, the dominant center, and the seaside resort of Bithiah; entering even more specifically you reach the Monte Sirai Room (Room 3): the life of the Phoenician and Punic center (750 -100 BC) is described through the broad themes of the cult and funerary rituals and reconstructions of life daily (a kitchen, several pit burials and room etc.) Then along the back ramps can be found in the landscape age Phoenician and Punic and Roman. The right wall of the hall 1, finally, describes the territory in Roman times (238 BC - ca. 500 AD, with milestones of Via Sulcitana and necropolis of Carbonia), including submerged, with the ancient landing and the wrecks of the coast sulcitana .

Director: Carla Perra Administrative manager: Nicola Todd Managing Body: Soc. Coop. Mediterranean, President M. Teresa Diana