Under the heading "Gold at the dawn of the Bronze Age. Science, History and Museums".the National Archaeological Museum hosted a round table discussion with the participation of the following speakers Manuel Olcinadirector of MARQ and Juan Antonio López Padillaarchaeologist, exhibition technician at MARQ and curator of the exhibition "The Princess of the Carpathians. Argaric gold from San Antón, Orihuela"which can be visited until 25 January 2026 in the Sala de Novedades arqueológicas (Archaeological Novelties Room) of the Madrid museum.
Together with Manuel Olcina and Juan Antonio López Padilla, the round table included the participation of the following speakers Eduardo Galán Domingofrom the Department of Prehistory of the National Archaeological Museum, as moderator, and Roberto Risch, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB; Angel Rocamoraby Rocamora Arquitectura and Julia Montes-LandaMarie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Granada, as speakers.
This informative activity is part of the actions developed by the Fundación CV MARQ, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, through the MARQ and the MAN, linked to the exhibition on The Princess of the Carpathians, currently on display in Madrid and which previously, during 2023 and 2024, hosted both the exhibition space of the Lobby and the Temporary Rooms of the MARQ, in the international exhibition. "Dynasties. The First Kingdoms of Prehistoric Europe"..
The exhibition shows a funerary trousseau made up of a collection of pieces from the Bronze Age, more than 4,000 years oldfound in Orihuela more than a century ago by Jesuit Julio Furgús in a grave belonging to the so-called culture of El Argar.
The woman lying in that tomb was adorned with two silver spirals, a copper knife wrapped in a linen handkerchief, a metal awl, as well as a handmade ceramic vessel placed in front of her head, and a set of 75 tiny gold cones perforated, barely 3 millimetres thick, at the level of her neck.
