Bronze age burial site in Spain suggests women were among rulers

Researchers in Murcia find exquisite objects at women's graves later used as sites for elite warrior burials

A burial site found in Spain - described by archaeologists as one of the most lavish bronze age graves discovered to date in Europe - has sparked speculation that women may have been among the rulers of a highly stratified society that flourished on the Iberian peninsula until 1550BC.

Since 2013, a team of more than a dozen researchers have been investigating the site of La Almoloya in the southern Spanish region of Murcia.