Cultural Heritage Sites

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  3-21-16
  

  A 3D Database of Threatened Syrian Heritage Sites

  A team of digital surveyors is working to create the world’s largest 3D database of archaeological sites in Syria, focusing on those at risk of destruction.

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• SOURCE: Al-Fanar Media
  3-15-16
  

  Czech Scholars Chart the Destruction of Mosul Heritage

  “We’ve found that 38 monuments have been either ruined or completely razed.”

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• SOURCE: Monuments of Mosul
  2-10-16 (accessed)
  

  Newly released interactive map shows images of destroyed monuments of Mosul

  The project Monuments of Mosul in Danger aims to document and research Mosul monuments that have been destroyed by ISIS since June 2014.

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• SOURCE: ARCA blog
  1-20-16
  

  Finally confirmed: ISIS destroyed Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery in 2014

  The monastery known in English as the Saint Elijah Monastery or the Dair Mar Elia, ((دير مار إيليا) has been obliterated by ISIS/ISIL sometime prior to September 28, 2014.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  11-11-15
  

  The New Monument Men Outsmart ISIS

  Founded in 2012 by Roger Michel, the Institute for Digital Archaeology is a joint effort between Harvard University and Oxford University to create an open-source database of high-resolution images and three-dimensional graphics of things like paper and papyrus documents, epigraphs and small artifacts.

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• SOURCE: Art News
  11-7-15
  

  A Look at the Full Scope of ISIS's Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites

  41 major cultural heritage sites and monuments have been lost to history thus far.