Vicente G. Olaya
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Spanish-Argentine expedition to verify whether a geoglyph located in the Andes via Google Earth is genuine (opens the original)
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The Dictionary of the Spanish Language explains that a geoglyph is a “large figure on slopes or in wide plains, carved directly into the ground or made with stones, especially by prehistoric peoples.” Of all those located worldwide, the most famous are the Nazca lines (Peru), which have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are visible only from surrounding mountains or from the air, which gives them an aura of mystery. Now, a group of researchers from Argentina and Spain will study a
First diplodocus found outside North America discovered in Spain (opens the original)
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All known diplodocus ― a 25-meter-long dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago ― come from the same North American deposit, the formation known as the Morrison Formation in the western United States. However, the recent discovery of one of these specimens at La Tejería (El Castellar, Teruel, Spain) “challenges our understanding of dinosaur distribution during the Late Jurassic,” write researchers from the Joint Paleontology Foundation Teruel-Dinópolis in the scientific journal Journal of
From the Treasure of Villena to the French Crown Jewels: The lucrative business of stealing pieces of history (opens the original)
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Museum robberies are an old business. And, since 2023, the rise in the price of gold has revitalized it. Over the past nine years, the value of an ounce of gold has increased fivefold. As a result, the European museums with gold artifacts are trembling, and currently reinforcing all their security measures. The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has warned these institutions about the violent gangs that carry out these robberies; these groups don’t hesitate to use ex
Early Christian church that survived Muslim rule is found in southeastern Spain (opens the original)
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At the end of July in the year 711, the troops of General Táriq ibn Ziyad defeated those of King Don Rodrigo in the battle of Guadalete. Thus began the Islamic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, ending the Visigothic Kingdom. But in the southeast of Hispania, there was a pocket of resistance. The region of Tudmir, which stretched across parts of the current provinces of Alicante and Murcia and was governed by a Visigoth nobleman named Teodomiro (or Theodomir), put up an effective fight. As the t
Roman funerary sphinx found embedded in a stairway in Spain (opens the original)
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The archaeological site of El Monastil, located in the town of Elda, in Spain’s Mediterranean province of Alicante, has been occupied by all the principal cultures that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula from the Bronze Age through the Andalusi period, including the Roman, Byzantine and Visigothic eras. Each one of them left an extensive archaeological record behind. Now, the site’s managers have announced the discovery of a Roman funerary sphinx from the first century AD, which was later reused in
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