Queen Sofia Inaugurates the Museum which Houses Original Fossils Found in Atapuerca

BURGOS.- The Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos opened its doors to the public after Queen Sofia inaugurated the facility yesterday accompanied by institutional representatives responsible for the center and part of the Atapuerca research team. In her tour of the museum, Sofia received explanations by the project architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg, noting the main parts of the museum, giving special attention to the original fossils found in the mountains of Burgos, the gallery of hominids and parts of the museum that explain the studies of Charles Darwin and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. The opening of the Museum of Human Evolution is a culmination of a project that began in 1999 when then mayor, Angel Olivares, announced his intention of devoting the solar Cavalry, which was used as a parking lot – as a complex dedicated to Atapuerca, which would become a research center and a regional museum. The president of the Ju

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