• 600-Year-Old Helmets Found off Spain’s Coast Were Not Roman After All

    600-Year-Old Helmets Found off Spain’s Coast Were Not Roman After All

    Medieval helmets found off Spain’s coast have overturned a long-standing archaeological assumption. For decades, a group of iron helmets recovered from the seabed near Benicarló, in eastern Spain, seemed to belong to the ancient Mediterranean world. They had been found in the same underwater zone as Roman anchor stocks, amphorae and bronze helmets, so the…