Vicente G. Olaya

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

A new documentary picks up the archaeological trail of the largest military confrontation in Medieval Spain

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

A study reveals that these pre-Romans manufactured the symbolic offerings using the same mold

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

Experts believe that the palatial complex was a significant center of power that received the Mediterranean’s best materials and ceramics

Eight pachyderms that lived 14 million years ago died at the same time due to an extended drought

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

Researchers have located a ‘sensational stone slab showing a diadem’ that reverses theories about these types of archeological monuments

Archaeologists also located 17 catapult ‘bullets’ and other weapons, as well as brooches, coins, and millstones from different periods

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

A study by the universities of Valladolid, Murcia, and Burgos reveals ‘the earliest evidence of craft specialization in the Iberian Peninsula’

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

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

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

A report argues that the site outside the walls did not house the Visigoth capital but rather recreational estates and Roman buildings

Experts complain that Spielberg’s saga shows them as ‘treasure hunters’ and that the main character destroys sites to get hold of a magical object

The Spanish Civil Guard police recovered a marble bust of a female ‘of similar artistic quality to the ones exhibited in the Louvre’ and arrested a couple accused of crimes against historical heritage

More than 150 heraldic coats of arms tell the unhappy story of the woman who Pope Innocent III forced to separate from King Alfonso IX of León when they already had five children together

For the first time, Spanish scholars at the University of Córdoba have managed to analyze a perfume from Ancient Rome, determining its fragrance and chemical composition

The 11th-century ‘Will of Count Gundesindo’ disappeared from a monastery and showed up over a century later in Saint Petersburg

The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 buried homes and synagogues standing for more than a thousand years in the Iberian Peninsula

Republican Soviet fighters shot down a Condor Legion Junkers during the Battle of Brunete but the location of the wreckage remained a mystery for 85 years

Widespread looting of archaeological sites has prevented experts from determining if a unique Vacceai dagger belonged to an Iberian warrior who brought it home from the battlefield in the third century BC

A University of Cambridge study has identified a wooden object found at the Vindolanda fort in northern England as a dildo dating from the era of Emperor Antoninus Pius

Mundane clothing fasteners excavated from Spanish battlefields provide glimpses into the country’s many clashes with Portugal, England and France