As a high school student visiting Spain, many things caught my eye—Costa del Sol, La Rambla, the gigantic statues of bulls and the Hard Rock Cafe. (What can I say? I was a teenage tourist.) But there ...

In 25 B.C.E., Romans founded a colony called Augusta Emerita in what is now Mérida, Spain. Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida Archaeologists working at the site of an ancient Roman bath ...