October
20
/ 2020
Archaeologists in Almazán Spain are boxed into a corner with a double-edged mystery in which a missing carved stone holds the answer to why eleven bodies were buried beneath a massive medieval village wall, and by whom. Spain’s Soria province, in the Castile and León region, features many medieval villages with horse-worn stone streets shadowed by Romanesque architecture. The Museo Numantino exhibits the regional archaeology, including a 400,000-year-old elephant pelvis. The town of Almazán was founded around 1128 AD when a vast defensive wall and deep moat were constructed to protect this powerful Spanish political center where the kings of Castile and Navarre met on the banks of the River Duero to strategize on their guerrilla campaigns into the Muslim
