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Europe’s Oldest Mule Found in Catalonia Rewrites the Timeline of Phoenician Influence
Early Iron Age hybrid uncovered in the Penedès region suggests equid crossbreeding knowledge reached Europe centuries earlier than believed When archaeologists opened a small Iron Age pit at Hort d’en Grimau nearly four decades ago, the discovery seemed intriguing but not extraordinary: a partially burned human skeleton, mixed with the bones of an equid. Only…