The Ancient People Who Burned Their Culture to the Ground

Photo caption: Team members have found the bones of more than 50 animals sacrificed in a courtyard at Casas del Turuñuelo. Courtesy Construyendo Tarteso at the Archeological Institute of Mérida. Article by Blair Mastbaum. Atlas Obscura – September 23, 2021.

At a site in Spain, archaeologists piece together the last days of Tartessos, an advanced society that vanished 2,500 years ago.

Smoke billows skyward, partially obscuring a monumental, two-story hall. The smell of roasting meat is thick in the night air, still oppressively hot though the sun has set on this arid valley in what is now southwestern Spain. […]

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