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Submitted by DavidMorgan on Saturday, 13 June 2020  Page Views: 2159

Multi-periodSite Name: Campo Iruña Veleia
Country: Spain
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Region: Pais Vasco Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Vitoria-Gasteiz
Latitude: 42.841514N  Longitude: 2.786884W
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Campo Iruña Veleia
Campo Iruña Veleia submitted by Creative Commons : Site in Pais Vasco Spain Image copyright: egizu (EGIZU Getxo Euskaldun Elkartea), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Veleia was a Roman town in Hispania, now located in the Basque Autonomous Community, 10 kilometres west of Vitoria. The town was an important station on the Roman road ab Asturica Burdigalam that ran parallel to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. It was alleged to contain the oldest known texts written in the Basque language as well as, allegedly, the oldest representation of the crucifixion of Jesus found to date. Later these finds were exposed as forgeries. (see comment below)

At its height, the city could have been inhabited by some five to ten thousand people, and apparently went through different cycles of prosperity and decline into the Early Middle Ages until it was finally abandoned.

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Note: Spanish archaeologist sentenced for faking Basque finds
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Campo Iruña Veleia
Campo Iruña Veleia submitted by Creative Commons : Site in Pais Vasco Spain Image copyright: egizu (EGIZU Getxo Euskaldun Elkartea), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Campo Iruña Veleia submitted by Creative Commons : Site in Pais Vasco Spain Image copyright: mahatsorria, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Campo Iruña Veleia submitted by Creative Commons : Iruña-Veleia, showing truncation of a road by the insertion of a later wall Image copyright: Kid Vinyl, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Campo Iruña Veleia submitted by Creative Commons : Roman oppidum of Iruña-Veleia Image copyright: Kid Vinyl, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Re: Campo Iruña Veleia by Hatty on Sunday, 14 June 2020
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We featured this hilarious case some little time ago since it has all the hallmarks of our own dear academics. "Ooh, just what we've been looking for, we're much older than anyone else." Our lot prefer Anglo-Saxons and they have to forgo the Egyptian stuff, though the Irish go in for it occasionally -- "It's from North Africa, you know." The English and the Irish are joined by the Welsh when it comes to mysterious objects with writing six hundred years earlier than anyone's got a right to.

The archaeologist and his two co-conspirators (one a geologist) were weighed off with what looked to be stiff prison sentences except the Guardian assured us they wouldn't have to go inside on account of Spain automatically suspending first-time custodials. Excellent! Not because we're Howard Leaguers but because it ought to have been the academic establishment whose feet shouldn't have touched for taking it seriously in the first place. As one of the crims said, "We were basically having a laugh."
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Re: Campo Iruña Veleia by davidmorgan on Thursday, 11 June 2020
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In The Guardian - Spanish archaeologist sentenced for faking Basque finds

A Spanish archaeologist whose staggering discoveries included one of the earliest representations of the crucifixion and proof that the written Basque language was centuries older than previously thought has been found guilty of faking the finds.

The saga began in June 2006 when Eliseo Gil presented artefacts excavated from the Roman town of Veleia, near the Basque city of Vitoria.

The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and with Basque words that predated the earliest known written examples of the language by 600 years.
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