If so, Tartessos would have existed even before the first Phoenician colonies were established in the 10th and ninth centuries B.C. ( How a Phoenician queen became a notorious villain in the Bible ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five life-size busts of human figures that could be the first-known human depictions of the Tartessos, a people who formed an ancient civilization that ...

Another of the figures is thought to represent a warrior. The Tartessos civilization inhabited the southern Iberian Peninsula and is known to us only from archaeological discoveries. It was ...

BADAJOZ, Spain - Archaeologists excavating the ancient Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered the first human representations of the ancient Tartessos people, shedding light on the ...

The Tartessos people were an ancient civilization that first settled in the Iberian peninsula around the eighth century B.C. and were known for their elaborate writing system. By the fourth ...