More than 48 shipwrecks have been illicitly salvaged - and the figure may be much higher. Museums can play a key role in the protection of these wrecks, alongside strategic recovery and legislative steps.
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Australia has more than 200 Big Things, from the heritage-listed Pineapple to a giant Captain Cook. What are we to do with these structures as they age and decay? And should we be building new ones?
The belief that ancient Egyptians needed help from supernatural beings to built the Giza pyramids relies, unavoidably, on racism and colonial attitudes.
As museum culture increasingly drifts into private ownership, we need to keep a watchful eye on those shaping our cultural landscape
The destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque and its minaret is a sad blow to Iraqi culture – and a rallying cry too.
The Great Mosque of Mosul - with its iconic leaning minaret - appeared on one of Iraq’s banknotes. Its destruction by the Islamic State is an act of great symbolic importance.
Archaeologists this week found that more than half of of HMAS Perth, a WWII wreck in Indonesia, has disappeared. It’s now a race to protect the millions of other wrecks and sunken cities lying under the oceans.
Who owns culture in the real-virtual world of augmented reality?
Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, is home to over a million rock artworks. But as concern grows about the impact of industrial pollution on the art, the WA government continues to play down the area’s heritage value.
An anthropologist of the American West argues that protecting nature and our cultural heritage are good for business but few recognize how they are threatened by ‘jobs-creating’ oil pipelines.
Stonehenge has a traffic problem. But building a £1.4 billion tunnel is not the answer.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can’t really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
It is important to prosecute militants who destroy antiquities. But ‘everyday’ development - from dams flooding towns to the impact of mining on Indigenous rock art – does vastly more damage to heritage than war.
Hand over your travel photos and help build digital 3D recreations of threatened heritage sites.
Tourism will have to be a key element in future peace-building and peace-keeping strategies in Syria.
Hair has long been modified for aesthetic and other ends. But skewed power structures have meant that women, particularly women of colour, have borne the brunt of stereotyping and prejudice.
Repatriation of cultural heritage is being debated at a time of mass migration – is heritage more important to countries that increasingly cannot be defined by their populations?
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
It’s lunacy to believe you own the moon, so why is cultural heritage any different? The Parthenon sculptures at least belong together.
A model Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, has been installed in London’s Trafalgar Square. Is this such a good thing?
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Historian and heritage Specialist, Deakin University
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Research fellow, University of Hull
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Research Manager, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Research fellow, University of Brighton
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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Honorary Fellow (Philosophy), Durham University
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Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Engaged Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Practice, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer In Music Literature and Research, Griffith University
