Showing posts with label Palmyra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palmyra. Show all posts
February 23, 2023

77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer

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On February 21, 2023 the United States restituted 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen via its Embassy in Washington DC.  This marks...
January 13, 2018

INTERPOL's Most Wanted stolen works of art lists

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Image Credit INTERPOL - Works of Art Unit Every June and December, INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization publishes...
November 30, 2016

Auction Alert I: Ancient Palmyran Limestone Head Ca. 3rd-5th century A.D.?

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Two different online auction websites, Live Auctioneers and Invaluable   each have "sold" a listing for the same Palmyrene l...
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...
April 27, 2016

Russian Federal Security Service is investigating several officials and businessmen over missing funds for state-sponsored heritage restoration projects.

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On March 15, 2016 Russian state media reported that the country's Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Pirumov had been detained on embezzle...
April 13, 2016

The Road to Recovery - DGAM in Syria Issues Initial Statement Regarding its Plans for Palmyra

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This evening the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria issued a statement about their intent and vision for Palmyra and se...
March 27, 2016

Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma'ani Castle and the Exigencies of War

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Pre-Conflict Condition Image Credit: Syrian Ministry of Tourism The exigencies of war is oftentimes very unkind to mankind's cul...
March 25, 2016

March 25, 2016 Video Footage of UNESCO World Heritage Site of Palmyra

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Russian war correspondent Eugene Poddubny from  Rossiya 24 TV has posted news footage taken with a quadcopter drone while embedded with wi...
March 24, 2016

Syrian Troops Poised to Recapture Palmyra from Islamic State

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 Partial view of the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometers (133 miles) northeast of Damascus, Syria, March 14, 2014. (AFP/Joseph E...
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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August 30, 2015

Confirmed - Islamic State has Destroyed the Ancient Temple of Bel in Syria's Palmyra

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Just one day after UN training and research agency UNITAR had confirmed via satellite images that Palmyra's Baalshamin Temple was des...