Study finds Christopher Columbus’s DNA ‘compatible’ with Sephardic Jewish origins
A new documentary explores 20 years of research into the navigator’s roots, suggesting his birthplace is in the ‘western Mediterranean’
Research confirms authenticity of Christopher Columbus’ remains in Spain
A new study of bones that were transferred to the Spanish city of Seville from Havana in 1899 confirms with ‘absolute reliability’ that they belong to the explorer
Hernán Cortés’ remains languish in a safe in Spain amid political standoff over conquistador’s legacy
Former Extremadura regional premier Guillermo Fernández Vara announced a year ago that the relics, kept privately for decades, would be put on public display, but the current conservative administration has them stored in an archive
Crossbow bolts and coins: The archaeological trail of the Coronado expedition that discovered the Grand Canyon
The conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Guzmán crossed Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas between 1540 and 1542 and left behind pieces that have been analyzed in a new study
This is how a 150-ton stone was moved thousands of years ago to complete the Dolmen of Menga
A study reveals the advanced mathematical, astronomical and geological knowledge that was used to build one of humanity’s first stone buildings, located in southern Spain
Valdecañas: The drought-hit reservoir that revealed a giant archaeological treasure in Spain
Authorities had to race to prevent the plundering of priceless heritage ranging from Roman ruins to medieval board games and a megalithic dolmen
Five megathrust earthquakes destroyed the city-state of Teotihuacán
A Spanish-Mexican study reveals the reasons that led the population of this impressive Mayan civilization city to flee to safer places in the year 650
What exactly do we know about the Hand of Irulegi?
Experts doubt whether it is a symbol of good fortune or of war. They believe it could include the name of a divinity and confirm that it was written in ‘Basque script’
The 3,000-year-old Treasure of Villena contains two pieces made with iron from ‘beyond planet Earth’
Made up of 59 objects found in 1965, the hoard has been dated to the Bronze Age and is the only one on the Iberian Peninsula made with material from a meteorite
How an act of revenge halted construction of a Roman fort on a small Spanish island
Archaeologists took 44 years to discover who began to build an expensive ‘castellum’ in Formentera, the least strategic of the Balearic Islands, and why
The threatening message found on a Roman-era projectile
A piece of lead with the word ‘Caesar’ reveals that the feared Iberian slingers had allied with the Roman dictator to finish off his enemy
The Prado Museum takes up the challenge of painting like Rubens
The esteemed Spanish gallery commissioned an artist to replicate a work by the baroque genius using the “Venetian technique,” which the Flemish painter developed to fulfill his many commissions on time
George Santayana, the philosopher who authored the aphorism: ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’
A new anthology collects the works of the Madrid-born scholar, who grew up in the U.S. and taught at Harvard for two decades
On the trail of the only medieval crusade in the Iberian Peninsula
A new documentary picks up the archaeological trail of the largest military confrontation in Medieval Spain
The place where the Visigoth king Rodrigo was defeated by the Muslims has been located
An interdisciplinary study has located the battlefield that changed the history of the Iberian Peninsula and the stream where the monarch died, stuck in the mud
The Celtiberian cavalry chiefs gave each other horse brooches to seal pacts
A study reveals that these pre-Romans manufactured the symbolic offerings using the same mold
The Roman well-cleaner who lost a sandal 2,000 years ago in Spain
The footwear, the only example from Hispania discovered with decorative elements, is in an excellent state of preservation and has been refrigerated until it can be fully restored
Forty years after a Roman villa was found in Spain, its owner remains unknown
Experts believe that the palatial complex was a significant center of power that received the Mediterranean’s best materials and ceramics
The largest burial ground of primitive elephants in Spain unearthed in Madrid
Eight pachyderms that lived 14 million years ago died at the same time due to an extended drought
War elephants: How Carthage used a ‘psychological’ weapon the Romans failed to master
Both Hannibal and Julius Caesar used pachyderms in their campaigns in Hispania, but the Carthaginian general had far more expertise in their deployment than the legions
A large 4,000-year-old necropolis in southern Spain reveals the true purpose of stelae
Researchers have located a ‘sensational stone slab showing a diadem’ that reverses theories about these types of archeological monuments
A 2,000-year-old battle elephant bone was found in Spain. Experts are investigating whether the animal fought for Hannibal or Julius Caesar
Archaeologists also located 17 catapult ‘bullets’ and other weapons, as well as brooches, coins, and millstones from different periods
The oldest Roman forum in Hispania has been found in Zaragoza
Experts believe that the square, ‘of monumental dimensions,’ was part of an unknown city razed to the ground in 70 B.C. during the Sertorian civil war
Notches in the teeth of ‘seamstresses’ show how work was divided by sex 5,000 years ago
A study by the universities of Valladolid, Murcia, and Burgos reveals ‘the earliest evidence of craft specialization in the Iberian Peninsula’
A tomb for two kings and an ossuary for the bones of 3,000 people
The Church of St. Mary at Wamba, in the province of Valladolid, Spain, has a spectacular cemetery with thousands of human remains dating from between the 9th and 17th centuries
The mystery of the Amazigh people in Gran Canaria, Spain
An exhibition at the country’s National Archeological Museum reveals the secrets of the Berber settlement on the island, while exploring the conquest of these pre-Hispanic peoples by the Crown of Castile in the 15th century
The first female leader in the history of the Iberian Peninsula
Archeologists in Spain discover an ornate tomb belonged to a 5,000-year-old woman ‘so prominent that no man ever reached her level,’ prompting reconsideration of the role of gender in the early political life of the peninsula