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TIL of the lost civilization of Tartessos in modern Spain, who's language is unclassified. The location is unknown but is thought to have been near a giant estuary that turned into the Guadalquivir Marshes. Some to speculate Tartessos to be the biblical Tarshish or even Atlantis.

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