To the west of Comares and overlooking the nearby village of Los Ventorros, Mazmullar rises out of the Solano Valley like a scene from "The Land That Time Forgot". The rock plateau is littered with the remnants of occupations by ancient civilisations including the Moors and Romans.

The land has been worked for centuries by locals but it wasn't until 1907 that an uprooted tree revealed artifacts from Arab times including storage jars, oil lamps and other receptacles. The discovery prompted an archaelogical investigation the following year by Rodrigo Amador de los Rios who discovered graves, silos, remains of wine and olive presses, oil and water depositos (storage tanks), household pots, jars and an impressive underground aljibe (rainwater storage tank) with an Arabic inscription over one of its arches. The alijbe was recognised as a rarity because of its unusual design and the inscription.

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