Vicente G. Olaya

The spectacular rise in the price of gold over the past nine years has triggered a wave of increasingly violent heists at European museums, which are struggling to protect themselves

Located in the municipality of Calasparra, the find has thrown up coins, scales and weights, and the tomb of a young woman who died during childbirth 

The sculpture was carved in the first century AD and probably stood over the tomb of a prominent citizen of Elche, as it was believed that these winged creatures would carry the soul to the afterlife

The ship, covered by eight meters of sediment, is preserved in ‘excellent condition,’ as is its cargo

A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed

A study reconstructs how the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula lived in the Copper Age

The structure consists of three concentric walls up to five meters high and 25 towers. Inside, the tomb of a possible Roman legionary has been discovered

A new documentary explores 20 years of research into the navigator’s roots, suggesting his birthplace is in the ‘western Mediterranean’

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

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

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

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