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Ancient Road in Spain Reveals 3,000-Year-Old Burial Landscape Linked to Stelae and Cultural Exchange
Archaeologists excavating beside an old road in south-west Spain have found rare evidence linking prehistoric stelae directly with burials, movement routes, and changing funerary customs. The discovery comes from Las Capellanías, near Cañaveral de León in Huelva. The site first drew attention in 2018, when a carved diademated stela was found by chance. Later surveys…
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Unique 2,500-Year-Old Bronze Ritual Cart with Achelous Found at Casas del Turuñuelo
A small bronze cart, broken in half and buried for nearly 2,500 years, has become the latest surprise from Casas del Turuñuelo, the Tartessian site in southwestern Spain that keeps forcing archaeologists to rethink one of the Iberian Peninsula’s most elusive ancient cultures. The object was found during the eighth excavation campaign at the site,…
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First Large Iron Age House Found on Spain’s Cíes Islands Reveals Pre-Roman Life on the Atlantic Edge
Researchers from the Universidade de Vigo have confirmed the first large castro-period domestic structure ever documented in Spain’s Cíes Islands, offering the clearest evidence yet that people lived in the archipelago before Roman power reached this part of the Atlantic coast. The discovery was made at Castro de Hortas, an Iron Age hillfort on the…