You wrote your names down. You faced east. You kept the Law.
The Eliossana Heritage Trust exists to keep a record. For twenty-six centuries, a Hebrew presence across the Mediterranean and the Iberian peninsula left evidence in stone, in soil, and in text — evidence that was often overlooked or asked to answer a higher standard of proof than any other people's. Our task is to correct that the only way it can be corrected: by documenting what the ground and the record actually show, plainly, and by naming what remains uncertain just as plainly.
Our founding site is the medieval necropolis of Lucena, Spain — ancient Eliossana — where hundreds of graves lie facing east, kept according to the law by people who wrote their own names down rather than let them be erased. We hold that record in trust for their memory, and for anyone who wants to read it honestly.
A ledger, not a manifesto. That not one name be cut off.
Memory outlives every ruin.
Fundación Cerro del Hacho
Our Spanish operational affiliate, established to steward the Lucena site on the ground. Full details on its role, its programs, and how to take part are coming soon.
Transparency
Every claim we publish carries its source. If we can't document it, we say so plainly.
The Record
Each site in the Tarshish Atlas is documented — what the evidence shows, and what remains uncertain.
Teaching Plainly
We teach the evidence as it stands, not as we wish it stood. Where the record is thin, we say so.
Open to All
What we find, we publish. The record belongs to anyone who wants to read it.