The walls of Son Catlar
Son Catlar is notable as the only prehistoric town still completely surrounded by a wall. 
It was described forty-seven years ago by Frederick Chamberlin in his book The Balearics and their Peoples as one of the most thrilling places on the island. Much of it still remains unexplored. It can be reached with a little effort from the country road leading from Ciudadela to Cala Turqueta, turning right at the fork to Son Saura, and stopping at the farm of Son Catlar.
Its massive defensive wall runs for 900m and encloses an area with a diameter of 160m. The state of preservation of the wall varies, but one section of it runs straight for 200m, and several former gateways can be detected. The Romans reoccupied the site later and added defensive turrets. Hidden by undergrowth in the centre of the enclosure is a sanctuary with a taula, with capstone fallen and broken. A large talayot has been built at each end, neither apparently with an opening, but one with an unusual cupola. Several impressive hypostyle courts have been built within the thickness of the massive surrounding walls, and the remains of many ordinary circular dwellings can be seen, many with vestiges of a hearth.
 

A pocket  god
Many more ancient townships await excavation. An epoch-making discovery of a bronze figure of the Egyptian god Imhotep was made while clearing the sanctuary at Torre d'en Gaumes in 1974. Provisionally dated 650-550 BC, it is the first-ever Egyptian find in the Western Mediterranean.
Imhotep was architect, priest, physician and chief minister to the pharaoh of the Third Dynasty (2778-2723 BC); to whose alround achievements posterity added others, finally deifying him. The delicately worked figure shows him in a seated position, reading a papyrus on his knees. On his ovoid head (an art style that helped in dating) he wears a skull-cap; his other dress is a breastplate with collar, knee-length striped skirt, over-apron, and sandals.
The statue could have been brought to the island by one of the early migrant exiles from the East. It is only 6in high, a pocket-sized god suitable for travelling.