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Roman baths emerge from sand dunes of southern Spain 1 minute read
By Isabel Laguna
Cádiz, Spain, May 17 (EFE).- Extraordinarily well-preserved Roman baths dating back 2,000 years have emerged from the sand dunes of the emblematic Trafalgar Cape in southwest Spain.
The four-meter tall structure surprised archaeologists at the University of Cádiz as well as locals, who for years have walked across the dunes oblivious to the relic of history lurking below the sand.
“It is a structure that has an exceptional state of conservation for the Iberian Peninsula and the western Mediterranean in general,” Darío Bernal, a professor of archaeology at the University of Cádiz, tells Efe.