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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, with Commissioners José Miguel Noguera and José María Madrid, today presented the exhibition 'Arx Hasdrúbalis.

The city restored.

Windlass Hill Archaeology ', which shows the results of excavations in the last two years in this field of Cartagena.

The exhibition will open in Murcia today at 20.30 am and remain open until 29 August in the temporary exhibition hall of the Archaeological Museum.

It is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in cooperation with the City of Cartagena, Cartagena Puerto de Culturas consortium and the Foundation of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena.

Ujaldón said the aim of the exhibition is "for citizens to know why it is so important to the windlass," adding that you can admire "some of the fundamental pieces that were found there," a hundred pieces that allow us to "recreate and therefore confirm the importance of Cartagena in the high Roman empire. "

Among the most significant pieces features a cornucopia of marble (cornucopia), according to the director general, is "one of the jewels of regional archeology," plus a plate inscriptions in an honorary capacity, a fragment of painted wall hunting scene and another with the imitation of marble, a larario, a Corinthian capital and a table stand, to which are added several small coins and pottery tools and related to everyday life.

It also has a rich set of reconstructions, virtual recreations and interactive and educational resources, which make archaeological materials in historical documents.

Windlass Hill

The sample was exposed for the first time in Cartagena between November 2009 and April 2010, part of the project 'Archaeological Park windlass.

Excavation, research and museological of the southern slope of Cerro del Pinwheel ', which includes the excavation, study and appreciation of a wide area of over 20,000 square meters, located in the old town of Cartagena and will result in future next to the largest Hispanic archaeological park located in the urban area.

The turnstile is a small orographic lift located in a central point of the ancient Punic and Roman city, which contains in its extraordinarily rich archaeological subsoil.

Source: CARM