Before Rome existed, before Phoenician ships ever reached the western Mediterranean, and around the same time the first fortified villages of the Argaric culture were rising in southeastern Iberia, a farming community on a rocky ridge in inland Morocco was already digging a ditch and piling up earth. What they were defending against is still […]

Antes de que existiera Roma, antes de que los fenicios cruzaran el Mediterráneo occidental y mientras en el sureste de la península ibérica empezaban a levantarse los primeros poblados fortificados de la cultura argárica, una comunidad instalada sobre una cresta rocosa del interior de Marruecos ya excavaba un foso y amontonaba tierra para protegerse de […]

Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists had only seen its like twice before in more than sixty years of excavation. Preventive digging ahead of a private housing development uncovered a […]

Antes de levantar un edificio en Pontecagnano Faiano, en la provincia de Salerno, hay que asumir casi por norma que debajo hay una tumba. Así ha sido, una vez más: los trabajos previos a la construcción de un complejo residencial privado han sacado a la luz un tramo hasta ahora inédito de la necrópolis occidental […]