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A tuna vertebra dating back approximately 20 million years has been discovered in Portugal; it is the first time a find of this significance has been located on the European side of the Atlantic. The vertebra was discovered in the Cape Espichel region, where the bones of a new dinosaur species were also found.
It was not discovered in an archaeological excavation, but in a wooden chest of gifts from a grandfather to his grandson. The coin was used to pay for a bus ticket in the 1950s and is now on display in a museum.
The base was three metres deep, beneath private building works. It appears that the five lines of Latin text are a dedication from a high-ranking Roman official to his 'dearest' wife.
The piece, discovered in September during archaeological surveys at a private construction site, lay three metres deep amid rubble.
On Tuesday, February 3, the Algarve Archaeological Association (AAA) will be presenting two lectures, in English, by archaeologists André Tomé and Humberto Verissimo. The first lecture will be at 2.30pm The post Archaeology lecture “Between Worlds” appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Connections in the Upper Palaeolithic were not isolated encounters but part of complex, stable social networks maintained over millennia, thereby ensuring the survival of human groups.
Home Tourism An Empire, Hidden in Plain Sight in the Algarve An Empire, Hidden in Plain Sight in the Algarve Roman salting tanks in São Lourenço reveal a working past beneath a quiet Algarve walk.
A whale bone, presumed to be thousands of years old according to a palaeontologist from the University of Coimbra (UC), was identified today on Buarcos beach, north of the city of Figueira da Foz.