Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)
Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 191
ch. 168 PREHISTORIC PEOPLES. Many conjectures have been made as to the use ofthese towers. Were they temples in which to worship,or trophies of victory ? Their number is against eitherof these hypotheses. Were they then habitations oitowers of observation % Not the former certainly, forno one could… … F- 53-—Nurhag at Santa Barbara (Sardinia). pare them to nothing but the Towers of Silence, onwhich the Parsees expose their dead to the birds ofheaven, which are ever ready rapidly to acquit them-selves of their melancholy functions. Tlie origin of tlie nurliags is as uncertain as theiruse.…
Archaeology
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