Ancient Tartessos ❤️Lost Civilization & Mysteries! 🔥

Ancient Tartessos ❤️Lost Civilization & Mysteries! 🔥

Timeline of Key Events:
1200 BCE: Emergence of Tartessian culture.  
800 BCE: Phoenician traders establish contact.  700–600 BCE: Peak of wealth and palace construction.  
550 BCE: Natural disasters and trade decline.  
500 BCE: Civilization vanishes from historical records. 

Summarise:
Tartessos (9th–6th Century BCE)
Iberian Peninsula’s Atlantis of the West.
Biblical Tarshish? Rich in silver.
Undeciphered Tartessian script.
Gold jewelry hoards (El Carambolo).
Phoenician trade partner.
Sudden disappearance: Tsunami?
Links to Hercules myths.
Solar cult symbols.
Modern Andalusian excavations.
Treasure hunt in Guadalquivir River.

Factual Statements:  
1. Tartessos was the first Iberian civilization to use a writing system, derived from Phoenician script.  
2. The El Carambolo treasure (1958) revealed gold artifacts linked to Tartessian religious rituals.  

Benefits: 
1. Pioneered advanced metallurgy, boosting Mediterranean trade.  
2. Created early hydraulic systems for sustainable agriculture.  

Losses:  
1. Over-reliance on mining led to environmental degradation.  
2. Cultural assimilation by Carthaginians erased their distinct identity.  

Myths:  
1. Linked to the mythical **Atlantis** due to its sudden disappearance.  
2. Legends claim Tartessian kings hid **vast treasures** in underground chambers.  

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