New GHF Project
Marcahuamachuco, Peru

The site of Marcahuamachuco was a major regional center in the Andean Early Middle Horizon period (300–700A.D.). Located in the northern Peruvian highlands of La Libertad and until recently a difficult site to reach, today a new road makes it accessible in three and a half hours from Trujillo, the third largest city on the country's Pacific coast and the location of major Moche heritage sites. The function of the site, although not fully clear, was as the seat of a ceremonial oracle, as well as a religious and political center, including turning into a burial site in its later stages. Its influence extended to all of northern Peru and contemporary southern Ecuador. Global Heritage Fund is working with the Unidad Ejecutivo Marcahuamachuco (UEM) to prepare a program of planning, conservation and community development to enable long-term site sustainability.

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National Geographic's - June 2011 issue - featured "The Birth of Religion," a cover story about Göbekli Tepe in Turkey that discusses the significance of its massive pillars and how they are reshaping today's ideas about the Neolithic Revolution and the dawn of civilization. GHF is funding planning, conservation and community development at this enigmatic prehistoric site.

2011 Preservation Fellowship Program Recipients

GHF is pleased to announce that the 2011 Preservation Fellows have been selected! Intended to support cultural heritage preservation and community development at sites throughout the developing world, the Global Heritage Preservation Fellowship Program provides support to young researchers to make a difference while gaining skills and experience in the field.

Press Release:

Global Heritage Fund (GHF), an international conservancy devoted to saving endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries, will be represented by Dr. Serenella Ensoli, Project Director for GHF Cyrene, and John Hurd, Director of International Conservation, at a conference focusing on Libyan heritage sites endangered by current conflict in the region.

Global Heritage Fund (GHF), co-hosted a private opening on June 21st for "Maya: From Dawn to Dusk," a new exhibition at Quai Branly Museum in Paris that prominently features GHF project site El Mirador.

The exhibition, which runs from June 21 to October 2, wil feature more than 160 items, including painted ceramics, stelae, finely carved stones, funerary elements, architectural remains and ornaments, most of which have never left their country of origin.

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