Aseguran that is the most important find of its kind in 30 years. EFE / A. Sultan
- objects have an approximate age of one thousand six hundred years
Israeli Ran Feinstein and Ofer Raanan discovered the lot, consisting of statuettes, pieces of currency and marine objects, when they were scuba diving in April
Israeli Ran Feinstein and Ofer Raanan fortuitously discovered brassware when they were scuba diving in April, said Monday the Antiquities Authority.
alerted authorities and other dives allowed up several objects of late Roman period, trace loading of a merchant ship apparently carrying metal it destined to be recycled or melted.
they were found in this Mediterranean port a bronze lamp with the image of the sun god, a statuette of the goddess Moon, a lamp with the effigy of an African slave, fragments of bronze statues, a water faucet as boar, anchors and various objects of navigation, and clusters of old pieces of coin weighing a total of 20 kilos.
These pieces have the image of Emperor Constantine, who reigned first in the western part and then throughout the Roman Empire until his death in 337, and Licinius, his rival who reigned in the eastern and was defeated in 324.
Agglomerated each other, the pieces were shaped vessel that contained them.
According to Jacob Sharvit, director of the marine unit of the Antiquities Authority the ship was apparently caught in a storm at the harbor entrance. Then he drifted to crash into the rocks and the dam, after trying to throw the anchors, which were broken by the force of the waves and the wind.
“is not found in Israel a marine set like this for 30 years, “they said Sharvit and his deputy Jacob Planer Dror, said in a statement. “The discoveries of metal statues are rare because in antiquity they are smelted” they added.
Caesarea was built by King of Judea, Herod in the first century BC. Its important remains of Roman and medieval times have made this town one of the attractions of Israel.
the first version of the manuscript of ‘Frankenstein’, 1816. Photo: screenshot. SPECIAL /
CULTURE
- 200 years of the novel conceived by Mary Shelley in Switzerland
are commemorated owners of the mansion on Lake Geneva will guided since October
to commemorate the 200th anniversary of this novel conceived by British author Mary Shelley during a stay in Switzerland, an exhibition called “ Frankenstein , created out of darkness” opened.
in a dimly lit in the basement of the Martin Bodmer Foundation room, yellowed handwritten pages taken from a notebook in which Shelley wrote in 1816 the first version of this masterpiece of romantic literature are discussed.
the idea of ”unfortunate monster” came to mind when she was only 18 years old and spent the summer with her fiance, British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, at the Villa Diodati, near Geneva, rented for the summer period the illustrious Lord Byron .
the current owners of this quaint mansion overlooks Lake Geneva will open the doors of their private guided tours in the time of the exhibition, which will run until October 9 visits park.
Competition
ghost
in the summer of 1816, the weather was particularly bad in Geneva by the massive eruption of the Indonesian volcano Tambora, and spend the time, the poet Lord Byron asked each of the writers gathered at the Villa Diodati to imagine a ghost story.
the English author John Polidori wrote the Vampire, which was published three years later and is considered the first novel of the vampire genre.
in this exhibition in Geneva, the work is with other first editions, including three of the novel by Mary Shelley Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, most famous novel emerged from the contest launched by Lord Byron.
When the work was first published in 1918, did not carry the name of Shelley, only the name. One of the copies of the exhibition, presented as a gift to the man who encouraged his writing, he bears the only mention a brief “to Lord Byron, its author”.
“His name was unknown, no have contributed anything to the book sales, especially a female name, “says David Spurr, a professor of English literature at the University of Geneva and curator of the exhibition.
Shelley, daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, sought inspiration in the fear generated in the society of the time to science and technology.
Since 2015, Egypt has recovered a total of 546 antiques from Switzerland, the United States, Germany, Austria and Belgium. AFP / FILE
- the pieces were taken to France smuggled
the authorities handed antiques to the Egyptian Embassy in Paris after more than six years of negotiations and legal measures
In a statement, Al Anani said that the French authorities gave antiques to the Egyptian embassy in Paris after more than six years of negotiations and legal measures.
The general supervisor of the Department of Archaeology Recovered, Shaban Abdelgauad recalled that these 44 pieces, along with other recovered last year, had been seized at the French airport “Charles de Gaulle” in March and November 2010.
About the pieces, Abdelgauad stressed that the limestone statue of the Greco-Roman era (332 BC-395 AD) depicts a woman.
The rest are spindle noses, earrings, crosses, wooden objects and hands, which were used as musical instruments, dating back to the Egyptian Coptic Christian period (395-641 A.D.).
Since 2015, Egypt has recovered a total of 546 antiques from Switzerland, the United States, Germany, Austria and Belgium, among other countries.
The illegal excavations and smuggling of antiquities is relatively common in Egypt and worsened since 2011 due to political and security instability in the country.
The story of Juan Rulfo and Angelina Clara Aparicio could be described as literary outset. THE INFORMER / FILE
- New book with the letters he sent to his wife
the federal Ministry of Culture recalls the author of ” Pedro Paramo ” the book ” Letters to Clara ”
These letters were collected in 2014 by Editorial RM, as part of Program Coediciones of the Directorate General of Posts (DGP) of then Conaculta , and today attest that love was serious thing to Rulfo, an essential force that drew its existence.
reveals so in the 81 letters to Clara Aparicio, whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had a love affair that lasted until the death of the author of “the burning plain” in 1986 .
according to the agency, the story of Juan Rulfo and Angelina Clara Aparicio could be described as literary from the start, he was 11 years older when he met and that to be in love with her began to investigate, the degree of impersonating an employee of the immigration office to go home and get information.
That story of love and courtship follow several stages, as Rulfo used to give gifts and pay anonymously ices Clara and her friends until she was confronted by her parents and asked them permission to court her.
Shortly before from Guadalajara to the Mexico City , John asked her to be his girlfriend, and after hearing your reply would begin correspondence she kept for years as one of its greatest treasures, because in it the Mexican writer recorded his deepest feelings.
for the filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo, his father’s writing is filled with visual emotions.
“are full of those little sensations that make you transport yourself to a moment, are those little moments surely everyone knows and everyone has their privacy and that sometimes seems not worth saying them because you keep them for a long time. “
in that epistolary exchange, Juan Rulfo is demonstrating not only deep imagination but on its ability to share Clara a visual universe through words.
his father’s voice, he adds, is always present beyond its literature, through the experiences surrounding his life.
“One yearns with a written handwritten letter, not an email by Internet , not a chat, no Twitter, no none of it is ephemeral, but that letter he writes. You realize that there are very few physical things someone, is the shoe but still; They are his books, but are printed, and then the assessment of all that material begins.
“The only thing left me after seeing the shoes or books, or listening to my mother I tell stories of his life, are those texts that have to do with something much more universal, “said Juan Carlos Rulfo.
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