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Lost City of Almanzor May Have Been Found: LiDAR Data Points to Medina Alzahira
For more than a century, the exact location of Medina Alzahira, the vanished seat of power built by Almanzor at the height of Umayyad rule in al-Andalus, has remained one of medieval Iberia’s most persistent archaeological riddles. Dozens of hypotheses were proposed. None could be anchored to verifiable physical evidence. That may now have changed.…
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A 5,000-Year-Old Dolmen Reenters History: Medieval Islamic Burials Transform the Meaning of Menga
For most of its modern history, the Menga Dolmen has been treated as a closed chapter of European prehistory—a monumental relic frozen in the Neolithic past. New research now shows that this assumption is fundamentally wrong. Far from being abandoned after antiquity, Menga was intentionally reclaimed as a sacred space during the Islamic Middle Ages,…