Real treasures. This is how some statues discovered by archaeologists in Extremadura, Spain, which are believed to be over 2,500 years old, can be classified.

The elements found initially surprise the scientific world because they are, they say, the first human representations of Tarteso (Tartessos), “a lost civilization”.

On April 18, it was announced that the work being carried out in Spain “revealed, within the framework of the V excavation campaign at the Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Badajoz), the remains of five figural reliefs dating from the 5th century BC, the first belonging to the tartesian culture (8th-4th century BC)”, explains that country’s Higher Council for Scientific Research.

What are the relics found

The area where the remarkable discovery took place “is accessible from the patio of the building where a mass sacrifice of animals, mainly horses, was documented.”

What’s unusual about the new finding, they point out, “is that the images match human faces.”

The aforementioned Council says that “two of the figural reliefs are nearly complete and correspond to two female figures adorned with conspicuous earrings or earrings representing typical pieces of Tartessian goldsmithing.”

In addition to these two relics, they report, other fragments of reliefs have been recovered and belong to at least three other individuals, one of them identified as a warrior by retaining part of the helmet.

What is Tartessus

Tartessos, or Tarteso, denotes El Confidencial, is an ancient civilization, the first Western civilization that is said to have flourished in the south of the Iberian Peninsula in the 12th century BC. C.

“It was conceived practically by the German archaeologist and historian Adolf Schulten during his excavations in Spain in the 1920s, supported by a series of very vague classical texts, only that excerpted by the Greek historian Herodotus, and another referring to the subject of the Greeks with a king named Argantonio, they gave a clue about Tartessos.

In any case, it would be nowhere near matching, either in date or location, with the supposed Tartessian sculptures found at the El Turuñuelo site in Badajoz,” the Spanish media delved.

The Tartessian culture was a civilization that settled in the western Mediterranean region

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When the EFE office announced the news of what had been discovered about the Tartessian culture, it said that this is the mythical pre-Roman civilization that occupied the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the 8th and 4th centuries BC.

The mere mention of Tartesus divides opinion. One of them is quoted by El Confidencial in the voice of Diego Ruiz: “Tartessos as such is nothing more and nothing less than the result of contamination by Phoenician colonization in the 10th century BC. C of the peninsula, which mixes with the indigenous people of the eastern region of Andalusia.

Paradigm shift

However, the Superior Council for Scientific Research stated: “This extraordinary finding represents a profound paradigm shift in the interpretation of Tartesus, traditionally regarded as an aniconic culture (an artistic expression that deliberately flees from any anthropomorphic or zoomorphic allusion) to representing divinity through of animal or plant motifs, or by betilos (sacred stones)”.

Finally, “the find only affects the importance of the site and the significance of the Tartessian culture in the Guadiana Valley during its final moments.”

The two busts depicted are believed to personify women who were goddesses, while a third bust depicted a female warrior. The other two are not so well preserved, but could also be some kind of gods. However, they could also represent part of the population of Tartessos, publishes El Heraldo from Mexico.

Relationship with Atlantis

The Aztec medium recalls that “Sometimes Tartessos is mentioned as the source of the legend of Atlantis, the mythical city.”

In general, he says, the story of the world of Atlantis is believed to have been first told 2,300 years ago by the Greek philosopher Plato, who “invented it.”

He points out that fans of the story persist in the idea that he actually existed.

One theory about where the lost civilization disappeared is that it was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle. Also known as the Devil’s Triangle, the Atlantic Ocean site became an urban legend after more than 50 ships and 20 planes disappeared in the area.

Archaeologist David Anderson, quoted in National Geographic, resolves the issue with this answer about Atlantis (or Atlantis): We’ll never find Atlantis because it’s totally fictional.