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During the days 5, 9, 13, 17, 23 and 27 March, at 7:30 p.m., the cycle of conferences 'Gods, tombs and papyri' is held at the Las Claras Cajamurcia Cultural Center, with the coordination of teachers from the University of Murcia (UMU) José Miguel Noguera Celdrán and Consuelo Ruiz Montero.

The cycle offers a journey through ancient sacred lands, such as Egypt and Israel, in an attempt to dialogue between archeology and the papyraceous texts that appeared there, their ancestral wisdoms and modern research technologies, conducted by the hand of Spanish experts of international prestige.

PROGRAM

-Thursday, March 5: Excavations in Heracleópolis Magna (Egypt): project history and main findings.

Dr. María del Carmen Pérez-Die.

Department of Antiquities of Egypt and the Middle East, National Archaeological Museum of Madrid.

-Monday, March 9: "We said yesterday": The Greek papyri.

Dr. Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart (University of Valencia) and Dr. María Paz López Martínez (University of Alicante).

-Friday March 13: Papyrus of the Coffins: documents for the deceased in ancient Egypt.

Dr. Carlos Gracia Zamacona (University of Alcalá de Henares).

-Tuesday March 17: The flood in the mythologies of the East and Greece.

Dr. Rafael Jiménez Zamudio (Seminar of Assyrology and Egyptology of the University of Alcalá de Henares.

-Monday, March 23: Archeology in the lands of the Bible: socio-historical contexts and peoples in contact.

Dr. Cayetana H. Hohnson (UESD of Madrid).

-Friday March 27: The Bible in the trash: the first Christian testimonies.

Dr. Juan Chapa Prado (University of Navarra).

Source: Universidad de Murcia