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Sunday, May 8, 2011

How To Get Rid Of A Dry Mouth

The exhibition "Alexander the Great: the meeting with the East" receives over 162,000 visitors

The exhibition "Alexander the Great . Meeting with East "closed its doors on May 3 after being open five months, from December 3, 2010, after receiving 162,559 visitors, according to the regional government who had access to Servimedia.

The sample was made by the Community of Madrid and Canal de Isabel II, in cooperation with the Foundation Curt - Reiss Engelhorn for Museums - Engelhorn and the German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department.

According to the same data up to 40 prestigious national and international museums gave the more than 330 pieces that made up the exhibition which were distributed in ten rooms, following a linear path and coincident with the advance of Alexander the Great on his trip through Asia . In addition, Madrid enjoyed the film in three dimensions, "Alexandria, the dream of Alexander."

Since opening in December, 21,006 people came to visit the sample into groups, creating 843. In addition, 8,406 students of schools and HEIs in the Community of Madrid also enjoyed the great pieces of art Canal.

But also for "Alexander the Great. Meeting with East ", Canal de Isabel II organized three free workshops, puppet shows" The Library of Alexandria ", aimed at younger children between three and six years," Greek genius "to children between 7 and 11 years, and, finally, to all visitors hosted an event to be held in the lobby of Art Channel, consisting of an animation as an introduction to the exhibition. In these activities, involving about 12,000 children.

view of the regional administration, this "new hit Expository Canal de Isabel II reinforces the commitment of the Community of Madrid Madrid bring all a culture of quality, achieving further bring the Community of Madrid and Art Channel, at a museum of national and international reference.

Since its opening in November 2004, the Canal Art Exhibition Centre has hosted eight exhibitions with more than two million visitors since then. These eight samples were "Warriors of Xi'an" (2004), "Pharaoh" (2005), "MC Escher. The Art of the Impossible "(2006)," Roma SPQR "(2007)," Madrid, May 2, 1808-2008. A People, One Nation "(2008)" Star Wars. The Exhibition "Treasures of World Cultures and finished yesterday" Alexander the Great. Meeting with East. "

-SOURCE: Agency Servimedia

Martinez, also a lawyer by profession, made the remarks during a conference organized by the Cervantes Institute which took place today at the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities in Cairo.

Archaeologist regretted that the Egyptian revolution, which began on Jan. 25 and ended with the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on February 11, forced to stop mid-season excavations and expressed his hope your team to resume work at the start of next season in October or November.

"The Egyptian revolution has stopped the project, but I am convinced that there will be no better time to discover the tomb of Cleopatra in Egypt democratic," said the archaeologist, who in 2005 directed the excavations at the site of Taposiris Magna, near Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast. Cleopatra VII (69 BC-30 BC) was the last link of the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for three centuries.

woman of great culture, who knew nine languages, according to Roman historical texts, managed to fascinate first Caesar, who bore him a son, and al general Marco Antonio después, con quien tuvo dos vástagos.

La experta dominicana enseñó imágenes de la evolución de las excavaciones, durante las que descubrió hasta dos kilómetros de túneles subterráneos, varias monedas con la efigie de Cleopatra y fragmentos de estatuas. Junto a Taposiris Magna también encontró un cementerio donde se calcula que yacen un total de 2.000 cuerpos, lo que, según Martínez, es una señal de que en algún lugar cercano se encuentra la tumba de un soberano.

Martínez se declaró fascinada por el personaje de Cleopatra y por la forma in which he died to be a prisoner of the Roman army: "He committed suicide using an asp, an Egyptian cobra, and this is an image that has hypnotized archaeologists, writers and filmmakers throughout history," he said.

archaeologist and lawyer was convinced that the suicide of the Queen "was not an act of desperation" but was "a ritual of deep religious significance carried out in a very strict ceremony," where represent the death adder. On lighter note, Martinez told some anecdotes of the excavations with the snakes as protagonists.

"The galleries were narrow, there was little air, and we found snakes and scorpions," said the expert. Finding workers who would lose was very complicated. " On occasion, the only ones who dared to fall were the Minister of State for Egyptian Antiquities, Zahi Hawas, and herself.

"Mr. Hawass had two serious accidents," she said Martinez, adding that "one of them a 25-ton stone hit him on the head, close one eye and had to travel to the unit to operate, with the risk of losing their sight. "

On another occasion, the crane was Hawas down to the depths of a tunnel was damaged, and the minister was caught in a narrow chimney underground 35 meters deep.

Despite the risks posed by this type of excavation, Martinez was adamant that the goal of the team that is "finding the structures of the temple and discover the mysteries", but admitted to a certain romanticism that never unravel "all the treasures buried in the sands of Egypt."

-SOURCE: EFE

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Friday, May 6, 2011

Funny Acrostic Friday

Dominican archaeologist hopes to find Cleopatra in Egypt democratic

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo aims to become the twenty-first century temple of the great treasures of antiquity with its new headquarters, which is now built alongside Pyramids of Giza and is scheduled to open in 2015.

Located next to the side of the great plateau of Giza, on which rest the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the future Grand Egyptian Museum will be a huge complex of 85,000 square meters that will house 100,000 pieces , an antiques store and a laboratory restoration.

Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawas, today unveiled to the press, along with the team that runs the museum, detailed drawings of the complex and said the goal is for the new center has nothing to envy of giants like the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum or the Metropolitan in New York. For now, only a few laboratories are built antique restoration and a store, and works in the exhibition halls.

The new headquarters will have nothing to do with the current, located in an old building in downtown capital dating back to 1902, and dusty corridors which are stored dozens of sarcophagi and statues to be identified, or labeled in disparate languages \u200b\u200branging from Arabic, English, Italian or Japanese.

The first images of the project to be unveiled today show large rooms with high ceilings and galleries with natural light: "They are designed so that visitors feel they are entering an archaeological site," said one responsible for building the new museum, Maria Ducianti.

Hawas confirmed that the colossal statue Ramses II (1304-1237 BC), which until 2006 stood in the plaza of the same name of Cairo, and is now being restored, will chair the main lobby. Also revealed that in the coming weeks we will study the transfer of large solar boat of Khufu, which is currently shown in a special facility next to the Pyramids, inside the museum.

treasures from the tomb of Tutankhamun (1336-1327 BC), discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, will be the stars of the new facility and will occupy 30 percent of the galleries.

The pharaoh's gold mask a large living room chair, just as they do the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris and the bust of Nefertiti at Berlin's Pergamon, Ducianti said, adding that "the visitor will follow the steps Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun by real-size models. "

to the 100,000 pieces that will add the new museum antiquities displayed in facilities around the world that Egypt hopes to recover gradually. Thus, Hawass announced today an agreement with the Metropolitan in New York to return to Egypt nineteen pieces, and reiterated his intention to retrieve icons of Egyptology as the bust of Nefertiti, as stated in the Berlin Pergamum, or the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.

Despite the many delays that have been building new plants, which initially should have been inaugurated in 2009 and then in 2012, Hawass said he was convinced that the opening will be in March 2015 and justified delayed by efforts to "make a decent museum world."

A whole fanfare, Hawas, this time without the hat appeared to Indiana Jones that characterizes him, explained the details the project before a crowd of local and foreign journalists who endured the heat was relentless today in Cairo.

Accompanied entourage of journalists and staff of the museum, Hawass visited antique restoration laboratories that work for a year on the esplanade of the Pyramids and in which 150 scientists and archaeologists have been restored and 10,000 parts.

This complex of six laboratories will "classify and scientifically study the antiquities from archaeological sites and other museums," the director told Efe Department of Archaeological Science Museum, Mohamed Gamal, within one laboratory.

outside the bustle of photographers, journalists and Personnel Committee, the archaeologists were careful to brush painting vases, ancient statues and sarcophagi that one day rest in the windows of the future Grand Egyptian Museum.

-SOURCE: Agencia EFE

11,500 secondary school students from many parts of the country are participating today in the European Youth Festival XV Greco-Roman Theatre of Mérida

This has been pointed out, told EFE, Professor of Latin in the Secondary School (IES) "Santa Eulalia" Mérida and coordinator of the Festival, Luis Argüello, at the Teatro Romano, shortly before at the opening. According to Arguello, whose Institute organized this cultural activity, which will run until next Friday, Day 6, "the kids come to see the plays, they have been read by their teachers as they are given copies of the works, they know a Roman building, visit Merida and are engaged in the Greco-Roman world, the ancient world and at the origin of our culture and our civilization. "

He added that the participation this year is mainly Extremadura and that this evidence "in Extremadura is doing theater, good theater and Greco-Roman theater, which will continue in this line." In cycle Merida youth represent three works of Plautus, two of Aristophanes of Sophocles and Euripides other.

The inaugural show was "Antigone" by Sophocles, and was performed by the theater group of IES Santa Eulalia, a work which, according to Argüello, represents "the fidelity to convictions deeper than the protagonist. This afternoon the School of Dramatic Art in Malaga represent "the passion and jealousy" of "Medea" by Euripides.

"Son-Argüello-milestones as flagship in the universal drama is a curious fact that this Festival opens with Antigone to Like the Summer Festival, which opens with three Antigone, as the stones of the Roman Theatre will be four. "He added that the classical texts have been respected" scrupulously "but there are innovative touch as" the singing and dancing, "which has been merged with" Medea. "

morning I offer a work of Aristophanes," La Paz ", in which the actors break down the myth of" if you want peace, prepare for war "as well as a work of Plautus cacereño represented by the group" Cambaluz-University "," The Persian ".

Among

other, other planned activities are the performance of the group Teansari "IES Miguel de Manara" San José de la Rinconada (Sevilla), with the play "The Birds" by Aristophanes, and the theater group IES Virgen de Gracia "Olive de la Frontera (Badajoz), which will take the stage," Miles Gloriosus "by Plautus.

The festival will close at the shows "The beauty of Babel" that will represent the college, "Giner de los Ríos" of Merida, and "Host" of the group "In Albis Theater" IES "Source New "Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla).

The festival also offers a program of alternative leisure activities called "Ludotium", which will provide the "lighter side" of the event with workshops and balloon twisting percussion, among others. For its part, the general director of Education Policy, Felipe Gomez, "it is clear that a successful claim the Greco-Roman culture, the contributions of Greek and Roman world" and stressed "the importance" of this festival, so the Junta de Extremadura the "spoils".

-SOURCE: EFE

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Treatment For Brazilian Wax Burn

The Egyptian Museum Pyramids moves to recover

is sculpted in painted quartzite and measures thirteen meters high and almost six feet wide

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the largest statue of the pharaoh found so far

Amenhotep III in Luxor city, some 700 kilometers south of Cairo, reported the Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawas

The statue was found in excavations in the area of \u200b\u200b Qurnah, where the temple of Amehotep III (1390-1352 BC), on the west bank of the River Nile in Luxor, the minister said in a statement released by his office. The Colossus, which is carved in quartzite painted, measuring thirteen meters high and almost six feet wide , consists of seven large pieces, accurately Hawas in the note.

The statue was one of the two flanking the north entrance of the temple of Amehotep III

and probably collapsed during the earthquake that hit Egypt in the year 27 a. C. Currently performs the cleaning and restoration of the seven fragments to re-place the Colossus in its original place, but the head continues buried in the sand, so that experts continue to find the excavation, said the minister.

Hawas not rule out the possibility that it found the second statue of Amenhotep III during the current season of archaeological work in the area. This piece was first discovered in 1928 by an Egyptian archaeologist and a German, but was forgotten in an agricultural area until it was covered by earth.

For its part, the supervisor of the excavations, the archaeologist Abdel Gafar Wagdi,

said experts also found a statue of the Goddess of Healing, Sekhmet , Made of black granite of 185 centimeters long and 74 wide. The sculpture was found north of the temple of Amenhotep III, who built many statues of Sekhmet, after the sick in the last days of his life, recalled Wagdi.

Amenhotep III, one of the most important pharaohs of the XVIII dynasty, was

father of King Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's grandfather

-SOURCE:

News Agency EFE

These codices and fragments scattered in libraries around the world. Most of them belong to his magnum opus,

'Metamorphoses'

Experts from the University of Huelva (UHU), belonging to Nicolaus Heinsus research group has discovered 71 new manuscripts

Latin poet Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) spread across different libraries around the world. Most of them belong to his magnum opus,

Metamorphoses.

These codices
or fragments, "whose existence was unknown," explained the Professor of Latin Philology at the UHU, Luis Rivero, and collect different versions and interpretations of this work from antiquity to modern times.

Thanks to this research work is done to collect almost all the manuscripts and critical editions of Ovid there, especially

Metamorphoses. So, to those already known, have been able to add more than 71 manuscrutos, among which the 'Dertusensis 134', "the oldest of the English manuscript dating from the late twelfth century

" said Rivero.

These new manuscripts, together with the 467 already known, expand the catalog to the 538. "Now we are a

reference for researchers worldwide in the text of Ovid," said the professor of Latin philology.

From all the source documents, project members now undertake critical commentary textual Ovid's Metamorphoses within the project of excellence 'Critical edition of The Metamorphoses of Ovid and retail operations ', funded by the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science with almost 158,000 euros, whose work will be finished by 2013.
"It's an ambitious goal for the claim to include in her comments, issues and variants of

The metamorphosis from its beginnings until today," argues Luis Rivero. The ultimate objective therefore is to light the critical edition of Metamorphoses more complete and informed of how many have done so far.

The Ovidian poem, which brings in 15 books a collection of stories about classical mythology

, has become one of the most popular creations of Roman literature. Well known to medieval writers and humanists, remains influential in contemporary literature, as is clear from different studies of Publius Ovidius Naso.

One of the oldest issues was held in 1471 in Rome by John Andreas. "However, today was just one hundred manuscripts read," says the researcher. "The recent comments of Professor S. Myers, the book XIV of Metamorphoses, in 2009, is mastered to perfection throughout the literature

the past 50 years but has not been read not a single manuscript and not one of the comments prior to 1950, "says Antonio Ramirez de Verger, another group of researchers from Nicolaus Heinsius.

For a detailed study of the 15 books that constitute the work

Metamorphoses "has organized the work so that each researcher will study one of them, with their respective editions throughout the centuries," says Ramírez de Verger. It is a rigorous examination of a total of

12,000 verses in more than 500 versions that correspond to each of the manuscripts and critical editions made from antiquity to the modern era.

-SOURCE: Andrés Marín

Cejudo has long been seen in the Museum of Zaragoza

, without revealing the source, a design that places it among the existing streets of captain Portolés, Marceliano Isabal, Bilbao, Albareda and Avenida César Augusto. Arguably, in light of the drawing, the geometric center of the amphitheater would coincide with the current hotel Palafox. But occupy a much larger space.

The issue of historic importance, has remained muted because the person who prepared the plan and sent it to the museum wants to remain anonymous, so the drawing reflects the remains that allegedly appeared in the latest urban intervention in the area and if they were destruidos, han pasado ya casi cuarenta años. ¿Quién envió el documento? Desde el Museo de Zaragoza se guarda silencio, se insiste en que la información es confidencial, pero facilitan el plano que acompaña estas líneas, en el que se ve con precisión el supuesto trazado del edificio.

«Lo explicaremos todo -ha asegurado a HERALDO el director del centro,

Miguel Beltrán
- en un artículo que se publicará en la próxima edición del Boletín del Museo de Zaragoza». El artículo lo firmará junto a

Juan Paz

, pero no saldrá de imprenta hasta después del verano. Aunque el hermetismo en torno al asunto is total, since the museum lends credibility few days ago, Miguel Beltran had the plane in an academic context, the 'testimonia Urbis', a seminar of the Open University in Tudela.

The alleged remains of

Caesaraugusta amphitheater.

Zaragoza Urbana

In the business group which includes the hotel Palafox, long known as the plane not only exposed at the Museum of Zaragoza, which depends on the Government of Aragon, but also Forum of municipal ownership.

"is a theory of some archaeologists, but it does not seem grounded in hard data, the agency sources said. When the museum announced this level we ask for information to the architects who built the hotel and sought technical reports. And we find that what were once found the remains of a modern headquarters, the convent of the Carmen and an Arab tank. But nothing major. " "From Roman ruins, nothing"

García and José de Yarza Nordmark

not opened until 1982.

"From Roman ruins, nothing at all. That is a fantasy that has been playing in Zaragoza years, "says José de Yarza Nordmark. Appeared remains of the barracks and some, of limited scope, the convent before it. But nothing more. "

Most experts consulted by the Herald did not want to comment on this matter, pending the said scientific paper. To

Guillermo Fatás

, "was missing the Roman Amphitheater. In a city the size of the Roman Zaragoza, veterans of three legions that made their home, it is logical that they have been. And surely great. " The building had to be built in the first century of our era. According to the plan of the Museum of Zaragoza, had about 100 meters diameter, which is not much when compared with those of Rome (187), Italic (174), Cordoba (178) and Merida (126). According Manuel Martín-Bueno, Zaragoza not only had an amphitheater, also had a circus. "It was equipment that distinguished the cities of other settlements. But used less than what is believed. "

The issue has again been a rumor that circulated today when he began working in Fleta

, close to the area. But the archaeologist who led the excavation disproves appeared yet again Roman remains. "We found the foundations of a Moorish tower possible, but no more," says Francisco Javier Gutierrez. No other Roman. "

-SOURCE:

Mariano Garcia

agents discovered an underground tunnel with a crane to dig the 58 tons of filth

of Pozzuoli, macro town of 80,000 people leaning to Naples, has discovered a Roman mausoleum buried under the rubble of an illegal landfill. "I am a great scholar and lover of ancient art: I still can not believe what I saw," he exclaims. What he saw and left him without words is a room of about 15 square meters, with loops and arches, decorated with stucco and traces of color on the walls. According to the provincial Superintendent is a monument built in the II century AD. Right in the Neapolitan style, the commander has all richly detailed and granting several blows theatrical effect. Without haste and without pause.

"There are things that can happen only in Italy. For better and bad. " Michele Ciarlo's voice gets excited on the phone. The Commander of the Guardia di Finanza

"The area is a field where today is forbidden to build because we know who was passing by an old road, the road Domiziana, which led to Rome, and the bow is still perfectly preserved Felice Vecchio." Archaeologists estimate that the citizens of ancient Rome used build tombs for their dead along the way, to move in the journey to another world. The neighbors of the current Pozzuoli know that under your feet doze Roman remains, probably of great value, although currently there excavations. So some have organized themselves. This is the case of 64 years old lady, under the clearing of 1,700 square meters has, found, looted and hidden, the mausoleum rescued today by Ciarlo and his men. The area is now seized and the lady has been reported.

Police at the site of the discovery

"We went to control the area. We found a pile of old tires, dangerous waste that can not be dumped just like that. And next door was a large country house half destroyed. But you could tell he had been collapsed on purpose. Its bricks (58 tons) were used to hide even more underground access to the monument. " Removing the debris, Major found an opening and a hideout ten feet deep down to the local permitting. "Until there was a wooden ladder. I was immediately clear that there had been the tombaroli

[antique thieves] had many stucco figurines been removed and the room was empty. " Superintendent of Pozzuoli
now hopes that this mausoleum was built according to architectural rules of the time, ie with three bedrooms. If - as argued by the superintendent - the local ' saved 'today is the court, missing two rooms that carry light. "Having regard to the antipasto, if we arrived before the tombaroli, will be precious. A real discovery, "said Ciarlo.

-SOURCE:

Lucia Magi