A very important site for understanding the processes of iberization and romanization of the Eastern Pyrenees Largest batch of ceramic material ever recovered in the Eastern Pyrenees Findings of jars, loom weights, animal skeletons, and Roman military elements Hannibal and his troops through the Pyrenees, a historical episode of first magnitude, today still very poorly…
“The Secret History of Mummies: The Golden Mummy” is a documentary co-produced by RTVE and Story Productions showing the most unknown and surprising history of the mummies of ancient Egypt. Collaboration between the National Archaeological Museum of Sapin and the QuirónSalut Hospital in Madrid During the study doctors found a secret hidden for more than…
It is endowed with €80,000 and is the first private initiative in this field Madrid, 26 November 2018 – The National Archaeological Museum of Spain has hosted the award ceremony for the first edition of the Palarq Foundation’s National Award for Archaeology and Paleontology to the project ‘Building Tartesos’, which sheds new light on the…
The research is carried out by the team led by Dr. Sebastián Celestino Pérez, archaeologist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Institute of Archaeology (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura) According to Antonio Gallardo Ballart, president of the Palarq Foundation: “The winning project illuminates the myth of Tartesos by translating it into reality and bringing…
Papers can be submitted from September 10 to October 20 Madrid, September 7, 2018 – Palarq Foundation, a private, non-profit organization created to support Spanish Archaeological Missions abroad, excluding Europe, has announced the first edition of the National Award for Archaeology and Paleontology bearing its name and endowed with €80,000. Entries may be submitted from…
Ebro Delta, Tarragona. Spain
The Ebro Sea Underwater Archaeological Project is the most important contemporary underwater archeology project in the history of Spain. More than 20 years of research focused on this specific project of cataloging and prospecting for submerged merchant ships, ships and planes in the waters of the Mediterranean, with the collaboration of the best professionals in the state in archeology and technical diving.
The importance of knowing the location, its morphology, its history and its relations with the surrounding territory will generate a before and after in underwater archeology for scientific research in the Iberian Peninsula
Luxor, Egypt
During the fifteen previous archaeological campaigns, excavations were carried out on the upper terrace of the temple, where there were a large number of limestone and sandstone blocks scattered over the entire surface. These present reliefs and inscriptions belonging to the walls of the chapels that contain more than 16,000 records.
Outside the southern perimeter wall, an administrative building has been located, related to the temple in which a large number of ostraca and papyrus fragments belonging to the temple archive have been found. Its contents consisted basically of ceramic vessels, animal bones and seven stone monoliths of various sizes and materials, six of them inscribed, which are currently on display at the Museum of Luxor
Prado Vargas Cave, Cornejo, Burgos, Spain
The Prado Vargas cave site is located on the south slope of the Cantabrian Mountains, connecting with northern edge of the Castilian Plateau. This cave belongs to the sixth level of the Ojo Guareña endokarst system and it preserves a karst sedimentary infilling 9 m thick, which contains several levels of terminal Mousterian occupations. The later register Neanderthal occupations dated between 54 and 39 ka (level N4) and older (levels N8 and N9) (Navazo et al., 2021). The excavations started in 2016 in the level N4, and they have yielded a large amount of archaeological remains, indicating that the cavity was visited recurrently, registering long-term occupations that include butchery activities, wood and skin works, recycle economy and activities that developed both inside and in the surrounding landscape. This level has confirmed the presence of children too, as evidenced by the presence of a Neanderthal kid tooth found in 2019
La Bastida (Totana, Murcia), Spain
The ‘Almoloya-Bastida Project’ started in 2009 with the aim of better understanding the emergence, development, and collapse of El Argar (2200-1550 cal BCE). This society of south-eastern Iberia is one of the best examples of the radical political and economic changes that took place in Early Bronze Age Europe. Our interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research has focused on two exceptional archaeological sites: La Almoloya and La Bastida, both in the region of Murcia (Spain). They are in the homeland of El Argar and were occupied during the whole Argaric period
Abric Romaní, Capellades, Tarragona, Spain
The Abric Romaní (Capellades, Barcelona) is a Neandertal site discovered by Amador Romaní in 1909. From 1983, and under the direction of Professor Eudald Carbonell, the annual excavations were resumed and have not stopped since then. It is a sequence of more than 40 meters of travertines alternating with beds of silts in which the existence of at least 27 high-resolution archaeological levels has been determined. The dating of the complete sequence indicates the existence of sedimentary beds between 40 and 110 ky BP. Highlighting the excavation of about 300 m2 of surface which has allowed, the reconstruction of the domestic areas of the Neandertal groups. These occupations correspond to short-term settlements, of a few days, and long-term ones, which reached several months and would group a greater number of individuals. In addition to the combustion structures identified in all levels, 120 wood imprints have been recovered
Banyoles, Girona, Spain
La Draga, dated between 5300-5000 cal BC, is the only lake-dwelling site in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. It was discovered in 1990 when the land surrounding the lake was being arranged to accommodate the rowing competition in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. Since then, the site has been excavated in several phases. The first field season took place as a rescue project, when the preservation of organic material was observed. Later the excavation continued as a systematic research project under the supervision of Josep Tarrús, Julia Chinchilla and Àngel Bosch. Finally, from 2008 until the present day, the research project continues as under the direction of the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia -MAC-, the Autonomous University of Barcelona -UAB- and the Spanish National Research Council –CSIC-IMF, Barcelona-. The site has an extension estimated around 10.000 and 15,000 m2 and the area excavated is of 1000 m2, representing between 5-7% of the total area of the site
The Oxyrhynchus site (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) is located 190 km. south of Cairo
The Archaeological Site of Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa), the ancient city of Per Medyed is located at 190 km south of Cairo.
The Archaeological Mission of the University of Barcelona has the concession since 1992, a complex place where we can find burials from Saite Period to Christian-Byzantine times, including the Persian and Ptolemaic-Roman World (664 BC- 7th century).
Both the Saite tombs as Persian and Roman tombs are built with white limestones blocks (the blocks are bigger in the Saite and Persian Period), with one or more funerary chambers and offering chambers or Rituals chambers. In some cases have still the vaulted ceilings or with the ceiling built with a large and flat white stones
