Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISIS. Show all posts
December 19, 2016

Who saves the culture of Mesopotamia and the Levant - Part I

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In the first of a series, ARCA will be highlighting some of the people on a mission to protect and/or seize back the cultural heritage of I...
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October 23, 2016

Another case for the ICC? Iconoclast who detonated the Maqam of Prophet Yunus (Jonah) confesses on tape after capture

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In Mosul's frightening and uncertain future, perhaps one bit of hopeful news may be developing.  It appears that the Iraqi Shi'ite ...
July 7, 2016

ISIS Releases Video showing its destruction of the Palmyra Museum's Artifacts.

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ISIS has released a new "heritage snuff" video that shows its destruction of the Palmyra Museum's Palmyrene funerary portrai...
March 11, 2016

Palmyra - An example of when traffic whoring and page view metrics are more important than accuracy

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In the last 72 hours I have spent a frustratingly amount of time playing  Whac-A-Mole   to bad reporting from a number of professional jour...
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February 22, 2016

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SAT 27 FEB, 2016 Symposium on Art and Terrorism The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London Saturday 27 February ...
January 20, 2016

Confirmation Saint Elijah's Monastery (دير مار إيليا), Iraq, Destroyed

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Following a request by the Associated Press earlier this month, Digital Globe, a global provider of high-resolution Earth-imagery produ...
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November 4, 2015

Recap: Erasing the Past: Da’esh and the Crisis of Antiquities Destruction

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By:  Mairead McAuliffe Wellesley College Class of 2016 Wellesley-ARCA  Global Engagement  Intern 2015 On September 24, 20...
February 26, 2015

A Museum in Mosul That Needs a Break, Not Breaking

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Today we have discouraging information on the fate of the collection of the Mosul Museum.  The museum which opened in 1951 specializes in a...