Egyptian objects, brought by the Phoenician merchants, are very rare in the Iberian Peninsula. In our Egyptian collection, we can highlight the amulets of the gods carved in talcum stone. Many of these pieces may have been made by the Phoenicians, ever though they have Egyptian figures and symbols. That is…

Between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, the Italic Peninsula was inhabited by a diversity of civilizations. One of them was the Etruscan people, located in the north and on the west coast, the Greeks to the south and the Latins in the center, in the territory of the seven…

The Iberian city of Vilajoiosa occupied the same area as the Phoenician colony, the hill in the old town of Vilajoiosa. In the 5th century BC it probably had a strong Greek presence; sources speak about Alonís, a colony of the Greeks of Massalia (Marseille), although this and other Greek colonies…