11,500 young classical culture at the Teatro Romano Merida
historical Nebula hangs over the civilization of Tarshish may be clarified by the conference organized by the Universidad de Huelva (UHU), which meet in one of the cities where these people settled in the major international experts on the subject.
The congress, the first of its kind to be held on this civilization based in the southwestern peninsular between the eighth and sixth centuries BC,
meet between 14 and December 17 
about thirty teachers from the United States, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Italy, Egypt and Spain in order to shed light on Tartesos and place it in its historical context, according to the director ELMUNDO.es advance of the conclave, Juan Campos, professor of Archaeology at the UHU.
The academic appointment has promoted the editor Manuel Pimentel (Almuzara), who calls "civic duty and social" better explain Tarshish, a town that was "a source of knowledge and issuer of wealth." Pimentel justified the conclusion of the conference in Huelva
this being a city "with obvious attributes tartésicos and host the moral capital of this civilization. "
This is precisely one of the issues to be discussed at the conference, since it is an issue that has caused much controversy among scholars." We do not know what was the Tartesos capital, perhaps by chance one day lead us to it, what is clear is that Huelva was one of their major cities, "says Juan Campos, who noted that some researchers have come to situate
" even in Bilbao "
.
This first international conference on Tartesos entitled 'The metal emporium', as this is one of the main event: the exploitation of the iconic
northern mines
provinces of Huelva and Sevilla and marketing of mineral wealth that led to Tarshish to be "the first Western legal civilization," in Campos words. The conclave will seek to vindicate Tartesos in the collective imagination throughout history, humanity and the historical and archaeological relics that abound in the provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cadiz.
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Cejudo
The beneficiary is the employer Diego della Valle, owner of the shoe company Tod's, in exchange for paying the cost of restoration work, 25 million euros, kept for 15 years, extended the exclusive global image Roman monument.
return to cover the 25 million cost of restoration of the amphitheater of the first century, Tod's managed exclusively rents and image rights of Flavio inside and outside Italy, you can put your logo at the entrance and on the scaffolding, and build a "service center" in the protected archeological area of \u200b\u200bthe world.
The agreement was signed on 27 January, and the Government sold it with great ceremony as an act of generous sponsorship by the employer of the shoe entrepreneur. Interestingly, the text was released, and still largely remains a mystery. The UIL union, active in the field of heritage and culture, has submitted a brief to the Rome Public Prosecutor and the Court in which he expressed his doubts about the real scope of the contract and calls for an investigation if there is evidence of crime.
Gianfranco Cerasoli, secretary general of UIL Culture, explained that the agreement was signed at high speed after the official contest was declared void, "and recalls that" will stop for at least 15 years in ministry, and both the state, which the Constitution is responsible for the amphitheater, to freely decide on the use and image of the monument. "
addition, Cerasoli as "the evaluation of the agreement is obviously low, since any economist knows that the transaction will generate at least 200 million euros, because it gives the company during the construction work, the communication plan of the Colosseum and marketing worldwide.
The union says he does not have anything from Tod's. "Della Valle has done its job by closing a business and promotional impact. We are not against private developers but against the state at a low price concessions. "
mixed
A partnership must still be established, and in which the shoe company will be dominant, now take decisions affecting the monument. If someone wants to use the image of the Coliseum to shoot a movie, advertisement or make a political campaign, you must request permission from Tod's. I have had to do and those responsible for Volkswagen, which sought to present in the Roman theater a new model.
Sources of the Italian company has replied to criticism with a simple argument: "A listed company that invests 25 million to restore a monument should explain to shareholders that behavior. It would be absurd Tod's did not have the exclusive during the construction work. "
Tod's owner signed the deal with the curator of the archaeological area of \u200b\u200bRome, the architect Roberto Cecchi, empowered by a special decree of the President of the Government. Cecchi is one of the names that the government used since 2001 to undertake his "revaluation of the cultural heritage." His boss, Mario Resca, former CEO of McDonald's Italy, was appointed personally by Silvio Berlusconi to exploit the monuments and museums with a commercial and private. According to critics, a more populist strategy based on heritage conservation to consider a permanent emergency (thus helping to close contracts finger).
The stated aim is to launch projects with high impact and increase visits. Meanwhile, cuts in public funds Templates are emptied dedicated to maintaining and relaxes the care of artistic and historic assets. In parallel, the Government has been giving the private sector much of the cultural and museum management from the organization of exhibitions at the box office business, a market restricted to a handful of companies that get up to 30% of each ticket sold. Mondadori Electa companies as owned by the Italian head of government, have also obtained concessions for public libraries thirty institutions, including the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
the past two years, that trend appears to have exacerbated the that has caused tensions and resignations among senior cultural. First he went number two in Culture, Salvatore Settis, then his successor, Andrea Carandini, and finally the minister, Sandro Bondi, who has been replaced by the former owner of Agriculture, Giancarlo Galan.
Carandini just correct, and is back in the ministry after the Government has finally agreed to limit spending cuts for this year paid under a one cent increase in the price of gasoline.
Flavio History
- Construction the Colosseum began in 72 by the will of the Emperor Vespasian
. The construction was finished in 80, when Emperor Titus
could inaugurate with 100 consecutive days of games.
- Also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, due to the dynasty of the Flavian emperors
near the center.
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Miguel Mora Europe's largest exhibition to date on the mysterious pre-Hispanic culture
March 20, coinciding with the spring equinox, about 160,000 people went to recharge vital energy for a strenuous climb to the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan (63 meters high). It is a superstitious tradition, abounding many unofficial guides that abound in the archaeological site, the most visited of Mexico (2.5 million admissions in 2010) and certainly one of the most mysterious. The magnificent exhibition that opened yesterday at the Caixa Forum in Barcelona, \u200b\u200band in July Madrid close in his long European tour, is the other side of the coin of the esoteric legend of Teotihuacan.
Without hiding the thousand mysteries still hidden in the city, the exhibition showcases over 400 beautiful pieces of different disciplines so little is known about this civilization, between the II century BC and AD VII , became the great cultural and political center of Mesoamerica.
The truth is that this collective experience of men and women in a city of gods we know neither the name. The Teotihuacan is what put the Aztecs (Mexica) centuries after the city collapsed not known if invasion, internal strife, natural disaster or provoked, and that a terrible fire swept through much of its main buildings. In Nahuatl, Teotihuacan means something like "place where gods were made." His legendary status as a center of worship continued until the point where the Aztecs placed there the cosmogony of the Legend of the Suns (the immolation of the ancient gods in a pile to create the sun, the moon, the movement of these stars and hence life) and moved to the place for their rites. Also, as is tradition, joined his best sculptures, jewelry and all sorts of valuable pieces to their own places of worship.
"Teotihuacan was one of the most important cities in Mesoamerica, especially through trade of obsidian, with which they made their daggers, and the V century AD to have 125,000 inhabitants came from distant places, which were distributed in an area of \u200b\u200b25 square kilometers, "says Diana Magaloni, director of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico, an institution from much of the funds in this sample, the largest to date on this culture. The organization is run by the Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico.
"We have not emptied the museum, although there are some pieces from the permanent collection, as most come from the latest excavations or this other site called
be in boxes and thanks to the preparation of the exhibition have been restored and documented. " Magaloni not hide his impatience because many of these works can return soon to Mexico. Some of them are included in the new assembly hall dedicated to Teotihuacan in the museum that runs.
Among them will have a prominent place of monumental sculpture
Xalla Jaguar, found 11 years ago Xalla temple, a palace that according to excavation seems to have been an administrative center which is taking major policy decisions. Hard to say at all: almost everything around Teotihuacan are enigmas. Experts are still arguing about the kind of government that could take the city, and that beyond the archaeological references (it has been dug less than a quarter) and unless you can decipher even the ideographs on some pieces have to base their hypotheses on what happened in other cultures. "It is still under investigation, but this figure refers to a jaguar military groups most important place that this animal was a symbol," says Magaloni. "It is carved in stone but it is modular, like many of the sculptures and pieces of this culture, and was lined with fine stucco of lime and volcanic glass on which was painted with natural pigments." In fact, remember, all buildings and sculptures that were in Teotihuacan was painted and the city was dominated by reddish.
To Miguel A. Baez, scientific director of the exhibition in its 600 year history the art of Teotihuacan remained similar lines (Figures rigid with no signs of individuality), although the mural itself to appreciate different stages. Its statism does not prevent them emanate a beauty suggestive and strange, as the endless mystery of the city where the gods were forged.
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Catherine Serra for over ten years, and in the final days of Hosni Mubarak came to minister, and then resigned
, toward the president
-
has returned to the portfolio from which to manage culture in new times
, the agency Mena.
acclaimed for giving a voice to Egyptology native and criticized by media overexposure, Hawass
back to the fore after his absence a few weeks has led to the new authorities of the Nile to consider the need to maintain a reliable control
heritage of one of the greatest powers archaeological world. Among its successes has been the fight against corruption by raising the salaries of inspectors and other measures of greater significance, as well as an international campaign for the return of key players who left the country illegally, but has also been accused never fully tested of malpractice.
The truth is that no one could dig without permission in ancient deposits during the last decade and now, with his appointment as the strongman of the culture in the Cabinet, it will not change.
Unesco
pressed
Unesco was crying because the government needed to maintain control over the protection of the immense heritage of ancient Egypt, especially after the recent riots that toppled Mubarak in February. there were some robberies in the Cairo Museum, and after his resignation, Hawass has published on its website a list of all the looting that occurred during the period of instability in places such as Luxor, and Giza Saqarah .
yesterday again asked Unesco to place armed guards at the sites that are under pressure from the gangs of looters.
Hawas, of 63, is well known internationally for his hunger for publicity and his iron hand in controlling findings that the Council directs centralized decades. But under his leadership has been very demanding international shipments to submit detailed reports of their activities on Egyptian soil.
Among their demands, which have become known as the punishment of Egyptology the colonial era, include
the bust of Nefertiti, which is discussed in Berlin and the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum.
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Calero This system of writing and words such as adobe oasis or have their origin in a language and culture, the Egyptian, who has come to us through the Greeks and with whom we have common ground.
is clear that this interest has led to the professor at the University of Jaén (UJA) Alejandro Jimenez to organize an introductory course
Until June 9, about 25 Jaén of the opposite sex and condition will approach the Middle Egyptian (something like the English of Cervantes, we might say) through exercises that will allow them to go decoding obituaries funeral inscriptions on statues, reliefs and paintings .
course Warm welcome
"The idea is to acquire a sufficient level to
to transcribe and simple ideas, even
compound sentences, "said Jimenez, who also confesses a pleasant surprise it has brought him the welcome of course.
" Last year we organized a seminar and people are left wanting more, dig a little. However, we did not expect
have so many requests, "says the coordinator of the course, open to all citizens and often, in fact, the most colorful people.
" We
from housewives
to academics, and also the age range is very wide "says Jiménez. Basically, we could mean that students are divided into three groups: those who want to solve curiosity, a passion for the civilization of the Nile country and people have learned that thirst for knowledge for knowledge ".
hieroglyphic writing
Besides being coordinator and professor, partly funded by the Faculty of Humanities, Alejandro Martinez leads one of the five English excavation projects there right now in Egypt, a country where, according to him, 90 percent of the existing remains still unknown.
is not surprising, therefore, that now has about 150
there
international projects, one of which is Qubbet El-Hawa, through which the UJA has been working for three years in a cemetery located in Aswan, southern Egypt.
"On October 29, 2010 ended last season. In three weeks, I'll be doing some bureaucratic work and visit the site to see their status after revolution, "says the professor, who said he has found just one third of the excavation.
" The fourth season, which will take place between November and February, is the most important. We hope you can publish interesting new things that are not discovered every day, "he says.
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The area where the museum's specialists placed the amphitheater began to remodel the late 60 (the project to build there homes, offices, hotel and cinemas received the endorsement of the College of Architects on December 27, 1969), although it was working on different phases. And the hotel, designed by architects Joseph Yarza 
not opened until 1982. 
"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 
about thirty teachers from the United States, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Italy, Egypt and Spain in order to shed light on Tartesos and place it in its historical context, according to the director ELMUNDO.es advance of the conclave, Juan Campos, professor of Archaeology at the UHU. 
of Tarshish and its borders, the structure of their society, the construction of identity of this civilization, its relationship with other Mediterranean peoples, metal production and trade relations and habitats, and beliefs tartésicos necropolis. 
, who teaches with Professor Luisa Garcia, a doctoral student of that institution. 
