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Location: Playa de la Isla , off the coast of Mazarron, Spain: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Site of a sunken ship: History; Founded: 7th–6th century BC: Abandoned: 7th–6th century BC: Periods: Iron Age: Cultures: Phoenician, Iberian: Site notes; Discovered: 1988 (Mazarrón I) 1994 (Mazarrón II): Condition: Conserved at the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena: Ownership: Spain: The ...
The National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática - ARQVA) is a underwater archaeology museum in Cartagena in Murcia, Spain. It owns a large collection of pieces recovered from shipwrecks that begins with the Phoenician shipwrecks of Mazarrón and goes on into the 19th century. [ 1 ]
Tartessos (Spanish: Tartesos) is, as defined by archaeological discoveries, [1] a historical civilization settled in the southern Iberian Peninsula characterized by its mixture of local Paleohispanic and Phoenician traits. It had a writing system, identified as Tartessian, that includes some 97 inscriptions in a Tartessian language.
Archaeology suggests that the original settlers arrived by sea, importing domestic animals such as goats, sheep, pigs and dogs and grains such as wheat, barley and lentils.They also brought with them a set of well-defined socio-cultural practices that seem to have originated and been in use for a long period of time elsewhere.
Ruins of the Roman-era port of Aquileia have been submerged in northeast Italy’s Grado Lagoon for some time as the waters of the Adriatic Sea swallowed the coastal remnants of history. But ...
Television programs, web videos and social media can also bring an understanding of underwater archaeology to a broad audience. The Mardi Gras Shipwreck Project [18] integrated a one-hour HD documentary, [19] short videos for public viewing and video updates during the expedition as part of the educational outreach. Webcasting is also another ...
Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, [1] lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, shore-side facilities, port-related structures, cargoes, human remains and submerged landscapes. [2]
The deadly flooding that rocked Spain this week following intense, historic rainfall is so expansive and severe the area looked like an inland sea from space.. A year’s worth of rain fell in ...