Vicente G. Olaya

Animal bones found in a Barcelona necropolis reveal how poorer Romans used cheap meats to reduce the costs of funeral rituals

The bas-relief was carved on the wall of a building excavated in southern Spain

Archaeologists describe the finding as ‘unique.’ It includes the discovery of 526 menhirs, or standing stones, from between the sixth and third millennia BC

After it emerged four thousand years ago, El Agar became the first class-based civilization in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the first society in the world to have a parliament. But by 1550 BC, it had vanished

A team of European archeologists say a gigantic tidal wave traveled more than 25 miles inland, destroying the Roman port city of Hispalis (Seville)

A monument erected early in honor of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo,  the first European explorer to set foot in San Diego Bay in 1542, is causing a diplomatic headache

Dated between the 1st and 2nd centuries, the urban complex had ‘buildings of enormous proportions’ and public services including baths, water supply, streets and sewers

The search for the bodies of two young women shot in 1936 has also turned up a Visigothic tomb and a collection of coins from the 11th century

John Dickie, author of ‘The Craft: How the Freemasons made the Modern World,’ explains how the secret society has persisted through the ages

The Hispanic Council analyzed the communications of 541 lawmakers in the country and found that 102 communicate officially with their constituents in the language

The hill which now hosts the fortress of Guardamar del Segura was previously the site of a sanctuary consecrated to a divine power that protected sailors

Expert Jesús Losada has written a book about the pieces that have racked up the highest prices at auction, including one unique item that was sold for €944,000

City councils, environmentalists, architects, museums and locals are up in arms against plans for a business involving 4,200 animals, which they say will be an eyesore from Gormaz castle in Soria

The Elda Museum in Alicante is exhibiting a newly restored chandelier-style lantern from the 1st century A.D., which features 32 points of light

Photographic techniques were used on the Lady of Baza, a leading example of Iberian art, to uncover the pigments used by the original artist in the 4th century BC

A historian reconstructs how Santa María de Óvila was dismantled, shipped to the US to be incorporated into the newspaper baron’s California mansion, but finally forgotten in a San Francisco pier

The city of Huelva is planning to erect 15-story buildings at the base of a hill that has yielded dozens of precious artifacts from an ancient civilization that traded as far as the Middle East

It is now 30 years since authorities prioritized Seville Expo infrastructure over national heritage and backed the destruction of a vast complex built by Emperor Maximian Herculius in Córdoba

Granada University and several international laboratories will analyze the explorer’s remains to determine if he was from Italy, Portugal or a region of Spain

Archeologists have pieced together part of the history of finds made around the walls of a town that was a frontier fortress during the medieval wars between Muslims and Christians

The rise in the Hispanic population in America is seeing an increase in the prevalence of family names such as Rodríguez, Martínez, López and González, which are among the 15 most frequently found in the country

Five decades have passed since a huge Talaiotic archeological find was swept aside to make way for an airport runway on the Balearic Island of Mallorca

Police in Córdoba seized the priceless jewelry collection after being alerted to its existence by a local archaeologist who spotted photos of the pieces online

An environmental study linked to a project to dredge an estuary in A Coruña suggests the presence of several English ships sunk in 1589 in the failed attempt to invade the Galician city

Hugh Borthwick, the Scot who owned the outcrop of Fraile in the 1910s, ignored the Roman and Islamic vestiges at his feet: he was too busy keeping his eye on passing German warships

Archeologists digging in a village that was once a center of power find corpses in an unusual location