{"id":162887,"date":"2023-04-27T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/2600-year-old-stone-busts-of-lost-ancient-tartessos-people-discovered-in-sealed-pit-in-spain"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T15:24:47","slug":"2600-year-old-stone-busts-of-lost-ancient-tartessos-people-discovered-in-sealed-pit-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/2600-year-old-stone-busts-of-lost-ancient-tartessos-people-discovered-in-sealed-pit-in-spain","title":{"rendered":"2,600-year-old stone busts of \u2018lost\u2019 ancient Tartessos people discovered in sealed pit in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2600-year-old-stone-busts-of-lost-ancient-tartessos-people-discovered-in-sealed-pit-in-spain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five life-size busts of human figures that could be the first-known human depictions of the Tartessos, a people who formed an ancient civilization that disappeared more than 2,500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The carved stone faces, which archaeologists date to the fifth century B.C., were found hidden inside a sealed pit in an adobe temple at Casas del Turu\u00f1uelo, an ancient Tartessian site in southern Spain. The pieces were scattered amongst animal bones, mostly from horses, that likely came from a mass sacrifice, according to a translated statement (opens in new tab) published April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five life-size busts of human figures that could be the first-known human depictions of the Tartessos, a people who formed an ancient civilization that disappeared more than 2,500 years ago. The carved stone faces, which archaeologists date to the fifth century B.C., were found hidden inside a sealed pit in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}