Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

Ancient site in present-day Cordoba, Spain. Credit: Edmundo Sáez / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new study of 8,839 ceramic fragments has strengthened evidence that Mellaria was a Roman mining center connected to major trade routes in southern Spain. Researchers examined pottery recovered during archaeological campaigns in 2022 and 2023. They also reviewed excavation results from the area around Cerro de Masatrigo. Together, the evidence of…