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Seventeen parts of the Archaeological Museum of Cartagena will be transferred to form part of the exhibition

Scipio's conquest of Hispania by Rome, which can be seen between February and September in the Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid

A sample of the great archaeological heritage has Cartagena will be transferred to form part of an exhibition which will focus on the figures of the Scipio family and its role in the conquest of Hispania by the Roman Empire.

They are seventeen pieces from the collections which houses the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena

Enrique Escudero de Castro,

who will travel to Madrid in the coming days as a temporary loan.

This sample of our heritage, will be part of the great exhibition Scipio.

The conquest of Hispania in Rome organized by the Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid, Alcala de Henares, which will be open between February and September this year.

The theme of the exhibition tries to explain how the decisive historical event meant for the Roman conquest of Hispania was the result of the clash between Roma and Carthaginés Empire, with its foundation in Hispania.

The centerpiece of the exhibition will focus on the response of imperial Rome, they had many members of one of the largest families of the Roman aristocracy, especially Scipio.

They, like Barca in Carthago represented the modernization of Rome by taking the Hellenistic models, which was called the nova sapientia, which personally be forwarded to the Alexandri imitatatio, taking forms of power and self-representation by model monarch made hero who beat Alejandro.

The exhibition will also host a significant number of archaeological objects from different sources, including the National Museum of Rome, the Museum of Roman Culture, the Archaeological Museum of Seville, the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona and the Museum of Ampurias.

The exhibition is curated by Prof. Dr.

Bendala Manuel Galán, Professor of Archaeology, who is now retired and for many years has been director of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the Faculty of Arts at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena