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A Phoenician village dating from around 800 BCE has been excavated by archaeologists and is now open to visits from the public in Villaricos. Cuevas townhall and the Junta de Andalucía have been working together to make the area safe for visitors and it was opened this week. [Adsense-C]
“They paved over paradise, and put up a parking lot”…. remember that song? Well, it’s happened in the town of Los Mondragones in Granada, where the townhall bulldozed away a lovely 1st century Roman Villa complex to put up a carpark.
Only about 5 five people in the world realise I’m in second level of a BA in pure mathematics (well, now the almost 6000 a week who visit this blog … minus the 5985 who are Chinese spam bots….) Anyway, ever heard of Leonardo da Pisa? No, not the painter. That’s Vincci. This chap is also known as Fibonacci. He liked rabbits. Take the following example. We have two rabbits (one male, one female). That’s Continue reading 4+1=V unless we’re Italian…. Also some stuff about rabbits
Ignoring the excitement in the townhall and local courts, some archaeologists claim that they have found the remains of an “exciting” Roman city in Ciavieja, an area which is protected due to the Roman remains that have been found there in the past. It’s a plot of land directly behind the skyscraper in El Ejido. Using high-tech scanning equipment, a team from UAL and a Madrid university claim that they have found the remains of Continue reading Meanwhile, in El Ejido…