New findings rewrite the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, the largest military confrontation of the Iberian Middle Ages. Two excavation campaigns and a historiographic review suggest that the conflict, despite the victory of the Christians over the Muslims, did not change the correlation of forces between the two sides or the course of the war.

Archaeological excavations have also been carried out in the Castro Ferral fortification, a key piece in the articulation of the conflict. In fact, it was the only campaign on Hispanic soil that was declared a crusade.