Spain's Madinat Al Zahra excavation

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SHOTLIST AP Television Madinat Al-Zahra, Spain, 12th September 2010 1. Various of the excavation of the Madinat Al Zara 2. Wide of visitors entering the Madinat Al Zara Museum 3. Wide of museum sign 4. Various of visitors inside the entrance area 5. Various of gallery showing artifacts excavated at the site 6. Various of Ramon Fernandez, archaeologist at the Madinat Al Zara looking at restored artifacts in a display case 7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ramon Fernandez, Archaeologist, Madinat Al Zara Museum: "Radiant Al Zara is much more than a palace complex, it's a whole city with all its characteristics and is placed on a strategically chosen spot where the mountains stand forward, protrude. It's a step in the valley making a natural balcony and forming a spot where you can see far into the distance." 8. Various of visitors looking at artifacts in the main gallery of the museum AP Television Madrid, Spain, May 10th 2010 9. Various of the designers of the Radiant Al Zara Museum Madrid based architects Enrique Soybean and Fernanda Net in their Madrid office looking at plans 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Enrique Soybean, Architect: "We were interested in establishing this connection between contemporary architecture and the historic city of Abraham III. But we wanted to do it not in a literal way but rather established sort of dialogue and this dialogue is always a personal choice. In our case I would say that it's a dialogue between the actual contemporary way which of building which is what we see in the museum. On the other hand a historic Islamic city that was built one thousand years ago and on the other hand, the third level, the actual ruins that we see nowadays." AP Television, Madinat Al-Zahra, Spain, September 12th 2010 11. Various of people looking at video reconstructions of the Radiant Al Zara 12. Various of excavated artifacts in the museum gallery 13.SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ramon Fernandez, Archaeologist, Radiant Al Zara Museum: "A series of construction teams were created during this time that produced a distinctive, iconic style of Muslim Islamic art and architecture of the time and when the Madinat Al Zara was destroyed these schools of artisans and stonemasons etc dispersed into different parts of the Iberian peninsula and north Africa and they passed the skills they had developed in the Madinat Al Zara for the rest of the Islamic empire and the western world." 14. Various of the inner courtyard of the museum 15. Various of excavated artifacts on shelves in the museum's storage area awaiting examination or restoration 16. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Antonio Vallejo, Museum Director: "One part of the Madinat Al Zara can only be explained by the presence of someone in charge and the presence of architects and geometric experts trained in the east because there are some aspects of the urban layout of the Madinat Al Zahra which do not stem from earlier Spanish traditions and that forms an authentic new style that can only have come from these geometric experts and architects." 17. Various of the excavation site of the city of Madinat Al Zahra 18. Various of archaeologists restoring a wall on the site 19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Immaculate Munoz Matted, Restoration Specialist, Madinat Al Zahra Museum: "Given that our conservation work here is in an open air site, there's a constant struggle against the elements. When it is wet as in autumn and winter and nature advances, vegetation and plants proliferate. So in Spring and summer around that time of the year we have to fight back against this and to protect the archaeological remains." 20. Various of restoration work being carried out on a large pool 21. Various of the excavation of the city of Madinat Al Zahra with tourists looking at the remains You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5e80e5ef85ac2a71ff61478f5e0649fc Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork