Surviving in the Muslim quarter: A hundred skeletons shed new light on a medieval minority in Spain

In 2019, work to expand a school in Tudela, a town in the northern Spanish region of Navarra, led to the discovery of a medieval cemetery. Because construction was halted and archaeologists were called in, researchers were able to document more than 400 graves. The position of the bodies and the direction of the faces revealed that the site was one of the largest Muslim burial grounds found in Christian-ruled Spain, dating from the 11th to the 14th centuries.

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