Editing Tartessos (section)

== Possible identification as "Tarshish" or "Atlantis" ==
Since the classicists of the early twentieth century, biblical archaeologists often identify the place-name [[Tarshish]] in the [[Hebrew Bible]] with Tartessos, although others connect Tarshish to [[Tarsus (city)|Tarsus]] in Anatolia or other places as far as India. Tarshish, like Tartessos, is associated with extensive mineral wealth ([[Iberian Pyrite Belt]]).

In 1922, [[Adolf Schulten]] said Tartessos was the Western, and wholly European, source of the legend of [[Atlantis]].<ref>Schulten, A. (1923). ''Ein Beitrage zur ältestens Geschichte des Westens'' (Hamburg 1922). An amused reviewer for ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' ('''43'''. 2, p. 206) said "we are quite willing to add it to the long list of possible origins for the Atlantis legend" and "our hearts burn within us to think of the Tartessian literature six thousand years old".</ref>

In 2011 a team led by Richard Freund said it had found strong evidence for the location in [[Doñana National Park]] based on underground and underwater surveys and the interpretation of the archaeological site [[Cancho Roano]]<ref name="National Geographic">{{cite web|url=http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/finding-atlantis-4982/Overview|title=Finding Atlantis|publisher=National Geographic Channel|access-date=2 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707180542/http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/finding-atlantis-4982/Overview|archive-date=7 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> as "memorial cities" rebuilt in the image of Atlantis.
<ref>Canadians part of search for fabled city of Atlantis. In: ''Montreal Gazette'', 3/13/11 [https://montrealgazette.com/technology/Canadians+part+search+fabled+city+Atlantis/4435954/story.html]{{dead link|date=April 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Spanish scientists said Freund was sensationalising their work. The anthropologist Juan Villarías-Robles, who works with the [[Spanish National Research Council]], said "Richard Freund was a newcomer to our project and appeared to be involved in his own very controversial issue concerning King Solomon's search for ivory and gold in Tartessos, the well-documented settlement in the [[Doñana National Park|Doñana]] area established in the first millennium BC" and described his claims as 'fanciful'.<ref>{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Edward|title=Lost city of Atlantis 'buried in Spanish wetlands'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html|access-date=18 March 2011|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|location=London|date=14 March 2011}}</ref>