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Carolina López-Ruiz's Phoenician Dig Featured in Spanish Press
September 20, 2026
Jeff Cumonow, at one of the sections that descends to the oldest levels. (Migue Fernández)
Carolina López-Ruiz, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies in the Divinity School, was featured this month in Sur in English, Málaga’s English-language paper, for her work co-leading the University of Chicago’s excavation at the Phoenician site of Cerro del Villar. Nearly fifty archaeologists, students, and volunteers spent the season in the settlement’s Sector 13, uncovering a large multipurpose building dating to the eighth century BC.
López-Ruiz, who proposed the University of Chicago’s involvement in the dig five years ago, told the paper the team chose the site because of its ties to earlier excavations led by archaeologist María Eugenia Aubet.
Read the full story in Sur in English.