[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

There is no reason to think Tartessos was in Iberia anyway, although decades have been spent looking for something to label as "Tartessian", and the occasional find (which is remarkable for its resemblance to artifacts from places like Italy, Greece, Carthage, or Phoenicia) hasn't contributed to the solution to a problem which is a modern invention.

I'll be convinced when someone discovers an authentic "welcome to Tartessos" inscription outside the ruin of some pre-Roman town.

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[Fred Nerks]

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tartessos.html

The Myth Of Tartessos.
The Greeks were fascinated by the notion of a mythical and fabulously wealthy kingdom in the far west beyond the Pillars of Hercules. It was a rich emporium of valuable and precious metals and the luxurious lives led by its inhabitants linked it in their minds to the legends of Atlantis and Hesperides, the Isles of the Blessed, which were located in the same direction and were maybe even in the same place. They called it Tartessos...

Atlantis?