Late antiquity hall

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Introduction
The area of Manacor between 5th and 8th centuries
The basilicas of Manacor
The baptisteries of Manacor
Dwellings and diet
Life and death
The funerary world

The Son Peretó site was discovered by Joan Aguiló in 1912. It consists of a Paleochristian basilica and its baptistery, an important collection of mosaics, and numerous archaeological materials, such as glass lamps, ceramics and amphorae. The  Manacor History Museum was created as a result of this discovery.

Around 1,600 years ago, at the beginning of the 5th century, the population of Majorca had fully incorporated Roman language and culture into their way of life: they spoke Latin, and worshipped Roman gods. Politically, the Balearic Islands were a province of the Roman Empire. However, this changed in 455 AD, when the Vandal kingdom of North Africa conquered the islands and incorporated them into the new African state, ending six centuries of Roman rule.

Between 533 and 534, the islands were conquered again, this time by the Byzantine Empire, the most powerful Mediterranean state of the time. These were years of important changes caused, above all, by the collapse of the Roman Empire.

One hundred years later, a new Islamic power emerged throughout much of the Mediterranean. Although the first documented invasion of the Balearic Islands by Muslims dates back to the year 707, the islands were definitively conquered between the years 902 and 903.

The period between the Vandal conquest in 455 and the Muslim invasion in 902 is known as Late Antiquity.

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Voice files

Introduction
The area of Manacor between 5th and 8th centuries
The basilicas of Manacor
The baptisteries of Manacor
Dwellings and diet
Life and death
The funerary world