Science: Archaeology: Regional: Europe: Spain

Articles on archaeology, cultural heritage and ancient navigation, in Catalan, English and Spanish.

From MSNBC, scientists and genealogists will finally test the DNA of the remains in Spain, along with the remains of Columbus' son and brother, in hopes of resolving the dispute.

4 km from Arbeca, Garrigues District, near the Urgell Canal where the virgin roughness of the broken, dry landscape is transformed into the smooth, worked horizontality of the irrigated plains, we find the area known as Vilars and, buried there, the most incredible and splendid present the past could offer us: an Ilergetian fortress constructed in the 8th century B.C.E., an exceptional historical and archaeological complex, unique in this country.

It lies in the eastern edge of the Spanish Plateau, in the Iberian Mountain System; an area of crucial importance for communications between the Spanish mainland and the Mediterranean coast.