Digging through the gray-brown dirt of eastern Spain, archaeologists thought they knew what to expect. After all, they’d been studying this ancient culture for decades and excavating one of its abandoned sites for years. But as a long-lost face emerged from the ground, archaeologists realized they were wrong. The archaeologists were excavating the courtyard of the Casas del Turuñuelo in Guareña, the Spanish National Research Council said in an April 18 news release. The site is a well-preserved, two-floor structure built by the Tartessians, an ancient Spanish culture. Tartessian culture flourished from the ninth to sixth centuries B.C. in southwestern Spain, according to the World History Encyclopedia. Skilled at silver, tin and iron metalworking, the Tartessians became incredibly wealthy — “like an ancient version of the modern ‘El Dorado,’” a mythical city of gold, per the encyclopedia.
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