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Date: May 10 19:54 2013

RE: Carmona	Permalink

La Tumba del Elefante de Carmona pudo ser un templo al dios Mitra La llamada Tumba del Elefante de la necrópolis romana de Carmona (Sevilla) no tuvo siempre una función funeraria. La estructura original del edificio y una ventana por la que el sol entra de forma directa en los equinoccios parecen indicar que fue un templo del mitraísmo, una religión no oficial en el Imperio Romano. La posición de Tauro y Escorpio en los equinoccios refuerza la hipótesis. Read more __________________

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Date: May 10 19:53 2013

Tomb of the Elephant	Permalink

The Roman necropolis, the largest cemetery in Carmo, was located along the shoulders of the Via Augusta going towards Hispalis (Seville). It consists of ancient Tartessian funerary monuments and Roman tombs, which all shared one trait: the bodies of the dead were buried in a bent position, always with their heads facing westward. Cremation became common at the end of the 1st century. The "Tomb of the Elephant" is a large and roughly square enclosure (10.6 by 12.5 metres) with three dining rooms and a kitchen cut deep into the living rock. Read more __________________

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Date: May 10 19:52 2013

Carmona	Permalink

The history of Carmona begins at one of the oldest urban sites in Europe, with nearly five thousand years of continuous occupation on a plateau rising above the Vega (plain) of the River Carbones in Andalusia, Spain. The city of Carmona lies thirty kilometres from Seville on the highest elevation of the sloping terrain of the Los Alcores escarpment, about 250 metres above sea level. Read more __________________

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