Until this recent investigation, archaeologists believed the ruins at the 10-acre expanse near the town of Artieda belonged to separate archaeological sites.
published in Spanish, the name of the city is unknown. They named it “El Forau de la Tuta,” describing it as “A Hitherto Unknown Roman Imperial City on the Southern Slopes of the Pyrenees.”the ruins at the 10-acre expanse near the town of Artieda belonged to separate archaeological sites. Now they argue that it was all one interconnected city.
states that based on artifacts from the site and from various public and private collections, and findings among the ruins, they determined it was an area “of urban character — the city’s name is currently unknown — and it developed during the [Roman] imperial period. Later, the same site took on another iteration as a rural habitat during the Visigoth and early Andalusian periods.