On Friday 7 October at 3 pm , on the occasion of the Genoa-Cagliari football match that will be played at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium at 8.30 pm, the photographic exhibition on the Giants of Mont'e Prama will be presented to the public in the Ballroom of the Royal Palace of Genoa , open until October 27, 2022.

The exhibition, curated by the Mont'e Prama Foundation and by Fasi , the Federation of Sardinian Associations in Italy, consists of five panels in Italian and English that tell the story of the most important archaeological discovery of the last two hundred years in the western Mediterranean.

In the presence of the director of Palazzo Reale, Alessandra Guerrini, the president of the Mont'e Prama Foundation, Anthony Muroni, the president of Cagliari Calcio, Tommaso Giulini, as well as Bastianino Mossa, national president of the Fasi and the archaeologist Ilaria Orri of the Cooperative will speak. Sinis Peninsula, which manages the Giovanni Marongiu civic museum.

The initiative is part of a communication project by the Mont'e Prama Foundation and Cagliari Calcio , aimed at promoting the archaeological heritage of Sinis on the Italian and international market during the matches played during the away matches of the rossoblùs in the Serie B championship. .

The Giants of Mont'e Prama is the only case of monumental statuary sculpted in the round three thousand years ago, found by chance by some farmers in 1974, in the countryside of Cabras, a town located on the west coast of Sardinia. The stones lay under the ground in the hill called Mont'e Prama - translated, Monte della Palma - because of the vegetation that then grew luxuriantly there.

Those large and well-defined boulders did not leave indifferent the farmers who worked the fields, much less the Superintendency which, in 1975, started a first excavation campaign in those places, making more than five thousand fragments emerge from the earth which united together gave life to twenty-eight male statues, depicting boxers, archers and warriors, now kept together with the latest findings in the Cabras museum and partly at the MAN in Cagliari.