Cancho Roano

The building appears to have been ritually burned and sealed in rammed earth in a manner similar to Etruscan.

[1][2] The hypothesis is supported by the presence of looms in two of the chambers, evoking the weavers of the goddess Asherah that worked as prostitutes in the ancient Temple of Jerusalem.

[3] Similar rites would have been identified on the iconography of other Phoenician sites in Hispania, like Gadir, Castulo and La Quéjola (Albacete).

Freund argued that a stele found at Cancho Roano displayed an image with concentric circles that matches Plato's description of Atlantis.

[6] Nonetheless, Freund's theories have been widely dismissed in academic circles, and the symbol is not much more than a typical warrior shield engraved in the Southwestern Stelae from the Iberian Peninsula, of which there are many examples.