Conference dedicated to one of the most unknown parts of archaeology, motherhood, care and childhood at the Museu de Menorca. By one of the most relevant experts, Patxuka de Miguel Ibáñez, osteoarchaeologist and head of the Hospital Mare de Déu dels Lliris in Alcoi.

We are all familiar with the Naveta des Tudons, but very close by there is also a small, little-known necropolis. Excursion organised by the Museu de Menorca, led by archaeologist Montserrat Anglada.

Using the children's funerary urns found next to the Cornia Nou talayot, the Museu de Menorca talks about childhood, care, mourning, memory and the treatment of perinatal and infant death in the Talayotic culture.

On November 3 in Torrellafuda, the fifth activity of Becatalaiotica 2024 will take place: EVERYTHING LIVED IS IRRECUPERABLE, an artistic installation by Alícia Carmo (1999, Madrid).

During the month of October, the Fundació Foment del Turisme de Menorca offers the possibility of taking a guided tour of the Torre d'en Galmés settlement free of charge.

Visit the Talayotic settlement of Son Olives, which preserves one of the most unknown taula sanctuaries, ending with a tasting of Menorcan products and a short history of cheese in Menorca. Organised by the Museu de Menorca.

On October 27 in Trepucó will take place the fourth activity of Becatalaiotica 2024: HUELLAS, physical theatre, by Claudia Nieva (2022, Terrassa, Barcelona).

During the month of October, the Fundació Foment del Turisme de Menorca offers the possibility of taking a guided tour of the Torre d'en Galmés settlement free of charge.

The third Becatalaiotica 2024 activity will take place on October 20 in Torre d'en Galmés: FOOTPRINT AND SONG: AVIAN DANCE, a contemporary dance performance by Neus Montané (2000, Barcelona).

Egyptology arouses fascination in our society. In Menorca there is also a widespread curiosity for this period of history, partly related to its own prehistoric culture, the Talayotic, through the discovery, in 1974, of the statuette of the Egyptian god Imhotep in the taula enclosure of Torre d'en Galmés.  

Lecture by Irene Riudavets at the Museu de Menorca on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Egyptian figurine of Imhotep in the taula sanctuary of Torre d'en Galmés.

The second Becatalaiotica 2024 activity will take place on October 12 in Torralba d'en Salort: ‘Untitled', audiovisual projection and discussion by Maria Paz Serra (1995, Barcelona).

This morning, November 15, the preliminary project for the Talayotic Menorca Interpretation Centre was presented in the Plaza de la Catedral in Ciutadella, a facility that will be the island's reference point on the World Heritage of Talayotic Menorca. The inauguration date depends on the architectural rehabilitation of the building, the centre could be up and running by November 2026.  

This grant will be used entirely for two excavation, restoration and consolidation projects in two of the publicly owned settlements: Torre d'en Galmés and Son Catlar. The period for carrying out the subsidised activities will be between 1 December 2024 and 31 December 2025.  

Antoni Ferrer, director of the Menorca Talayotic Agency, and the island director of Culture, Tiago Reurer, have travelled to Gran Canaria to attend the monographic workshop ‘Alliance of Cultural Landscapes and Related World Heritage Sites: The involvement of local communities in the management of cultural landscapes’.

The Teatre des Born and the Teatre Principal in Maó were almost full to capacity, and around 250 people followed the concert at the Teatre Principal online, which was broadcast live on the Consell Insular de Menorca's YouTube channel.

This month we interview Menorcan musician and composer Marco Mezquida, who this weekend presents his work Talaiot for the first time in Menorca.

The celebration of the first anniversary of Talayotic Menorca as a Unesco World Heritage Site brought together more than 120 people at Trepucó, where the president of the Consell Insular stressed the importance of preserving and disseminating this heritage through projects such as the future Interpretation Centre.   

The director of the Talayotic Menorca Agency, Antoni Ferrer, represented Talayotic Menorca at the 9th Iberian Meeting of World Heritage Managers, held in the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, Portugal, on 16 and 17 September. 

The celebration events will be spread over different weekends, beginning on September 20 with an institutional event in Trepucó. This will be followed by two concerts by Marco Mezquida on September 28 and 29, and will end with a programme of activities for the whole family on October 5 in Son Catlar and October 6 in Trepucó.

The Becatalaiotica 2024 programme kicks off on September 28 in Talatí de Dalt with a calendar of five events spread over the months of September, October and November. As usual, the different sites of Talayotic Menorca will become open-air stages where the five finalists will present their proposals.

The excavation campaign at Sa Mitja Lluna came to an end on 30 August, marking an important milestone in the archaeological research of this prehistoric mining site. This campaign is the first of the second five-year project led by the ArqueoUIB group in collaboration with the University of Seville.

This month we interview Alex Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Brockport. Since 2020, Alex is the co-director of the Menorca Archaeological Project with Amalia Pérez-Juez, excavating medieval domestic structures at Torre d’en Galmés.

This morning the co-directors of the project, Borja Corral and Carlos de Salort, presented the results of the campaign accompanied by the director of Cultural Affairs, Jaume Reurer, and the director of Torralba, Rafael Durán. 

Mezquida will present his composition "Talaiot" for the first time in Menorca: on September 28 at the Teatre des Born in Ciutadella, and on September 29 at the Teatre Principal de Maó. Tickets will be available at the usual sales channels of each theatre from August 28.  

This grant will be used entirely for two excavation, restoration and consolidation projects in two of the publicly-owned settlements: Torre d'en Galmés and Son Catlar. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs has approved the processing of a 461,000-euro subsidy to the Consell Insular de Menorca.

In their latest study, published in the prestigious journal Zephyrus, archaeologists Cristina Bravo, Irene Riudavets and Antoni Ferrer reveal new findings in the taula enclosure of the Talayotic settlement of Sa Cudia Cremada, in Maó.