Cantabria

Archaeologists in northern Spain have unearthed compelling evidence of Rome's brutal conquest tactics. The discovery of a lone skull at the ancient hillfort of La Loma reveals how Roman legionnaires displayed the severed heads of their enemies as war trophies and intimidation symbols during the fierce Cantabrian Wars that raged across the Iberian Peninsula over two millennia ago. The fractured skull, discovered in 2020 beneath the collapsed rubble of defensive walls at La Loma in Santibáñez de la Peña, Palencia, belonged to a middle-aged Cantabrian man killed during Rome's final assault on the fortified settlement around 25 BC. According to research published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating confirmed the skull dates to the exact