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Militants Attack UNESCO Holy Site in Timbuktu

May 17, 2012

According to multiple reports out of Timbuktu, militants from the Ansar Dine Islamist group have attacked and burned the tomb of Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s the first major destruction of a shrine in Mali, and a clear warning to the rest of the country’s cultural heritage sites.

Tags: Africa, Global Heritage Network, Mali, Timbuktu, UNESCO, War and Conflict

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Timbuktu’s Treasures Threatened by Conflict

April 13, 2012

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Few of Earth’s ancient cities have the mystique to match Timbuktu. During its golden age in medieval times, Timbuktu was a thriving desert trading capital, as well as an intellectual and spiritual center, from which Islam spread throughout Africa. Since then, the city has fallen into serious decline, suffering from poverty and desertification. Now it faces another threat: war and conflict.

Tags: Africa, Global Heritage Network, Mali, Timbuktu, UNESCO, War and Conflict

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GHF Cyrene Featured in CNN Story About Importance of Culture in Post-Gaddafi Libya

March 21, 2012

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Since the overthrow of ruler Muammar Gaddafi last October, much has been made about how newly free Libya should go about building its new identity. This week, a CNN special report by Alia Al-Senussi focuses on the potential of Libya’s history to help heal and develop the country as it makes that transition.

Tags: Africa, Cyrene, Global Heritage Fund, Libya, Libyan Heritage Trust, War and Conflict

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Leaked Government Memo Warns of Organized Looting in Syria

March 21, 2012

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Looting is not a new problem for Syrian cultural authorities. Despite harsh punishments doled out to offenders (up to 20 years in prison), gangs of looters have operated in the country for years, smuggling artifacts over the border to satisfy antiquities markets in Europe and the US. But a government memo leaked earlier this month suggests that the current conflict has put Syrian cultural sites at an even greater danger of organized looting.

Tags: Looting, Middle East, Palmyra, Syria, War and Conflict

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Troops Leave, Archaeologists Return, as Hope for Iraq’s Cultural Relics and Tourism Industry Grow

March 20, 2012

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On December 17th, the same day the last U.S. troops left Iraq, a group of archaeologists from Stony Brook University arrived in the country, becoming one of the first foreign archaeology teams to visit in more than 20 years.

Tags: Excavation, Global Heritage Network, Iraq, Middle East, Tourism, Ur, War and Conflict

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Syrian Army Attacks Palmyra’s Roman Ruins

March 05, 2012

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Since the violence that erupted in Syria nearly one year ago — a war that has so far left thousands dead and become one of the world’s biggest stories — the damage to the country’s ancient cities and cultural sites as a result of the conflict has remained largely unknown.

Tags: Middle East, Palmyra, Syria, UNESCO, War and Conflict

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GHN Report: Urbanization, Tourism Among the Threats to Laos’ Plain of Jars

February 23, 2012

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Dotting the landscape of Xieng Khouang Plateau in Laos are thousands of megalithic jars — part of an archaeological landscape aptly named the Plain of Jars. The structures, carved mainly from sandstone, granite or limestone, have been associated with the funerary customs of ancient inhabitants who occupied the area during the Iron Age (500 BCE - 500 CE).

Tags: Asia, Global Heritage Network, Laos, Lia Genovese, Plain of Jars, Southeast Asia, UNESCO, Urbanization, War and Conflict

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Egypt’s Tourism Sector Tumbles Amid Violence

February 03, 2012

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For the millions of Egyptians whose incomes depend on tourist money, a bleak economic outlook grew even bleaker this week after a soccer riot in Port Said left as many as 74 dead. Considered the worst outbreak of violence since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago, the clashes were followed a day later by protests that resulted in injuries to nearly 400 people.

Tags: Africa, Egypt, Middle East, Political Instability, War and Conflict

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Bosnia’s Top Cultural Institutions Under Threat

January 25, 2012

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Nearly two decades after a brutal war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, displaced two million from their homes, and destroyed museums and libraries, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s top cultural institutions are again in imminent danger — this time because of political conflict and neglect.

Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe, Political Instability, Serbia, War and Conflict

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NATO Employed “No Strike List” to Protect Libya’s Heritage Sites from Air Attacks

January 06, 2012

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For months leading up to the overthrow of Muammar el-Gaddafi, Libya’s cultural heritage sites — which include some of Africa’s most spectacular ancient Greek and Roman ruins — faced the fire of NATO air strikes. Thankfully, they survived.

Tags: Africa, Libya, NATO, War and Conflict

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