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Councillor of Culture, Wonders Fernández García, visited the new archaeological excavations that are being developed in the city of Begastri.
It has been led in the field by the campaign coordinator and director of the Archaeological Museum of Cehegín Francisco Peñalver Aroca.
A summer, and now number more than thirty, archaeologists have returned to work in the emblematic Visigoth town of Begastri thanks to the Hon.
Cehegín City Council, in collaboration with the CajaMurcia and CEPOAT Foundation (Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Late Antiquity at the University of Murcia) have organized and funded a new campaign of archaeological excavation in the Visigoth town of Begastri (Cehegín, Murcia ).
Between 24 July and 8 August, a total of 20 students from different Spanish universities (Murcia, Madrid, Canary Islands, Cadiz, Melilla, Segovia, Barcelona or Valencia), and among which many cehegineros volunteers and other neighboring municipalities, they have been directed and coordinated by Prof. José Antonio Molina Gomez of the University of Murcia, by archaeologist Jose Antonio Parra Zapata, and Francisco Peñalver Aroca, archaeologist Municipal Town Hall.
As explained by the Director of the excavations "this time have not visited students from foreign universities, but very often show interest in this future site Italian archaeologists, German and Polish. The campaign this year not only worships history Cehegín and Murcia, but also has also served to professionalize students of archeology, by organizing Archaeology Course Country in the Visigoth town of Begastri, where thanks to practical classes at the site own students have been both learn traditional excavation techniques, such as master photogrammetry, aerial photography kite and drone and using theodolite and total station instruments necessary today to undertake work in any multidisciplinary archaeological dig. "
The archaeological work this first week of intervention have focused on the western part of the acropolis of the city, continuing the work of the previous year, in addition to excavate one of the monumental entrances of the city, the so-called North Gate to finish document structures that are attached to the wall and configuration and evolution of the door itself over time.
Next Sunday will end the excavations and they are already providing enlightening information on the planning and organization of the city in different chronologies to be presented and will be announced upon its completion in a series of lectures and open house at the Archaeological Museum of Cehegín own .
Councillor of Culture, in turn wanted to express that "much interest worth a city, Begastri, the ancestral homeland of the ancient cehegineros, one day up proudly for all Murcia both the flag of Rome and civilization to the end of antiquity, as the emblem of the cross and freedom to the Muslim invasion and the Treaty of Orihuela ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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