ISIS’s destruction of archeological treasures is horrifying but reflects a too-human history of obliterating the past of “enemy” cultures. Moreover, all is not really “lost.”
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Ancient artefacts in the Archaeological Museum in Mosul in northern Iraq have been destroyed by ISIS in recent days, behaviour that forms part of a pattern. The question is why.
Recently in Aleppo, Syria, the Jabha Shamiya militia has started carrying out a new urban warfare strategy: tunnel bombing. Aside from the human damage wrought by this tactic, it is also extremely damaging…
Iraq has a long and rich heritage, home for thousands of years to mighty empires – Assyria and Babylon, the Abbasid caliphate – that ruled the region once known as Mesopotamia, widely held as the cradle…
Several members of the cast of the film The Monuments Men made headlines for expressing the view that the British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles to Athens after their “very nice stay” of 200 years…
Vietnam has thousands of kilometres of coastline, and may have thousands of shipwrecks. Many of these wrecks would be loaded with archaeologically fascinating and significant items. But the country has…
The looting of the Baghdad Museum in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq is an example the consequences of war on national heritage. Almost a decade on, the civil war in Syria has seen history repeating itself…
The study and preservation of Australia’s neglected and decaying historic shipwrecks stands to leap in sophistication through a new multi-disciplinary project. Bringing in expertise from behavioural archaeology…
Principales colaboradores
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Research associate, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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PhD; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies, UCL
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Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History, UCL
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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Assumption College
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Post-Doctoral research fellow, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of Glasgow
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor in Archaeology, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
