First millennium CE literary texts describe the peoples of the western Pyrenees as inferior & 'other' than Rome & Christianity. Asier Aguirresarobe argues in Social Science History that this narrative of alterity has influenced the development of Basque identity. OA https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.8
Hidden gold earring reveals forgotten episode of Carthage-Rome war
“The jewelry piece was discovered inside a ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees. The building is believed to have been part of a devastating fire that burned the settlement to the ground.
The destruction was dated around the end of the third century BCE, the moment where the Pyrenees were involved in the Second Punic War and the passage of Hannibal’s troops,”