Tartessos
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tartessians, Tartessus
thumb|300 px|Tartessos, circa 500 BC thumb|Tartessian winged feline statue at the Getty Villa
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Location
- Archaeological discoveries
- Turuñuelo archaeological site
- Metallurgy
- Timeline (10th-5th century BC)
- Carbon dating
- Religion
- Language
- Possible identification as "Tarshish" or "Atlantis"
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
- General
- Atlantis connection
thumb|300 px|Tartessos, circa 500 BC thumb|Tartessian winged feline statue at the Getty Villa
Tartessos () is, as defined by archaeological discoveries, a historical civilization settled in the southern Iberian Peninsula from about the late Bronze Age until the 5th century BC. It had a writing system, identified as Tartessian, that includes some 97 inscriptions in a Tartessian language that is unclassified for lack of data. Tartessos was the first "entity located in southwestern Iberia to be recognised as a kingdom".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tartessos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (20)
On the map
3 mapped locations