The bronze islands: The Pityusai islands in the networks metallurgical in prehistory

    8 february – 5 may 2019 Metallurgy is the transformation of metallic minerals to obtain metal. Its origins date back to the Near East approximately 7,000 years ago. In the Pitiusas islands, all the archaeological objects of prehistoric epoch known are based on copper, metal that our islands

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Passion for the sea: the Vilar-Sancho collection

    Doctor by family tradition, Vilar-Sancho graduated from the University of Valencia and received his doctorate in Madrid, specializing in Hydrology. But, above all, together with his wife Pilar Parra Rodríguez, he was an enthusiastic lover of the sea, practicing submarine fishing from a very young age and passionately

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UNEARTHING THE SILENCE. Antoni Benaiges, the teacher who promised the sea

In August 2010, photographer Sergi Bernal was able to graphically document the opening of a mass grave in the mountains of Pedraja, near Bañuelos de Bureba. Back in Barcelona, ​​he received a call informing him about the possibility that, among the hundred bodies recovered, one of them could be that

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Learning by doing

The Department of Didacticals of the Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera has always been characterised by its dynamism and commitment to teaching techniques, and it’s definitely a section that defines us in our cultural program. With each of the events aimed at children, we always try to update and

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