"Parts of the ancient city that are important archaeologically have reportedly been destroyed due to the construction of an irrigation channel. The ditch, which is nearly 800 feet long, was dug last week without the proper permits on farmland near the village of Padilla del Duero in the province of Valladolid, northern Spain, Spanish news agency EFE reported."
The ditch cuts through an important part of the archaeological site of Pintia, an ancient settlement that dates back around 2,400 years ago, before the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
The translation of "Pintia di Ambang Kehancuran." to English is "Pintia on the Brink of Destruction."
The founder of Pintia is Vaccaei, a pre-Roman Celtic people who inhabited the northern region of Spain and its surroundings. Pintia eventually came under Roman control, and the site was later occupied by the Visigoths, an ancient Germanic people. All these civilizations left their mark of occupation in Pintia. This settlement was ultimately abandoned in the early Middle Ages, possibly due to the invasion of Arab armies. Among the remnants destroyed by the newly dug irrigation channels in Pintia are houses, walls, roads, and household ceramics.
According to the Federico Wattenberg Vaccine Study Center (CEVFW) at the University of Valladolid, which has studied the site for decades, the ditch has caused "significant damage" in the Pintia Archaeological Zone. The ditch, which was dug by farmers on their land, measures about one and a half feet wide and four and a half feet deep—equivalent to about 42,000 cubic feet of excavated soil. The volume of this excavated material exceeds the amount that archaeologists have managed to remove from the site during years of research, said CEVFW.
The remnants inside the trench have been “totally destroyed,” said archaeologist and CEVFW director Carlos Sanz to EFE. Sanz went to inspect the site last Friday, as he usually does during the rainy season, only to find two people working together to dig the trench.
"Sanz said that the damage that occurred to the \u201coldest and richest\u201d part of the site is \u201cimpossible\u201d to restore. The archaeologist told the Spanish news outlet El Pa\u00eds that this area is the most densely populated part of the settlement and may be the place of its origin."
"Source : Newsweek"
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