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Awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Ends

The Council of Ministers has today awarded the Order of Arts and Letters from Spain Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the National Board of Antiquities of Egypt, in recognition to their careers and their contribution to the international dissemination of English culture. As reported by the Executive after the meeting, its work Hawass has helped foster a better understanding of English culture and their appreciation for the citizens of other countries. The Order of Arts and Letters in Spain is an honorary distinction, created by the Culture Ministry last July, which is to recognize the work of individuals or institutions with their works or through their active participation in various fields of artistic or literary creation, contributing to the spread of culture beyond our borders.
Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, born in the city of Dimyat (Damietta, Egypt) in 1947, is "undoubtedly" the most distinguished and renowned Egyptologist worldwide, according to the Ministry of Culture.
As general secretary of the National Board of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass has an active policy of protection, retrieval and dissemination of archaeological Egyptian.
also throughout his long career he has worked on numerous archaeological sites throughout the geography of his country. Hawass
maintains a relationship of full cooperation with the English archaeological mission in Egypt, as evidenced by participation Superior Council of Antiquities and the National Museum of Cairo in the exhibition "120 years of English Archaeology in Egypt."
This exhibition pays homage to the English contribution to Egyptology from the late nineteenth century, and will be inaugurated in early April.
addition, Hawass has repeatedly cooperated with major archaeological museums of Spain.

Source: Confidential http://www.elconfidencial.com
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the signature campaign in defense of the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia

The signature collection campaign initiated by a group of archaeologists and museum in defense "the integrity" of the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, which began in February, ended after a few days ago the Minister Joan Manuel Tresserras says the center will not close.
This was the second campaign he undertook the bus and I had won some 600 firms, among others, 17 university professors, 91 professors from universities in the Catalan area of \u200b\u200bSpain and Europe, of 16 renowned international researchers, 44 26 archaeologists and museum curators relevant.
All these people were contrary to the "dissolution" of the Museum of Archaeology in the future Museum of Social Sciences, a project launched in January 2008, the Minister Tresserras.
In a statement released today, the architects of this initiative believe the campaign should end at the statements of the minister of the 11th of March in the Parliament, which reaffirmed the will of his department not only close the museum but of strengthening it.
According to archaeologists, the Republican political assertion "implies that the draft Social Science Museum, which is being developed with an investment of more than half a million euros, will respect the character of the Catalan National Museum of current law gives the Museum of Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, and that the museum will continue having its headquarters in the capital.
other hand, value "very positive" results achieved and highlight that "the overwhelming response to the second manifesto confirms rejection of professional environments of archeology and history, to displacement policy Catalan archaeological museum complex undertaken by the Department of Culture.
also believe the campaign has been successful to strengthen solidarity and close ranks with the deconstruction of national history and archeology.

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Djehuty Found gold on his tomb at Thebes

A English team is jewelry in the excavation

Egyptology The English adventure in ancient Theban necropolis of Dra Abu el Naga (Luxor) and shines with the sparkle of gold. The team under the direction of Madrid José Manuel Galán, a member of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), who excavated the tomb of Djehuty noble and surrounding area since 2002 has discovered pieces of jewelry in his last campaign, which ended on 22 February. in particular, have unearthed six gold earrings, two mismatched, prompting predictions that may still appear other two.
Despite the shock of the word gold associated with ancient Egypt, Galán stressed this newspaper last night: "As the song of Manu Chao, not only that glitters is gold." And, he stressed, has found something just as valuable as the noble metal: a chamber decorated with texts and paintings. It appears that the objects are part of the funerary equipment of Djehuty, a high official of Queen Hatshepsut, or a family member. It was during his time when nobles Nubian Egyptians adopted the custom to wear earrings. Djehuty, whose mummy and looking outfit for eight years, the English team to excavate, restore and publish the numerous structures and objects in the area, lived during the XVIII Dynasty, about 3,500 years ago. Djehuty's name is emblematic of English Egyptology. The project Galán and his team developed at Dra Abu el Naga, into the Valley of the Kings and the temple of Deir el Bahari, one of the most exclusive area of \u200b\u200bexcavations in the world, has continued to report major findings. Suffice it to mention the Table of the Apprentice, with an unusual frontal portrait of a pharaoh, Iqer archer's burial or coffin of the White Lady (which will be a stellar piece of the exhibition on the English missions in Egypt which will open early April in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo).
This campaign had to be meeting with Djehuty because it would dig his burial chamber at the end of a well Inside the tomb, a work that has had to postpone going to the unexpected findings in other areas, as fruitful as the grave yard, and the need to strengthen structures to avoid dangerous landslides. The jewels have appeared in the doorway in an unknown second burial chamber that was behind the famous, after a ten-foot pit. This new venue is decorated in two of the walls with texts from the Book of the Dead and lights in the ceiling painting of the goddess Nut. Neither
sarcophagus and the mummy of Djehuty are on the camera but much remains to be clearing operations. Galán believes the mummy could be burned. In the current campaign have been other notable findings such as moon leg, skirt, the statue of a pharaoh in pink granite. The jewels were in a burial chamber with paintings.

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will bring to El Prado 500 light work of their funds over the next four years

The museum opened 25 new rooms that exhibit collections will now remain stored for lack of space

The Prado Museum will open in the next four years 25 new rooms in the Villanueva building, which will exhibit 500 works from the collections that now remain stored for lack of space. The deputy director of conservation, Gabriele Finaldi, unveiled details of a reorganization affecting three floors of the museum. "In 2012 some 1,500 works will be displayed in 100 rooms, now there are just under 1,000," he said.
The new organizational structure will be opening "staged" and they have access to the public. In spring we see the first fruits of a process in which rooms have been rescued and cabinets that were previously dedicated to dealing with bureaucracy, restoration workshops, etc. "Around April, will be exhibited in the first remodeled rooms (first floor) Italian paintings from the XV and XVI centuries," said Finaldi.
"After the summer explains the nineteenth-century English collections, formed by more than one hundred paintings and sculptures twenty. "
"An ideal course"
Velázquez door structure the new exhibition. With its reopening, said Finaldi, "it offers the visitor an ideal route." This tour - 'chronological and schools "- would begin in the Hall of the Muses (the goddesses of art inspiring) and the collections continue to Medieval, Renaissance, Flemish, Italian and English.
the gallery's director, Miguel Zugaza, stressed the importance of integrating the nineteenth century painting the Villanueva building.
"Within a few months we will have an overview of English art, an overview ranging from the Romanesque paintings of San Baudelio de Berlanga, the twelfth century, to paintings by Joaquin Sorolla Beruete Aureliano in the nineteenth. "
also expose the large model made by the architect Juan de Villanueva before taking the works of the building. Guide

The museum has published a 'Guide to the Prado "for the general public and made by great specialists. This is a selection of four pieces-paintings, sculptures, drawings and decorative arts, explained "with a language close and affordable," said Zugaza. Sponsored by Telefónica is published in English and English. The first guide of the museum dates from 1819.
volume, which includes some works that will be present after the reorganization, has been drawn "with brief words, reliable and accurate data," said Finaldi. "We will prove useful to the visitor who comes for the first time that you want to go deeper into the museum collection."

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Saqara discovered in a cemetery of more than 3,000 years old Amelia Baldeon

EFE Cairo
A mission of Japanese archaeologists have found a cemetery of the Nineteenth Dynasty New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC) to the coffin of a noblewoman in the area Saqara , 25 miles south of Cairo.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced in a statement that within the cemetery is a limestone coffin is a woman named Isis NFERT who had the title of "noble woman", and three mummies and funerary remains of material.
The cemetery appeared as Japanese archaeologists excavating in the northwest of the archaeological site of Saqara and close to several antiques belonging to one of the sons of Pharaoh Ramses II, who reigned between 1279 and 1213 BC
CSA general secretary Zahi Hawas said that the cemetery is very typical of the style of the New Kingdom because it has a dome, a courtyard with four columns, an internal room with four columns and the space devoted to the burial of the deceased, including rooms.
According to the head of the mission of Japanese archaeologists, Sakogi Yushimora, the coffin has a broken hand and inscriptions in blue, indicating the name and the title of women to which it belongs. Yushimora
noted that the title of "noble woman" is very rare in the New Kingdom of ancient times.
also said that it is possible that the entire cemetery NFERT belongs to Isis, which may be the daughter of a prince.

Source: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/03/03/cultura/1236085750.html