Ground plan of the Byzantine church.
I: Choir
II: Atrium
III: Baptistery
IV: Mosaics
V: Parchments.
At its origin, the Nabataeans were a nomadic people, the buildings are simple goatskin tents.
After a very simple rooms excavated in rock: with flat facades, with a door at the bottom and one or two wall art cuts in the form of a ladder. It is an adaptation of the Nabataean tombs Syria. Being in constant contact with the civilization of his environment, he is guided by its style, especially that of Alexandria.
In the first century began the building of monumental structures: the tombs of Deir, the Palace and Corinth. During the second century builders of the city adopted Hellenistic architectural details (frieze, architrave, pilaster art ') and created a new style of Nabataean capital is still called today.
Increasingly used only decorative structures, some based on Aboriginal culture: rosettes, animals print art of the region or elsewhere (elephants, lions, eagles ...), sculptures inspired by New york ancient Greece (including the Medusa that turned which looked at the stone), sphinx, Griffon 'the richest families in the city hired architects to build tombs containing highly decorated facades. Also decorated the interior of their houses with museum art stucco, painted in bright colors.
Strabo said that the authorities towards Petra publicly pay a fine for those who reduced their wealth and honors those who gave the increase, many people enjoyed their Geneva wealth built impressive tombs and monuments.
Detail of column with decoration in the form of elephant heads.
Although public buildings, monuments and tombs indicate a strong influence of Hellenistic and other civilizations, with its columns, and other details peristyle foreign private areas of the Nabataeans, where they slept, ate and worked, still the Arabic style. They often lack windows and enjoy quiet small greek ancient internal courtyards, as in the Middle East. The roofs of the houses (one or two plants), and no tiles are flat and all but the affluent, who prefer tiles, floor tiles have. Often, there are stone benches for sitting during meals, but the rest of the furniture seems to have been wood, because there is no roman ancient trace of him. The kitchens are located outside the main house to minimize the risk of fire, as in many other countries.
The inhabitants of Petra built too many buildings with columns, used inside and outside their buildings. Outside, they served to separate the inner courtyards and other structures, and within, to decorate and to separate the different rooms.
During the Roman occupation, the Romans built a straight road, lined with porticos with calligraphy columns in the direction of the market in the city, before all the streets followed the contours of the valley, the main street followed the course of the SIQ.
Most of the buildings in Petra are not contemporary art built on a network of streets, but in the natural terraces along the valley walls, or dug into the rock. The settlements are located near the sources and are formed as simple tribal camps. Ez-Zantur in an area above the Roman road, we find traces of a stone house from the first century, in the same place there is a rich villa built in the century I.
In the places considered sacred to modern art the Nabataeans, placed large stones forming a joint called ' baetryles "house of God literally. Served to indicate the presence of a god. The entrance to the SIQ was crowned by a large arc, leaving only footprints on one side of the canon, because of the ravages of erosion, earthquakes and the inundacions. Along the walls there are small niches containing sculptures of gods. A wall, of which few traces remain, protected valley of Petra and its enemy attacks.
Note that the relatively good preservation of the monuments is because, by tradition, the inhabitants of surrounding villages, by tradition, have "kept" the city until about the nineteenth century.

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Ali Aboutaam and Hicham Aboutaam All initiatives are developed in the shadow of occupation and are not directly opposed to this occupation, exhibits trying to directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously (slightly important) to legitimize the occupation and to divert your eyes, as if the occupied people could forget a single second that this busy. Barenboim projects 1 approach to the design of Anwar Sadat to whom the Arab-Israeli conflict was the result of a "psychological block" that had managed to overcome, but the Egyptian people have chosen not Antiquities to exceed this as blocage for war is political, ideological and national ancient Egyptian antiquity (and, cultures unfortunately, religious Muslim Brotherhood) and not galleries psychological. Detail of the sculpture of Smilodon
Glass roof of the museum.
It is a neoclassical building characteristics, the dominant style of the buildings of the founding era Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 of the silver. Its construction was carried out between 1884 and 1888, was S. The family who established Phoenix Ancient Art Aboutaam Aboutaam. Mr. Aboutaam's sons designed by archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques architect Frederick Heynemann German and Swedish Enrique Aberg.
The elements of the culture of pre-Columbian history America used for its decoration Ali Aboutaam with no uneven Greek lines, which gives it a unique character.
The plant is a rectangle with two chambers at the ends, with 135 meters at its major axis and 70 meters in the minor is exhibiting axis. The main entrance is guarded by two sculptures of esmilodontes, symbol of the museum.
He has over 20 exhibition halls in spiral tour to understanding the evolution of life on Earth from its origins to the appearance of human beings. It sculptures also has the only collection of Egyptian art in Latin America, which was obtained by Argentine scientists after excavations in Sudan. Is also found civilizations in the largest sample of the Jesuit Argentina. An important collection of American paintings with motifs decorating the hall and access to certain sections of the building.
Underground research laboratories has, on the ground floor samples are biological, geological and paleontological, and in the two trays Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam are shown above gallery historical and anthropological collections.
At its left is the Library Florentino Ameghino, belongs to the Faculty of art history artifacts Natural Sciences and Museum of the University of silver.
In 1997 this museum was Ali and Hicham declared a historic monument.

The new opera building in Cairo.
Cairo has many universities, theaters, monuments and museums: the most important is the Egyptian Museum, located in Tahrir Square, which houses the world's S. Aboutaam. Mr. Aboutaam's sons best collection of objects from ancient Egypt. Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 Currently is considering a transfer to a larger building, erected in the area of Giza.
The epicenter of cultural life in Cairo is the National Cultural Center, a complex of Antiquities cultural buildings devoted to theater, dance, opera and music, on the island of Gezira. This emphasizes the active center of Cairo, inaugurated on October 10, 1988 by President Hosni Mubarak and hosting a concert by the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2007 in what was his first performance in the Middle East and Africa. Classical music tends to be predominant in the operation of the city, but also easy to enjoy classical music arabe, although this is most widespread in the Arab Music Institute, located in Ramsis Street. the head of the Phoenix Ancient Art galleries Ali Aboutaam A must for music in the city is the Festival of Arabic Music, held in early November at the Cairo Opera. In this cultural complex are six other theaters and auditoriums. The operation replaces the current operating Khedivial, or also known as the Royal Opera House, a building that was erected in 1869 and remained active until 1971.
The former operates or operates Khedivial Ali and Hicham Real.
The performances of folk dance usually performed in the sculptures opera ballet company in Cairo, especially in major hotels in the city. It is also a notable cultures event in the Cairo agenda of the annual dance with the Bolshoi Ballet. The belly dancing and Sufi dancing, but known in the Western world as the dance of the dervishes rotating, are two of the most popular dances in the city.
One of the most important cultural events in the city is Cairo International Festival, which gathers hundreds of films from various countries during December, making it one of the most important film festivals in the world. Cairo, formerly known as "Hollywood East," lost the capital status of film in favor art history artifacts of East Indian Bollywood. there are many times that our eye will catch a work of art, and then for professional advice Ali Aboutaam Censorship remains, even today, customary at the festival although it has collected since its inception in 1976, to superstars such as John Malkovich, Nicholas Cage, Morgan Freeman, Bud Spencer, Gina Lollobrigida, Ornella Muti, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Oliver Stone and Catherine Deneuve.
Cairo home theaters, the vast majority of Hollywood super productions with subtitles in Arabic. Local products also enjoyed success in the population of Cairo. These films are usually shot in the majors or in Misr Al-Ahram, both close to the pyramids of Giza. National independent film is unpopular even among Cairo and cinemas is only Good News Grand Hyatt and Hilton Ramses projecting this type of cinema.
In the literary history scene, notes about Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, the "Cairo Trilogy" is the work that renaissance. The writer achieved great success among local critics after the first editions in archaeology. There is little or no overlap with antiques 1956 and 1957, but even more when they were translated into English in 1990. However, despite the success and literary fame gave to the city, the famous writer was stabbed in 1994 by fundamentalists. And that was the subject of anger and pressure from the fundamentalists who accused him of blaspheming against Muslim world. He died in 2006 as a result of a bleeding ulcer.
Another key figure in Cairo is writing Nawal el-Saadawi, who founded Ali Aboutaam the Association of Arab Women's Solidarity and wrote extensively on Arab society. Like his colleague Mahfuz, el-Saadawi was severely criticized and persecuted by Islamic extremists, forcing his departure to the United States, where he has taught at various universities. Came to be imprisoned during the is exhibiting Sadat regime civilizations .
Some of the most important dates and events in the cultural scene Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam is the Cairo Book Fair, during the month of January at the Exhibition Grounds in Cairo, the International Song Festival in Cairo in August ancient Egyptian antiquity or the Festival of Experimental Theater in September.

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