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200,000-year-old rock carvings found in Marbella. Some of the oldest known human-made carvings in Europe. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Marbella (Marbella Town Council)

Newly Discovered 200,000-Year-Old Rock Carvings in Marbella: Potentially Among Europe’s Oldest Cave Art

14 March 2025

Marbella has just made an incredible discovery that could change everything we thought we knew about prehistoric Europe. Archaeologists working...

The site of the find at the Peña del Castro site. Credit: Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero

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Celtiberian Inscription Found at La Peña del Castro: One of the Earliest Examples of Alphabetic Writing in Northern Iberia

26 February 2025

La Ercina, León, Spain – Archaeological research at the La Peña del Castro site has unveiled an important discovery that...

Detail of the threaded beads on attire UE 344 next to the bones of Individual 343 Credit: David W. Wheatley

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The 5,000-Year-Old Beaded Burials that Reveal Women’s Power in Copper Age Iberia: Over 270,000 Beads

6 February 2025

Archaeologists investigating the Montelirio tholos burial site in southwestern Spain, dating back approximately 5,000 years, have uncovered that the women...

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The world’s oldest wine discovered in liquid form was found in a Roman tomb in Spain

18 June 2024

Archaeologists discovered an urn with a reddish liquid in a family mausoleum dating to the 1st century AD in the...

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Scenes of Warriors from 6th Century BC on a Slate Plaque Discovered at Tartessian Site in Spain

6 June 2024

Archaeologists representing Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC) excavating at the archaeological site of Casas del Turunuelo have uncovered a slate...

View of the excavation carried out in l'Alcúdia in the 2024 University of Alicante campaign. Photo: University of Alicante

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Archaeological excavations unearthed the first great Iberian city in Contestania and the oldest one

11 May 2024

Archaeologists from the University of Alicante and the University of Murcia “Damas y Héroes. In the project “Tras la Ilici...

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Intact Bodies of Catalan Nobles Discovered in Santes Creus Monastery

11 March 2024

A team of archaeologists and anthropologists found the human remains of a dozen members of the Catalan nobility dating back...

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Lead sling bullet inscribed with “Julius Caesar” name found in Spain

5 January 2024

A lead sling bullet inscribed with the name of Julius Caesar and the Ibero-Roman city Ipsca has been discovered in...

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5700-year-old monumental Menga Dolmen reveals it as one of the greatest feats of Neolithic engineering

6 December 2023

A new investigation tracing the source of the gigantic stones that make up the Menga dolmen in southern Spain reveals...

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Spanish Water Worker discovered 2,500-Year-Old two Gold Necklaces

14 September 2023

A worker at a local water company in Spain discovered two gold necklaces thought to date back 2,500 years. Sergio...

Newly Discovered 200,000-Year-Old Rock Carvings in Marbella: Potentially Among Europe’s Oldest Cave Art

Celtiberian Inscription Found at La Peña del Castro: One of the Earliest Examples of Alphabetic Writing in Northern Iberia

The 5,000-Year-Old Beaded Burials that Reveal Women’s Power in Copper Age Iberia: Over 270,000 Beads

The world’s oldest wine discovered in liquid form was found in a Roman tomb in Spain

Scenes of Warriors from 6th Century BC on a Slate Plaque Discovered at Tartessian Site in Spain

Archaeological excavations unearthed the first great Iberian city in Contestania and the oldest one

Intact Bodies of Catalan Nobles Discovered in Santes Creus Monastery

Lead sling bullet inscribed with “Julius Caesar” name found in Spain

5700-year-old monumental Menga Dolmen reveals it as one of the greatest feats of Neolithic engineering

Spanish Water Worker discovered 2,500-Year-Old two Gold Necklaces

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One Of The Largest And Most Significant Iron Age Hoards Ever Discovered In The UK Has Been Unveiled

A 2,200-Year-Old Monumental Pyramidal Structure Discovered in the Judean Desert

110 Megaliths Discovered in Kerala and Inscriptions Revealing Ancient Pilgrimage Center in Andhra Pradesh

Jiroft: The Mysterious Rival of Mesopotamia and the Dawn of an Ancient Civilization

Restoration Complete: Athena Temple in Side Reopens to the Public

3,000-Year-Old Huge Settlement Discovered in Northern France

3,700-Year-Old Bronze Age Ceremonial Site Discovered in Derbyshire, in Northern England

700-Year-Old Lord Vishnu’s Sculpture Washes Ashore on Pedda Rushikonda Beach

Well-Preserved Funerary Enclosures, Mausoleums, and Gladiator Epitaph Discovered in Ancient Roman Colony of Liternum, Italy

Archaeological Complex from the Bulgar-Golden Horde Period Discovered in Tatarstan