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2,500-Year-Old Greek House in Spain Reveals a Painted ‘Siren’ and Traces of Daily Life
Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek settlement of Empúries in northeastern Spain have uncovered new evidence of daily life inside one of the earliest houses of Neapolis, including a kitchen, storage vessels and an unusual painted female head that may represent a siren. The ceramic fragment dates to the 6th century BC, when the Greek settlement…
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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…