Back in August, I was lucky enough to be taken on a guided tour of Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppida in El Pais Vasco, northern Spain. I posted some pictures and a very brief blurb about the site in this entry. One of the things I mentioned (although have since edited) was the claim that artefacts [...]
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Iruña-Veleia revisited
Posted in sites, tagged archaeology, Basque, hoax, Spain on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Iruña-Veleia
Posted in photography, sites, tagged archaeology, photography, Roman, sites, Spain on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppidum in Alava, northern Spain:
Reconstruction features very heavily in the presentation of the site, for example this mosaic over a water tank:
The finds from the site include what is claimed to be the oldest representation of the crucifixion of Christ and the oldest known writings in the Basque language*.
In Late Antiquity, the [...]
Cómo ser arqueólogo en España
Posted in glossary, tagged glossary, Spain, Spanish on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For two weeks now I have been working on a commercial excavation near to Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital city of El Pais Vasco, the Basque Country, so I´m afraid finding the chance to update has not been easy. The site is a medieval settlement, spread across two sides of a valley, with terracing on one slope [...]
