Meloussa (Minorca), island in front of
the Iberians
(Hecateo, toward 500 B.C., in Europe)
Of the islands that are in front of Iberia, the two Pitiüses
and the two Gimnesias
(that also call "Balearides") are located in front of the
coast between Tarraco and the Sucro, in which Sagunto is.
(Strabo, 65 B.C. - 20 A.D., in Geography of
Iberia)
With these words, the first ones that we have about the knowledge of the existence and the situation of the island, would finish the Prehistory of Minorca and its History would properly begin.
And with the same ones we open this web dedicated to the sites and monuments of both until the Catalan conquest.
And it is so because, although the traditional definition of "History" implies the existence of a written medium, the texts that we have to explain the first times of the historical becoming of the smaller of the Balearic Islands, until the moment of the "Reconquest", are so scarce, and almost always so brief that only the monuments and other conserved remains of that time allow to make us an idea of what it was and what it happened, placing therefore these at the same level that those previous to the testimonies that we have transcribed, which necessarily leads to consider all of them as different parts of oneself group, beyond the anecdote of the writing of these few lines.
You are, so then, in front the door of more than three millennia of individual and collective, daily or exceptional, original, and unique, or common with those of other peoples of the Mediterranean histories.
You don't wait more, already enter and recognize you in one or another testimony of some fact that caused a turn in a line of events to take us, everybody, until the present. Everyone is invited. Everyone, probably, will have something to see.
Welcome to the one that aspires to become the biggest and better web dedicated to a concrete archaeological environment, after having been one of the pioneers among those dedicated to this island daughter of the sea, the wind and the stone.
The correct visualization of the present work demands a screen resolution of 800x600 and the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, or later, with the Java Virtual Machine activated -if you have installed the version 6.0 or Windows XP, you should download it from Internet (make a click here) and install it
You can also do it with the Netscape Navigator 7.0 , but the results won't be neither by a long shot so perfect.
I will thank any observation directed to put on the alert of any type of deficiency detected in this web when using these navigators. An alert that you can notify us by means of the contact e-mail arqueologia@menorcaweb.net, the same one that can be employed to make any comment, correction or petition of information about the web. Thank you.
