Showing posts with label cultural heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural heritage. Show all posts

Monday, November 16, 2015

Le wahhabisme, l'ennemi du patrimoine

La destruction de temples et de sites archéologiques, a été souvent associée à des actes de barbarie aveugle, cependant il n’en est rien. Il n’y a rien d’aveugle dans cette destruction. Au contraire, elle est dogmatique et se trouve à l’origine même du wahhabisme.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Monday, September 28, 2015

Global initiative to boost protection of cultural heritage

Two key UN agencies and some countries on Sunday joined Interpol to launch a major new initiative to enhance the protection of cultural heritage targeted by terrorists and illicit traffickers against a backdrop of a sharp rise of terrorist attacks and destruction of cultural heritage in armed conflict.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015

UNESCO chief condemns destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple

UN, 24 August 2015 – Extremists “cannot silence history,” the Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, declared today, firmly condemning the destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, in Syria, a World Heritage site.

Ancient Palmyra: Islamic State Blows Up Ancient Temple

Syrian activists and the country's antiquities chief say the so-called Islamic State militant group has blown up an ancient temple in Palmyra, one of the the most historic sites in the Middle East.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Could Egypt recover the statue of Sekhemka?

Egypt's antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty launched on Saturday a fund raising campaign to re-buy the 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhemka, which was sold by a UK museum.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

ISIS destruction of heritage ‘most brutal since WWII’ (UNESCO)

ISIS extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the “most brutal, systematic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of the U.N. cultural agency said Friday - a stark warning that came hours after militants demolished a monastery with ancient foundations in central Syria.

Monday, July 20, 2015

France returns 32 cultural relics to Chinese museum

Thirty-two gold ornaments stolen from ancient Chinese tombs and held by French collectors were formally handed over to northwest China's Gansu Provincial Museum on Monday.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Pillage of cultural sites – how can Europe help to stop it?

 [European Parliament  / News, 14-07-2015]
"Deliberately destroying and pillaging archaeological sites and trafficking art objects in war zones amount to « cultural genocide » and should be classified as war crimes, argued speakers in a public hearing held by the European Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee on Monday afternoon. MEPs and experts reiterated the need for harmonised international legislation in this area.

Monday, July 6, 2015

Ephesus added to UNESCO World Heritage list

The ancient city of Ephesus in western Turkey has been inscribed to the World Heritage List of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).

Saturday, July 4, 2015

UNESCO Votes On Additions to World Heritage List

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Germany, said Saturday that it had designated seven cultural sites for addition to its World Heritage List.

Two of the sites are in Iran and one each in China, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia and France.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) bestows the designation to recognize global significance and to help in preservation.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Cuba, US join hands to protect Hemingway's legacy

The Cuban and the US institutions announced Saturday in Havana that they will continue to work together to protect US writer Ernest Hemingway's legacy.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

China restores 800-year-old Buddha statue with 1,000 hands

Chinese experts have completed restoration of an 800-year-old Buddha statue, famous for its 1,000 hands, located in the country’s southwest province after
seven years.

Friday, June 12, 2015

UNESCO condemns air strike on heritage site in Yemen capital

UNESCO condemned an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on Old Sanaa Friday, a heritage site in Yemen's capital it described as "one of the world's oldest jewels" of Islamic culture.

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

ISIL/ISIS Not Just Destroying Ancient Artifacts, It’s Selling them (Report)

Militants of the Takfiri group, ISIL, are not attacking ancient monuments in Iraq and Syria with jackhammers and bulldozers, but they also have been quietly selling off smaller antiquities, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

100 εκ. $ ετησίως από αρχαιοκαπηλία. (The Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk)

Το παράνομο εμπόριο αρχαιοτήτων αποτελεί μία από τις βασικές πηγές χρηματοδότησης των τζιχαντιστών του Ισλαμικού Κράτους μαζί με το πετρέλαιο και τις απαγωγές, καθώς εκτιμάται ότι η οργάνωση κερδίζει από αυτό 100 εκατομμύρια δολάρια ετησίως, σύμφωνα με τον Ιρακινό πρέσβη στον ΟΗΕ, Μοχάμεντ Αλί Αλχακίμ.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Friday, May 29, 2015

UN nations agree to action to save Iraqi cultural sites

UN member-states on Thursday declared that the destruction by jihadists of Iraqi cultural sites may amount to war crimes and agreed to take steps to curb the trade of stolen ancient artifacts.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

ISIS ‘will not destroy’ Palmyra ruins, only statues

Footage released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showed the ruins of Syria’s Palmyra untouched as the militant group claimed it only destroy statues which it deems polytheistic, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.