Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE onward and provided a standardized monetary system for ancient ...

A funerary stele of an auxiliary cavalryman, discovered in Fuente Encalada, sheds new light on the presence and deployment of Roman troops in the Iberian Peninsula during the 1st century A.D. A ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

Roman arch remains, Mengíbar, Spain(Courtesy Institute of Iberian Archaeology/Jaén University) Remains of an imposing arch, believed to have been around 25 feet tall and more than 50 feet wide, that ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Archaeologists have found one of the oldest artifacts of Jewish culture on the Iberian Peninsula at an excavation site in the south of Portugal, close to the city of Silves (Algarve). On a marble ...

In 219 BC the Carthaginians, who had been expanding their control of Iberia, besieged and destroyed the city of Saguntum, about 30 km north of modern Valencia. Some time before this the Saguntines and ...

Modern Spain is built upon the remnants of many earlier peoples and cultures, whose traces are scattered across the country.