Archaeologists  have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest map in Western Europe, in a Spanish cave steeped in legend.The complex etchings were engraved on a hand-sized rock 13,660 years ago, probably by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers.A team led by Pilar Utrilla from the University of Zaragoza in Spain, discovered the rock in 1994 but it has taken them 15 years to disentangle the mess of etched lines.They discovered the sandstone rock in the cave of Abauntz Lamizulo, which was traditionally thought to be the home of the ‘lamias’ or mythological bird-footed nymphs.

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