The exhibition, featuring more than 200 items that depict the everyday life as well as the spiritual spheres of the ancient, advanced civilisation that lived in what today is Catalonia, is part of the ArCAFE project dedicated to three Iron Age cultures existing in the Mediterranean in the 1st century B.C. - the Iberians from the northeast of the Iberian peninsula, the Gauls from the south of France, and the Japodes in Croatia, with the latter having been presented at an exhibition staged by the Zagreb Archeological Museum in France and Catalonia in 2014.
The Zagreb show describes the key aspects of the Iberian culture, their territorial and political structure, warfare, language and script, technology, and everyday customs. It also brings new insights into the cult of decapitation, based on discoveries dating back to the 3rd century B.C., which have enabled 3D reconstructions of the faces of Iberian warriors.
The exhibition was presented by Gabriel de Prado Cordero of the Archeological Museum of Catalonia, head of the Ullastret locality, and Jean Pierre Girard, the French representative of the project.
The exhibition at the Zagreb Archeological Museum will last until August 16.