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
Authorities had to race to prevent the plundering of priceless heritage ranging from Roman ruins to medieval board games and a megalithic dolmen
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
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’
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
Archaeologists took 44 years to discover who began to build an expensive ‘castellum’ in Formentera, the least strategic of the Balearic Islands, and why
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 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
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