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Celts may trace roots to Spain and Portugal

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:17:00 -0400

Professor John Koch believes the Celtic homeland is more likely Spain or Portugal than northern Europe. Koch, who is a professor at the Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Centre at the University of Wales, has found evidence of Celtic texts in Spain and Portugal that are 500 years earlier than those from northern Europe.

Copper Age "Stonehenge of Sevilla" could become supermarket

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:32:12 -0400

Castilleja, Spain's mayor Carmelo Cebo does not believe in the value of the 4,500-year-old Copper Age burial site near Sevilla, calling it "just a pile of stones," not worth saving. The site may be destined to be bulldozed to make way for developers.

Alfonso X's Book of Games (1283) now available online

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:06:32 -0400

Lord Tristan d'Avignon provides an online copy of his teaching document for medieval games, based on Alfonso X's Book of Games from the thirteenth century.

Renaissance textiles in Kansas City

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:49:24 -0400

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri will present Revealing, Reversible and Resplendent: 15th-17th-Century Italian and Spanish Textiles through August 17, 2008. The exhibit includes elaborately-embroidered and woven religious and secular pieces (photo)

Spanish drought reveals medieval city

Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:36:49 -0400

A severe drought affecting the city of Barcelona, Spain has lowered the water table in the massive Sau reservoir, revealing a once-submerged medieval village. The town was flooded when the reservoir, which supplies Barcelona, was built in the 1960s. (photo)

Canada's Red Bay Project proves Basque whalers visited Labrador in the 16th century

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:22:15 -0400

A new report by the Canadian government gives a detailed picture of Basque whaling and shipbuilding in 16th century Red Bay, Labrador. The report discusses artifacts discovered on the San Juan, a galeon sunk in 1565 and recently excavated.

West Kingdom scholar wins Fulbright Scholarship

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:30:54 -0400

Pachomius Oneshoe reports that West Kingdom resident Lady Gabriela D'Avila (Mary Curtis) has won a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study in Spain.

[GLE] Forest Maiden

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:58:36 -0400

Start: 2008/05/02 - 17:00

End: 2008/05/04 - 11:00

Timezone: US/Central

description:
A call goes out for all noble fighters to take part in a Heroic Tourney and vie to claim for their consort the title of "Forest Maiden".

The snows have melted; the sweltering heat has yet to arrive. It is time for a Pilgrimage.

The Shire of Blackmoor Keep welcomes you to Northern Spain where, in a tradition dating back to the 8th Century, Santiago de Compostela is the destination of pilgrims.

Location:
Shire of Blackmoor Keep (Pineville, Louisiana)

[MID] First Contact: Moors in Hispania

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:42:13 -0400

Start: 2008/05/03 - 10:00

End: 2008/05/03 - 20:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

description:
1297 years and 4 days earlier, on April 29, 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad (Taric the One Eyed) swept into Visigothic Hispania. After his Berber armies arrived at Gibraltar, the Iberian Peninsula would never be the same again.

The influences brought by Tariq and his men would resonate through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, making this area a crossroads of music, literature, and social practices.

Location:
Marche of Gwyntarian (Akron, Ohio)

Teribus to perform in Midrealm

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:13:37 -0400

Teribus (featuring Midrealm drummer Nevik) will be performing their first concert within the borders of the Barony of Fenix in the Middle Kingdom on March 22, 2008.

Purloined map returned to Spain

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:17:12 -0500

A rare 15th century Ptolemy world view map stolen in 2007 from the National library of Spain has been discovered in a Sydney, Australia art gallery and returned to Spain.

Archaeologists explore 450 year old shipwreck off Florida

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:35:50 -0500

Archaeologists are studying the buried remains of a ship from a Spanish colonization fleet led by Don Tristan de Luna.

Archaeologists seek early Spanish evidence in Georgia

Fri, 7 Dec 2007 19:20:01 -0500

Archaeologists working on a dig in southern Telfair County, Georgia, believed they were looking for a 17th century Spanish mission. Instead they found something even more interesting: evidence of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's 1540 travels through the state.

FBI Returns Stolen Maps to Spain

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:36:19 -0500

Earlier this year, a man named Cesar Gomez Rivero from Uruguay allegedly walked into the Biblioteca Nacional de España and swiped a series of maps from a 15th century edition of Geographia (one of four major treatises of Ptolemy, the Greek scholar who lived in Roman Egypt during the second century).

The Nina tours the southern U.S.

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:39:21 -0500

The Nina, "the Most Historically Accurate Replica of a Columbus Ship Ever Built," will be touring the southern United States during November and December 2007. Tours are available.