Implications of Damage to Sudanese Cultural Property
Since the start of hostilities in Sudan in April 2023, reports of looting of the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum have circulated, but recent news suggests [...]
Since the start of hostilities in Sudan in April 2023, reports of looting of the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum have circulated, but recent news suggests [...]
Ukraine's first national team of "cultural first aiders" has been established. 23 heritage professionals from 11 oblasts recently completed ICCROM's First Aid and Resilience for Cultural [...]
UNESCO has issued a recent call to help stop the trade of cultural property that has been stolen or illegally exported from Sudan during conflict. "Since [...]
On July 9, 2024, the United States lost one of its original Monuments Men when John Fiandaca, veteran of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section [...]
New research by Benjamin Isakhan, Lynn Meskell, and scholars from Arab Research and Analytics Associates surveyed 1,600 residents in the Syrian city of Aleppo about heritage [...]
In commemoration of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the International Council on Archives (ICA), the [...]
On May 28, 2024, an article detailing the history, significance, and recent destruction of Gaza's Great Omari Mosque was published in The New York Times. Titled 'Gaza's [...]
On June 4-6, 2024, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Cultural Property Advisory Committee will be meeting virtually to review four matters: 1) a request [...]
May 14, 2024 marked the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The [...]