Recent analysis revealed that the spindle whorl was etched with a symbol from the Celtiberian alphabet ... existed in ...

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

In his encyclopedic GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military ...

The inscribed spindle whorl, dating to the 1st century BC, features one of the oldest examples of writing in northern Iberia, using the Celtiberian ... Iberia prior to the Roman arrival.