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Tartessos
Tarteso
Tartessos is the name used in Greek and Roman sources for a wealthy ancient civilisation and—perhaps—a harbour city or cluster of settlements in southwestern Iberia, flourishing from the late Bronze Age into the first half of the first millennium BC. It was famed for metalworking and intensive trade with Phoenician and Greek traders. The exact location of the legendary capital is uncertain; archaeological centres in Huelva province and nearby sites are associated with the Tartessian culture.
Its prime
600 BC
Today
Legendary
As it stood in 600 BC
What Tartessos looked like in its prime.
A low riverside emporium of the early Iron Age: rectilinear streets of houses set on dry‑stone foundations with white‑plastered wattle‑and‑daub upper walls and flat earthen roofs; a larger central palatial or sanctuary complex formed of stone platforms, terraced courtyards and flanking tower-structures; clustered open workshops with furnaces and slag, and a tidal estuary with wooden quays and small boats. Colours are pale earth, sun‑bleached plaster, dark wooden timbers and the black‑red sheen of metalworking deposits.
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8 places to explore in 600 BC.
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