The location of the ancient city of Tartess, founded more than a thousand years before our era—and, according to an ancient tradition, located somewhere in the south or the southwest of modern Spain—has still not been established with certainty.
Some say the Carthaginians destroyed it. And certain scholars claim that the legendary Atlantis, about which so many idle speculations exist, is in fact Tartess!
And didn’t this half-mythical city perish as a result of ancient people’s experiments with nuclear energy?
Wait—don’t start snorting in outrage! Our ancestors were far more educated than we might assume…