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The Carambolo Treasure

~7th c. BC · found 1958, El Carambolo, Camas, near Seville, Spain
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Carambolo Treasure: still unexplained.

21 pieces of Tartessian gold, the wealth that fed the Atlantis myth

The law of this ground: Spanish national heritage; held in Seville.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
21 pieces of Tartessian gold, the wealth that fed the Atlantis myth
The account

Workers at a pigeon-shooting club on a hill above Seville dug up a ceramic pot in 1958 packed with twenty-one pieces of elaborate goldwork, Spanish gold worked in the Phoenician manner, twenty-seven centuries old. It belonged to Tartessos, the rich, half-legendary kingdom of the Spanish south that some have tried to read as Plato's Atlantis.

How it was found
  • Workers expanding a pigeon-shooting club on a hill outside Seville in 1958 dug up a ceramic pot holding 21 pieces of worked Tartessian gold.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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