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While bicycle touring Sardinia we came across this thirty-five hundred-year-old nuraghic ruin known as the Nuraghe Palace of Santu Antine. At forty feet tall it is the largest of the more than seven thousand beehive-shaped fortresses on Sardinia (for scale, notice Sharon in the yellow windbreaker). I marvelled that nothing but rock, gravity, and sheer brute force had been used in its centuries old construction. Even more amazing was that the whole complex hadn't collapsed like a weighty house of cards. Circular tunnels (so low they forced me to stoop), ran the structure's perimeter. At various points, intersecting hallways led into the main part of the nuraghe. We followed one, and found there were three levels of dome-shaped rooms. Continuing through dim passageways, winding this way and that, we reached the top of the nuraghe. From our vantage point we surveyed the immense rocks making up the palace. How had they managed to lift such giant boulders into place? And they all fitted together like some mammoth three-dimensional puzzle. I frowned. Some of the lower boulders had cracked from the tremendous weight of the upper levels. Going back inside was a trifle disconcerting. "One little pebble" kept repeating in my head.

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