The Army’s mineral collection wins over the British Museum

It is a fragment of jade, one more mineral among hundreds exhibited in the Science and Technology Room of the Artillery Academy of Segovia. But not only its size far exceeds many of the stones that are exhibited there in small…

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About the author
Monica Arrizabalaga

Editor specialized in archeology and heritage. Author of ‘Spain, the imagined history’ (Espasa) and co-author, together with Federico Ayala, of ‘La Gaceta Olvidada’ (Libros.com).