Most of the important museum exhibits
of Almuñécar are
housed in the "Cueva de Siete Palacios" which translates as the cave of
the seven palaces. Except that it is not a cave, rather it is the
largest remnant of a Roman palace yet
found in Almuñécar and it survived for hundreds of years as 'social housing'
until the 'cave dwellers' were re-housed in the 1970's. Only
then did its true origins become apparent. These are mainly Roman
exibits:
But pride of place goes to this
alabaster cremation urn below of the Egyptian Pharaoh Apofis
I circa 1500 BC. .
All these Egyptian cremation urns had been re-used, together with many other objects, as grave goods with the Phoenician burials.
Much more remains to be discovered.
Photographs © 2006 by Noel Walley
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