Legends of Tartessos. Tales of Tartessos stretch all the way back to the mid-seventh century B.C. A Greek trader called Colaeus set sail from his home island of Samos, off the coast of present-day ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...