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The University of Murcia and the City of Murcia have signed a collaboration agreement on Tuesday that will allow researchers from the UMU to carry out the archaeological excavation and a detailed study of the remains of the San Esteban site.
The agreement signed by the mayor, José Ballesta, and the rector, José Luján, lay the foundations of what is known as Phase 0 of the project, which will begin next autumn.
In this phase the researchers of the University of Murcia, under the direction of Jorge Eiroa, will focus their work to excavate three spaces: the one known as enclosure 1, in which there is an Islamic funduq (a hostel for travelers and merchants) the mosque o oratory and the funeral area.
The works on the land will last two months that will be completed with another two months of work in laboratories.
Eiroa explained that they expect to obtain important results in all areas, although it has highlighted the expectations that exist regarding the funduq's research, since it will be able to give answers about what was the daily life at the time and there are no recorded excavations of deposits of this type of inns throughout the western Mediterranean.
The intention of both the City Council and the University of Murcia is that this collaboration continues to be extended over time and carry out successive phase work to know in a scientific manner all the heritage that is in the field.
The research work is expected to involve a dozen UMU professionals, as well as a similar number of interns who will be able to use the knowledge they obtain to carry out final degree, master or doctorate projects.
The Ambar research group of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena will also collaborate.
One of the particularities of the project is that citizens will be able to see how archaeologists from the University of Murcia and the rest of the researchers involved work on the ground.
The rector of the UMU stressed that thanks to this agreement "we can understand at once what is the site of San Esteban, how was the city in the Middle Ages, and value the site, making it open to citizenship."
Luján has highlighted the importance of the fact that the University is the institution in charge of research.
Both he and Mayor Ballesta, ex-rector of the UMU, have also emphasized the importance of research in the humanities to recover our history.
"This is an example of the social value of taxes that are invested in society," said Ballesta.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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