In the seventh century B.C., Tartessos once reached great heights as a rich society full of skilled craftsmen. New excavations have revealed surprising facts about how this culture was seemingly ...

Tartessos is known today for great wealth and prosperity resulting from metalworking and trade of tin, gold and copper. 'This breaks the paradigm that the Tartessian was an aniconic culture, that ...

Tartessos is now generally considered to be a civilisation that formed from a mixture of indigenous people and Greek and Phoenician colonisers in the Iberian Peninsula.

Recently, researchers came across a broken stone tablet with carvings while conducting excavations at an archaeological site in Spain. The slate dates back between 600 and 400 B.C.E. It was ...

BADAJOZ, Spain - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered the first human representations of the ancient Tartessos people, shedding light on the ...

An international team of researchers have conducted groundbreaking research at the Casas del Turuñuelo site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain. Their work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

In the area thought to have once been part of Tartessos, only two alphabet inscriptions have been found: one with 27 symbols but poorly dated, and the other with only a few symbols preserved.

Some historians, including the Greek philosopher Aristotle, once linked the Tartessos people to the mythical lost city of Atlantis. However this idea "has been widely dismissed in the scientific ...

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Related: 2,600-year-old stone busts of 'lost' ancient Tartessos people discovered in sealed pit in Spain. One side of the tablet contained letters from an alphabet. (Image credit: JFiJ/CSIC) ...

BADAJOZ, Spain - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered the first human representations of the ancient Tartessos people, shedding light on the ...