Authorities recover some looted artefacts
- Finnish authorities seized a looted Ottoman-era artefact from Syria destined for Russia (يونيو 5 2015). See the IB Times report هنا.
- The BBC reports on June 5 2015 that the British Museum is safeguarding a looted Syrian artefact (no details provided) and hopes to return it to the country in the future هنا.
- A consideration of ISIS’ motivations for destroying heritage can be found in the June edition of the New York Review of Books هنا.
- Xinhua reports on items recovered by Syrian authorities (قد 27 2015) هنا.
- The Financial Times on May 23 2015 asks if we should “rethink our ideas about preserving world heritage".
- PBS reports on “How war has robbed Syria of its history” on May 19 2015.
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| Looting anticipated in Palmyra
Buzzfeed (قد 21 2015) reports that smugglers anticipate “good business” from Palmyra. انظر التفاصيل هنا. |
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| Species of Ibis in Syria threatened by conflict
The BBC reports on May 24 2015 that the Syrian conflict is threatening the survival of the Northern Bald Ibis, close to Palmyra. الاطلاع على التقرير الكامل هنا. |
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| Syrian art exhibition opens in Amsterdam
The first Syrian modern art exhibition in the Netherlands opened May 29 and will run until June 21. It features the modern art of Syrian diaspora artists. It is being held at ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat, أمستردام. شاهد المزيد, covered from Versal journal, هنا. |
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| التقارير والتحديثات من السورية المديرية العامة للآثار والمتاحف |
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| DGAM updates on Palmyra
DGAM has posted regular updates concerning the situation in Palmyra:
- The DGAM announced “cooperation initiatives” with the people of Palmyra/Tadmur on June 1 2015, drawing on close connections between the local community and the archaeological site هنا.
- DGAM posted a brief that the Palmyra site is in danger (قد 21 2015) هنا, as well as a statement that the artefacts have been moved to a safe location هنا.
- Before the ISIS capture, DGAM reported that steps have been taken to remove valuable objects to remote locations and to reinforce/bury some structures هنا (قد 16 2015). بالإضافة إلى ذلك, a statement from the Director-General was posted the same day هنا.
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DGAM sponsors educational events
- The DGAM is participating in a 10-day course in Beirut, “First Aid to Cultural Built Heritage in Syria”, which began on June 1 2015. For details, شاهد هنا.
- The DGAM held a conference between May 20 و 21 at the Damascus Museum, examining the government’s response to the heritage crisis in Syria. شاهد هنا للتفاصيل.
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| التغييرات السياسة والتحديثات من سوريا |
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Countries working to protect Syrian heritage
- US Congress bans sale of looted Syrian artefacts June 1 2015. See the report from Al Monitor هنا or US News هنا. بالإضافة إلى ذلك, Katharyn Hanson’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee can be found on video هنا.
- The anti-IS coalition meeting in Paris on June 2 2015, discussed, among other strategies, the protection of cultural heritage, reports the BBC on June 2 هنا.
- Further coverage of the “Cairo Declaration", intended to stop trade in “blood antiquities” can be found from Al-Ahram (قد 21 2015) هنا.
- UNESCO praises countries engaged in “the prohibition of cross-border trade of cultural objects from Syria and Iraq” هنا.
- New exhibit opens at the Oriental Institute, Chicago, from May 21 2015: “A Threatened Heritage”, an exhibit “made up of a series of graphic panels interspersed throughout [ال] permanent galleries, with a focus on Mesopotamia (Iraq and Syria), the Southern Levant, مصر, and Nubia.” For further details. شاهد هنا.
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UNESCO continues efforts to protect Syrian heritage
- UNESCO has provided a visual representation of its efforts to safeguard Syrian heritage via the Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage project: في مايو 27 2015 هنا.
- UNESCO calls for immediate end to fighting in and around Palmyra on May 20 2015 هنا.
- UN efforts alone are insufficient to halt antiquities smuggling, according to interviews of UNESCO experts in the Middle East Eye (يونيو 4 2014) هنا.
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| أخبار التحديثات
(غير المشمولة في أقسام أخرى) |
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Looting and destruction Syria’s heritage in the news
- The Telegraph reports on efforts by ‘digital monuments men’ to curb the trade in illegal artefacts (يونيو 6 2015).
- ناشيونال جيوغرافيك (يونيو 4 2015) reports on local efforts to guard the site of Urkesh in northern Syria هنا.
- There is ‘Method to ISIL’s vandalism madness', reports 9News (أستراليا) on June 3 2015.
- FP argues (يونيو 2 2015) that defeating IS and stopping its looting of heritage are two sides of the same coin. The article addresses the question of whether efforts should focus on protecting people or protecting artefacts:
“The focus is, as it must be, on the human tragedy. But mourning these attacks against heritage does not change that focus. As devastating as this destruction is, history warns us that worse is coming. Once you erase a people’s historical identity, the next step is to erase the people themselves.”
راجع مقالة كاملة هنا.
- The Telegraph reports that IS sets up ‘ministry of antiquities'
(قد 30 2015).
- The Washington Post discusses why IS’ attack on heritage matters (قد 29 2015) هنا.
- The Times of Israel reports on May 29 2015 that Syria is not included in a new UN General Assembly resolution designed to protect cultural heritage from IS, blaming political wrangling. For further details, شاهد هنا.
- FP reports on how IS sells its looted artefacts (قد 28 2015) هنا.
- The National reports on a group called the “Committee for Shared Culture” on May 28 2015, which it terms “a secretive organisation”. راجع مقالة هنا.
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ASOR has a general news aggregate page that can be found هنا,
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