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. "
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.
ABC.es
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